Persistence of Poverty in India

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: On the Persistence of Poverty in India -- Part I: Identifying the Poor -- 2. The Construction of Poverty and the Poor in Colonial and Post-Colonial India: An Overview -- 3. Measurement, Patterns and Determinants of Poverty -- 4. Reconceiving the Impact of Population Change: A Class and Gender-based Analysis of Ageing in Poverty in Urban South India -- Part II: Targeting the Poor -- 5. From Poverty to Poverty: Policies for Translating Growth into Development -- 6. Redressing Poverty and Enhancing Social Development: Trends in India's Welfare Regime -- Part III: Empowering the Poor -- 7. Poverty and Education in Rural Chhattisgarh -- 8. Notions of Rights and State Benefits in Village West Bengal -- 9. Flaunted Transcripts: Shaming Elites and Interrogating Domination in Bihar -- Part IV: Controlling the Poor -- 10. Neither a Dog, Nor a Beggar: Seasonal Labour Migration, Development, and Poverty in Andhra Pradesh -- 11. Preventive Laws and the Policing of the Urban Poor -- Part V: The Improving Lot of the Poor? -- 12. What's Happening to the Rural? Revisiting 'Marginalities' and 'Dominance' in North-West India -- 13. Progress over the Long Haul: Dynamics of Agrarian Change in the Kaveri Delta -- 14. The Dynamic Political Economy of Persistent Poverty -- 15. How to Govern the Poor: The Role of Social Policies in Economic Transformation

• | Author: Nandini Gooptu, Jonathan Parry
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jul 18, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 446 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 113809966X
• | ISBN-13: 9781138099661