Marginalisation, Development and Resistance: (2 Volumes Set)

This book brings out different dimensions of discrimination, exclusion and opression suffered by Dalits (SCs) and Adivasis (STs) and the failure of the State to deliver rights and entitlements to them. The Section on Dalits comprises issues relating to distribution of land, untouchability practices, manual scavenging, atrocities including economic violence. It also covers emergence of Dalit-literature as a relatively lesser visible form of resistance against humiliation, indignities and violence of caste based social order and its ideological superstructure. The Section on Adivasis consists of different facets of their Marginalization such as disparities in human development between them and the rest of the population which remain unabridged, alienation of their land and mismatch between policy and implementation, alternative development model for them, their resistance against corporate plunder of natural resources, and the least known dimension, their exploitation, the adverse impact of excise policy on them.