What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem. In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume points out that i
What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem. In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume points out that in order to understand poverty one must take into account the wider system of class and power relations in which it is rooted. This volume suggests that ‘democracy in India may be as big a part of the problem as it is of the solution.’
1. Jonathan Parry, Introduction: On the Persistence of Poverty in
IndiaPart I: Identifying the poor
2. Nandini Gooptu, The Construction of
Poverty and the Poor in Colonial and Post-Colonial India: An Overview
3.
Himanshu and Kunal Sen, Poverty in India: Measurement, patterns and
determinants
4. Penny Vera- Sanso, Reconceiving the Impact of Population
Change: A Class- and Gender-based Analysis of Ageing in Poverty in Urban
South India
Part II: Targeting the poor
5. Dipankar Gupta, From Poverty to Poverty:
Policies for Translating Growth into Development in India
6. Jos Mooij,
Redressing Poverty and Enhancing Social Development: Trends in Indias
Welfare Regime
Part III: Empowering the poor
7. Peggy Froerer, Poverty and Education in
Rural Chhattisgarh
8. Arild Ruud, Notions of Rights and State Benefits in
Village West Bengal
9. Indrajit Roy, Flaunted Transcripts: Shaming Elites and
Interrogating Domination in Bihar
Part IV: Controlling the poor
10. David Picherit, Neither a Dog, nor a
Beggar: Seasonal Labour Migration, Development, and Poverty in Andhra Pradesh
11. Julia Eckert, Preventive Laws and the Policing of the Urban Poor
Part V: The improving lot of the poor?
12. Surinder S. Jodhka, Whats
Happening to the Rural? Revisiting marginalities anddominance in
North-West India
13. Staffan Lindberg, Venkatesh B. Athreya, Göran Djurfeldt,
A. Rajagopal, and R. Vidyasagar,
Progress over the Long Haul: Dynamics of Agrarian Change in the Kaveri Delta
14. Barbara Harriss-White, The Dynamic Political Economy of Persistent South
Asian Poverty
15. Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, How to Govern the Poor: The Role
of Social Policies in Economic Transformation
Nandini Gooptu is Fellow of St Antonys College, Oxford, and currently Head of the Department of International Development at Oxford University. She is the author of The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early-Twentieth Century India (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and several highly acclaimed edited volumes.
Jonathan Parry is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Caste and Kinship in Kangra (Routledge 1979), Death in Banaras (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and several distinguished edited volumes.
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