Uneven odds : social mobility in contemporary India / Divya Vaid.

By:

Vaid, Divya, 1979-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.Description: xv, 338 p. : illustrations, charts (black and white) ; 23 cmISBN:

9780199480142
0199480141
9780199093649
0199093644

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DDC classification:

305.5130954 Q8

Contents:

Introduction: approaching social mobility -- The Indian context: caste, gender, and the labour market -- How many classes are there? Class debates and class schemas -- How mobile is India? Social mobility patterns and trends -- Cutting through: caste and class mobility -- Mobility mechanisms: the role of education -- Conclusions: uneven odds.

Summary: This book draws on national level datasets and advanced quantitative techniques to address the question of the rate of social mobility in Indian society. It underlines the fairly stable nature of Indian society, despite liberalization, and the critical role caste, class, gender and education play in this regard.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Prime Ministers Museum and Library	305.5130954 Q8 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	183755

Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-327) and index.

This book draws on national level datasets and advanced quantitative techniques to address the question of the rate of social mobility in Indian society. It underlines the fairly stable nature of Indian society, despite liberalization, and the critical role caste, class, gender and education play in this regard.

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