Blocked by Caste? - Culture, Exclusion and Deprivation

Indian society is normally a hierarchy of different castes. Caste is undoubtfully a feature of Indian society for centuries. Caste has a number of faces, dynamics, and angles. The entire Indian population has been divided into four hierarchical classes. As we are aware that solid economic mobility is an essential tool for inclusive development. Since the eleventh plan, the government is focusing on inclusive growth and inclusive society. However, we should note one thing that occupational, as well as special ability in a given Indian economic setting, has an integral factor in the caste system. Caste plays a vital role in economic viability among socially excluded people. Socially excluded people are having different discriminations associated with the hierarchical aspect of the caste system which has a direct linkage to the labor market which is a threat to have discrimination in the labor market in the long run. There is a convergence between upper caste and lower caste sections regarding quality education, skill and activities and adversely people from the lower caste will end with the low level of occupations, unskilled occupations leading towards continuous poverty and other related issues. This book will be useful to the policy maker's researcher's university teachers and to the general public.

Dr. D.C. Nanjunda is currently working as Associate Professor in the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy. University of Mysore, India. He has done Ph.D., in Anthropology from Mysore University. India. He has few years of experience in research in various fields of inclusion issues. He has published noted research papers and edited few books also. He has served as a member in various non academic committees. His research interest has been in the field of Public health, sociology and developmental anthropology.

The thought of caste system in India is introduced by Vedas; the Vedas are the basic pillars of the Hindu religion. The fundamental basis of Hindu religion is its caste system a tight stratified society based on Varna system. The Varnas which are regarded as initial castes of Hindu religion namely, Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra categorized on vertical line which does not allowed upward movement of people of the particular Varna i.e., Dalits. In 21st century caste has different Avatars as MN Srinivas The pioneer of Indian sociology said. Here the birth order caste being a major roler in social exclusion process In India we have to two types exclusions. Case based exclusions and sectoral base exclusion. People who belongs to the downtrodden community are being faced exclusion in education, health participation governance except. Here again caste plays a major role. Poverty and exclusion have reinforcing each other. Today The idea of social exclusion offers novel resources to recognize comparisons, in both debates about poverty and exclusion. The idea of multiple deprivations in social exclusion captures an important reality and addresses the issues simultaneously be both poverty and exclusion. So far there is no prescribed norm to measure social exclusion, but various scholars have suggested that it can be measured by some indicators in the modern era, including low educational attainment, discrepancy in accessing education, long term unemployment, joblessness, low income, lack of detailed amenities, incapability to obtain health services and civic services, homelessness, poor environment, lack of social participation, life expectancy and so on. This book is based on the papers submitted by the various experts in various journals running by a Regd. Trust.

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