Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Social exclusion and the methodological dichotomies
  • Economic reforms and the socially excluded groups in India
  • Emergence of caste as property under liberalization
  • Impact of reforms on scheduled castes
  • Liberalization and the Adivasi development
  • Marginalization of rural artisans and Muslims
  • Handloom weavers under liberalization: a case study
  • Exit policy and the welfare of the working classes
  • Inequity in the development of human capital and alienation in higher education
  • Public health services and the poor
  • Civil society responses to economic reforms: a case study of temperance movement
  • In lieu of conclusion.