Ground down by growth : tribe, caste, class and inequality in twenty-first-century India / Alpa Shah...[et al.].

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TextLanguage: English Series: Anthropology, culture and societyPublication details: London : Pluto, 2018.ISBN:

9780745337685

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Tribe, caste, class and inequality in twenty-first-century India

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Summary: Why has India’s 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 India’s ‘untouchables’ and ‘tribals’ fit into the global economy. 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.

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Print List(s) this item appears in: Global Library New Arrivals February 2026

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First published 2018 by Pluto Press.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index.

Why has India’s 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 India’s ‘untouchables’ and ‘tribals’ fit into the global economy. 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.

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