About the Book: Bridging the Social Gap: Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment
Bridging the Social Gap: Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment addresses four
interrelated issues. It conceptualises exclusion-linked deprivation of excluded
and indigenous groups in Indian society and elaborates the concept and meaning
of social exclusion in general, and of caste-, untouchability- and
ethnicity-based exclusion in particular. It then presents the status of
disadvantaged groups of Dalit and Adivasi and captures inter-social group
inequalities in the attainment of human development. It then goes on to analyse
factors associated with high deprivation of these disadvantaged groups in terms
of low access to resources, employment, education and social needs. Finally, it
highlights the