About the Book

This book brings together the writings of prominent Indian academics presenting an overview of changes experienced by Indian society in the last two decades. It also presents a critique of ongoing liberalization process in India and its interface with societal arrangements. It seeks to examine globalization process by discussing it at different levels—social, economic and cultural. It also engages these issues by looking at them through different prisms and from different vantage points. Besides, it also deepens our understanding on issues such as the nature of structural transformations in caste, class and gender structure; social movements in the age of market economy; the interaction of liberalized economy with culture and religion; the relationship of developmental politics and social change; growing inequalities and poverty; and transformation of labour market with informalization of labour.

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About the Author / Editor

Prashant Kumar Trivedi is Associate Fellow at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi. His main areas of interest are Sociology of Development and Rural Studies. He also takes interest in land, women and Dalit issues. He has presented and published several papers in national and international seminars, conferences and journals of repute.

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