Caste-Based Reservations and Human Development in India

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SAGE, 04‏/04‏/2007 - 210 من الصفحات
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the impact of caste-based reservation on human development in India, taking into consideration the time series data. Caste-Based Reservations and Human Development in India also analyzes the impact of caste-based reservations on the target groups, as well as on major human development indices. An alternative strategy of applying the democratic principle of caste-based reservation is also discussed.

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List of Tables
11
Present Status of Scheduled Castes
23
Social Linkages of Artisans with
35
The Socially and Educationally Backward Castes
42
Students in Vishakhapatnam 197780
61
Untouchability and Poverty Among Dalits
75
Caste Reservations to Remedy
93
3a Educated Matric and Above
103
Human Development Through
122
Mortality Rate in South India
133
Replace Castebased
168
Glossary
182
Index
199
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K. S. Chalam is a well-known political economist and educationist, and a former member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), New Delhi. He has been the Vice Chancellor of the Dravidian University in Andhra Pradesh and had taught in the Department of Economics, Andhra University, between 1976 and 2005. He is known as the founder of the Academic Staff College Scheme in the country and was its first director. Dr Chalam was on the Planning Board of the Madhya Pradesh government during 2002–04. He was the recipient of the UGC Young Social Scientist Award in Economics in 1984. Dr Chalam has authored Caste-Based Reservations and Human Development in India (2007, SAGE) and Economic Reforms and Social Exclusion (2011, SAGE), and edited Governance in South Asia: State of the Civil Services (2014, SAGE). He has travelled widely and has participated in and chaired sessions at various international conferences. Dr Chalam was associated with National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi, as a special rapporteur and is now Chairman, Institute for Economic and Social Justice.

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