Apurva Apurva, Sociology, publishes a peer-reviewed article in the journal Artha Vijnana: Journal of the Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics titled “Discovering Boundaries, Building Dialogues: Historical Sociology, Economics, and the Evolution of the Dominant Caste in Western India.
Article Abstract: The paper challenges mainstream economists’ ideas that economic growth and productivity in the neoliberal framework can reduce inequality and alleviate poverty. Using the lens of historical sociology, it demonstrates that at the present conjuncture, belonging to a dominant caste of a region may not necessarily yield economic benefits. In fact, economic chasm and differentiation within a caste group appear to have widened. Only those groups within the dominant caste have achieved upward class mobility whose land happened to crisscross neoliberal agendas of urban zoning and spacing. To build an interdisciplinary dialogue, this paper invites economists to observe a complicated and contradictory picture full of unresolved caste and class predicaments as economic liberalization unfolds in India.
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