The Creation of Poverty and Inequality in India

Poverty in India is intimately connected with caste untouchability colonialism and indentured servitude inseparable from the international experience of slavery and race.Focusing on historical and modern practices this book goes beyond traditional economic approaches to poverty and demonstrates its genesis in exclusion isolation domination and extraction resulting in the removal of human and economic rights. Examining cash and asset transfers as well as the enhancement of women’s rights primary health and education it scrutinizes inadequacies in compensatory policies for redressing the balance.This is an original interdisciplinary contribution that offers bold domestic and international policies anchored in human radicalism to eradicate poverty.