Impact of Economic Reform Policies on Dalit and Weaker Sections

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. India's economic reform and its social dimension/Shrawan Kumar Singh. 2. Impact of economic reforms on poverty and workforce structure among social groups with reference to rural India/Kumar Ratnesh and Binay Kumar Singh. 3. Impact of economic reform policies on the Indian economy/R.N. Singh, Upendra Sharma and Chitranjan Ojha. 4. Prospects of economic empowerment of tribals through value addition of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) in Jharkhand/B.K. Jha and R.K. Marandi. 5. Economic reforms and status of Dalits/Surendra Prasad Saha and Binod Kumar Chaudhary. 6. Impact of globalization on Dalits/Rashmi Akhoury. 7. Changing pattern of 'Kamioti' system with special reference to Musahar community/Sanjay Kumar and Bipin Prasad Singh. 8. Economic reform and empowerment of women: issues, options and concerns/Ranju Ranjan Kumari and Krishna Nand Yadav. 9. Empowerment of women in Bihar/Ram Naresh Thakur. 10. The Dalit in India: caste and social class/Hari Narayan Prasad Singh. 11. Impact of economic reform policy on weaker sections and Dalits/S.K.L. Das. 12. Problems of child labour under globalisation/Sukhmani Das and Meera Ranjan Lal. 13. Economic reform and child labour/Birendra Kumar Jha. 14. Economic reforms and child labour/Md. Reyazuddin. 15. Impact of reforms on child labour/Pashupati Ray and Shambhu Prasad Sah. 16. Economic reforms and child labour/Umesh Prasad and Binod Choudhary. 17. Reforms and child labour/Jagdish Prasad and Rajesh Kumar. 18. Female child labour and economic reforms/Mridula Kumari. 19. Child labour in India: dimensions, issues and policies/Ram Kumari Devi. 20. Economic reforms and women empowerment: a view point. 21. Empowerment of women after fifty years of independence: where do they stand?/Chandra Prakash Azad and Chandra Prakash Singh. 22. Empowering women through legal and government based approaches in India/Manoj Shankar Gupta. 23. Economic empowerment of women/Padmini Prasad. 24. Empowerment of Muslim women/Md. Imeteyaz Hassan. 25. Empowerment of Dalits: a socio-political analysis/M. Alamgeer. 26. Bihar in a state of despair/S.K. Jha and Nand Kumar. 27. Child labour in India: an emerging issue/Sheela Sharan Singh. 28. Women's empowerment through Panchayati Raj Institutions: some problems and prospects. 29. Impact of economic reforms on Dalits/Anil Kumar Thakur, Ashwani Kumar and K.B. Padamdeo. Index.

"The themes of this book include the concept, various analysis of policies made under the globalisation suited and not suited for the Dalit and weaker sections of society. The Dalits, Adivasis, minorities, women and backward castes are seen and treated as second class citizen still now. Though empowerment of Dalits, SCs, STs, OBCs, women and minorities are being held but still they are far behind in the stream of development. The policies are made for their upliftment, but they become unable to be real beneficiaries of those policies.

This book will be fruitful for those oppressed, depressed and down-trodden sections of society as well as for them who show their real or mechanical sympathy for them." (jacket)