DURABLE INEQUALITIES : Contextualising Caste-Exclusion Marginalisation and Reservation in India’s North-East

About The Book:- Durable Inequalities in Indias North-east is the first work on contextualization of casteexclusion migration and reservation policy. Despitethe constitutional safeguardsmost of the Dalits facing violence and injustices particularly in rural areasof India and this is also the case with Indias North-east. The very important issue of having the right to reservation for certain people who are in Indians northeast have habitually and by their nature lived in a very backward condition. They are living in a socially isolated life and are not at all accepted in any other space of survival. These people are mostly dependent on their traditional menial works and dont have any socioeconomic and political opportunities to raise their status to come forward in outside the world. Even after getting good education in the Indias North-east SCs are seen largely engaged in low grade jobs. So far the study and the Government of India Census is concerned they are the worst sufferer and facing multiple discrimination and exclusion in Indias North-east since independence. About The Author:- Dr. Chunnu Prasad trained as a Social Scientist and Socio-Political Activist. Presently he is working as an Academic Officer Academic Department National Institute of Open Schooling Department of Education and Literacy Ministry of Human Resource Development Government of India. He authored Indias Refugee Regime and Resettlement Policy; Chakmas and the Politics of Nationality in Arunachal Pradesh. His interest area is Migration Refugees Dalits Triba Is Eth nicity Movements Religion Human Rights and Sexuality. He has contributed more than fifty articles in referred journals and in edited books. He worked with various Government and Non-Government Organizations viz. NATRSS ISSR liDS and CPS/JNU New Delhi over a period of time. He has presented number of papers in national and international conferences/ seminars/workshops in India and abroad. He has been award