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Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India

Why has Indias astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how Indias untouchables' and tribals' fit into the global economy.

Indias Dalit and Adivasi communities make up a staggering one in twenty-five people across the globe and yet they remain amongst the most oppressed. Conceived in dialogue with economists, Ground Down by Growth reveals the impact of global capitalism on their lives. It shows how capitalism entrenches, rather than erases, social difference and has transformed traditional forms of identity-based discrimination into new mechanisms of exploitation and oppression.

Through studies of the working poor, migrant labour and the conjugated oppression of caste, tribe, region, gender and class relations, the social inequalities generated by capitalism are exposed. See more
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  • Weight: 446g
  • Dimensions: 150 x 230mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Nov 2017
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780745337685

About Alpa ShahBrendan DoneganDalel BenbabaaliJayaseelan RajJens LercheRichard AxelbyVikramaditya Thakur

Alpa Shah is Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology at LSE. She is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017) and In the Shadows of the State Indigenous Politics Environmentalism and Insurgency in Jharkhand India (Duke 2010). She has also written about affirmative action labour migration agrarian change and India and Nepal's Maoist inspired revolutionary struggles. Jens Lerche is Reader in Labour and Agrarian Studies at SOAS University of London. He has published on low castes rural and migrant labour and agrarian relations in India for more than two decades. He is editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change and the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017). Richard Axelby is a Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS. His writing focuses on environmental history natural resource management science in colonial India British identity and development work. He is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017). Dalel Benbabaali is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Area Studies at the University of Oxford. She has previously taught at LSE and the Sorbonne University. She is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017). Brendan Donegan is a Visiting Fellow in Anthropology at LSE. He previously held positions at SOAS and Goldsmiths where he taught courses in Social Anthropology and Development Studies. He is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017). Vikramditya Thakur is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Delaware. Completing his PhD in Anthropology at Yale University he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at London School of Economics and Brown University. His research on the Bhils of western India addresses forced displacement resettlement agrarian transformation and ecological changes. He is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017). Jayaseelan Raj is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Development Studies in Kerala. He completed his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Bergen before joining LSE as a postdoctoral fellow. He has conducted long term fieldwork on Dalit and Adivasis in the tea plantations of South India and on their land struggles. He is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto 2017).

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