Political economy of class, caste and gender : a study of rural Dalit labourers in India

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    • Mehrotra, Ishita

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Political economy of class, caste and gender : a study of rural Dalit labourers in India

Ishita Mehrotra

Routledge, 2022

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-208) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

1. This book examines the agrarian transformation in India from the point of view of Gender in particular, and deals with processes witnessed across the global South - rural distress, deagrarianisation, depeasantisation, migration, feminisation of agriculture, identity based inequalities in rural labour markets etc. 2. It contains latest empirical data on rural Dalit labourers 3. The book will be of interest to departments of South Asian studies and Political economy across UK and USA.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Who Is a Labourer? Reconceptualising and Understanding the Agrarian Question of Labour Today 3 Are All Peasants Even? Mapping Occupational Patterns and Hierarchies 4 Subsidising Patriarchal Capitalism: Labour Relations of Dalit Women 5 Negotiating for Every Penny: Labour Resistance and Struggle 6 Conclusion References Index

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