• ISBN13: 9780199485062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: August 12, 2017
• Pages: 304
• Original Price: INR 850.0
• Language: N/A
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams

Why has India’s astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India’s ‘untouchables’ and ‘tribals’ fit into the global economy. Ground Down by Growth reveals the impact of global capitalism on their lives. It shows how capitalism entrenches, rather than erases, social difference and has transformed traditional forms of identity-based discrimination into new mechanisms of exploitation and oppression.

Alpa Shah is Associate Professor in Anthropology at LSE, UK.

Jens Lerche is Reader in Labour and Agrarian Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK.

Richard Axelby is a Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS.

Dalel Benbabaali is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Area Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

Brendan Donegan is a Visiting Fellow in Anthropology at LSE.

Jayaseelan Raj is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Development Studies in Kerala, India.

Vikramaditya Thakur is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Delaware, USA.