SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND CASTE IN INDIA: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY

An Empirical Study of Export and Economic Growth in India since 1960: A Co integration Analysis

An Analytical Study of FDI in India

Foreign Direct investment plays a very important role in the development of the nation. Sometimes domestically available capital is inadequate for the purpose of overall development of the country. Foreign capital is seen as a way of filling in gaps between domestic savings and investment. India can attract much larger foreign investments than it has done in the past. The present study has focu...

Caste versus Class: Social Mobility in India, 1860- 2012

Using surname distributions, we compare long run social mobility rates for elite and underclass groups in India 1860-2012, with those of other societies such as Sweden and the USA. It is not clear whether recent social mobility rates in India should be higher or lower than in the West. The caste system notoriously embedded privilege in elite castes. But since Independence a quota of places in h...

Poverty in Rural India: Caste and Tribe*

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty in SC and ST households is much higher than among non-scheduled households. By combining regression estimates for the ratio of per capita expenditure to the poverty line and an Oaxaca-typ...

Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty in SC and ST households is significantly higher than among non-scheduled households. Using a probit decomposition analysis, we break down the difference in poverty incidence between the s...