Marginal Communities: Issues and Challenges

Contents: 1 Marginal Communities: An Introduction/Jagan Karade. 2 Marginalized Communities: Development and Deprivation/S. Gurusamy. 3 Performance of Social Security for the Weaker Section in Economic and Post-Economic Reform in India/Jayashree Ambewadikar. 4 An Analysis of Labour Migration in India/ P.S. Kamble. 5 Development-Induced Dispossession and Continuous Deprivation of Marginalized Communities in India/Sampat Kale. 6 Socio-Economic and Demographic Correlates of Migrants in India: In Perspective of Cycle Rickshaw Pullers/Naresh Kumar. 7 Left Behind in Digital Era: The Case of Digital Exclusion/ Jagan Karade and Kuldeep Singh Rajput. 8 Housing the Urban Poor in North-Western India: A Case of State-Induced Segregation in Selected Metropolitan Towns/Manoj Kumar Teotia. 9 Social Integration and Development of Denotified 195 Nomadic Tribes in Post-Independence India/Sanjay Kolekar. 10 Marginalization and Exclusion of Sugarcane Cutter Migrant Labour/Prashant Bansode. Marginalization is a multidimensional, multicausal, historical phenomenon. In Indian society, there are many marginal communities which are victims of the prevailing social milieu. Besides Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and women, this includes, rural poor, manual workers in unorganized sectors, sex workers, transgenders, blue-collar workers, old age people, child labourers, migrant population, urban poor, slum-dwellers, differently-abled persons and others in the category of religious and linguistic minority groups. These communities are given very low position in social strata and are subjected to all types of exploitation, discrimination, disparities, oppression, violence, civil rights violation, ill-treatment and deprivations. This volume is a collection of articles on the marginal communities covering different perspectives of their issues, problems and challenges. All contributors have focused on common thinking on marginalized communities because the nation cannot achieve the target of inclusive development without the development of marginal communities.…