Development of Scheduled Caste/Anil Bhuimali. New
Delhi, Serials Pub., 2007, viii, 218 p., tables, ISBN 81-8387-123-5.
Development of Scheduled Caste/Anil Bhuimali. New
Delhi, Serials Pub., 2007, viii, 218 p., tables, ISBN 81-8387-123-5.
Contents: 1. Introductory overview. 2. Discrimination and inequality: theoretical reflections/D.K. Verma. 3. On the status and well-being of Rural Agrarian Women in India: the influence of socio-economic and socio-cultural factors/Hillol Kumar Chakrabarti. 4. Income inequality and poverty among scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in selected states in India/Maniklal and Adhikary. 5. Gandhi, Jinnah and Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar: reflections on their role in the nation-making of India/I. Sarkar. 6. Development and empowerment of disadvantaged people of India/Anil Bhuimali. 7. Disadvantaged migrant people on Balasan River Bed/Samar Kumar, Biswas and Somenath Bhattacharjee. 8. Development of primary education among scheduled castes in Andhra Pradesh/D. Pulla Rao. 9. Rights and privileges of the scheduled castes community of India/Tapan Kumar Ghosh. 10. Genesis of scheduled castes and constitutional safeguards for them/Sidhartha Sankar Laha and Anil Bhuimali. 11. Literacy rate among the scheduled castes with reference to West Bengal/Biplab Chakraborty. 12. His and her syndrome in political reservation of women: an analysis in the present socio-legal framework/Biswajit Chatterjee. 13. Scheduled caste women in decision-making: a study of Darjeeling Municipal administration/Padam Nepal and Namrata Pariyar. Index.
"The Indian Society is based on Caste System which is, in fact, a two-tier construction i.e. upper caste and lower caste. The Caste System alienated a large part of our society from the mainstream. The division of society according to privileges enjoyed by the people paints carefully the picture of social exploitation of a community by another community. The present edited book is an attempt to describe differently development aspects of Scheduled Caste. Different aspects such as discrimination and inequality, well-being of rural women, income inequality, contribution of some social reformers in the nation-making, development and empowerment, disadvantaged migrants, primary education, constitutional safeguards, literacy, political reservation and the role of Scheduled Caste Women in decision-making have well been documented by social scientists. This is a timely publication in the sense that it has presented some thought-provoking papers relevant for understanding the issue of reservation especially for the most disadvantaged in the community. It cannot be denied that in a country like ours some form of affirmative action is unavoidable to eradicate various forms of social, cultural and economic backwardness." (jacket)