Blocked by caste : economic discrimination in modern India / edited by Sukhadeo Thorat, Katherine S. Newman with a foreword by Kaushik Basu.

This volume argues that the Indian society is characterized by multiple forms of discrimination and exclusion that create profound barriers to upward mobility and freedom from structures of deprivation. The essays study widespread patterns of discrimination and underlying attitudinal orientations th...

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Other Authors: Thorat, Sukhadeo (Editor), Newman, Katherine S., 1953- (Editor), Basu, Kaushik (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012, 2010.
Series:Oxford India paperbacks.
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