This book examines the multi-layered aspects and the complexities of inclusive development in South Asia based on recent data and using innovative methodology.
The book offers an analysis of the existing ground realities in terms of economic and inclusive development, presenting relevant discussion and findings. It discusses lower castes, tribes, religious/ethnic minorities, and other socially vulnerable people, as well as gender, rural–urban, and educational disparities in South Asia, and highlights that all these issues are interrelated. Structured in two parts―Spatial Dimensions, Labour, and Migration, and Social Dimensions and Beyond Inclusion―the chapters present emerging new concepts related to socio-economic and inclusive development and use effective and valid methods and methodology covering the ground realities-based information and secondary data-based analysis. Evaluating the extent to which inclusive development has been realised in South Asia, the contributors explore a new approach towards the concept of ‘inclusiveness’ by drawing on the experiences of the diverse societies in South Asia.
An immensely useful contribution to the analysis of different economic and social issues in different countries in South Asia, focusing on inclusivity, this book will be of interest to researchers working on South Asian Politics and Development Economics.
Author(s): Toshie Awaya, Kazuo Tomozawa
Series: Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 361
City: London
Cover
Half Title
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Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Maps
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction: ‘Inclusive Development’ in South Asia
Part 1 Spatial Dimensions, Labour, and Migration
1 Three Spatial Layers of the Indian Economy: Regional Disparities, Industrial Locations, and Labour Market
2 Regional Diversity of Work Opportunities and New Economic Space in India
3 The Burgeoning Small Towns of India: Lessons for Inclusive Development
4 Education System and Economic Development in Rural Bangladesh: A Comparative Study Between Remote and Suburban Rural Villages
5 Mobility Between Formal and Informal Sectors and Inclusiveness: A Study of Ahmedabad
6 Indian Migration and Labour Markets
7 International Migration From India and the GCM: Inclusion and Exclusion in South Asia?
Part 2 Social Dimensions and Beyond Inclusion
8 Higher Education and the Future of Social Inequality in India
9 Education to Include the First Educated Generation in an Unequal Society in Bangladesh
10 Becoming Dalit: Ambedkarite Movements and Inter-caste Marriages in and Around Nagpur
11 Do ‘Islamic Norms’ Impede Inclusive Development of Women?: A Case Study of Islamic Education for Women in Rural Bangladesh
12 From ‘Failed Development’ to ‘Inclusive Development’?: Views of Ethnic/Caste Minority Women
13 Destitution in Old Age: Living Through Asymmetrical Relations
14 Universal Basic Income and Land Rights for Women: An
Anti-capitalist Critique
Index
