Inequality in India

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Book Review

A Call to Understand, Feel, and Act

Bela Bhatia fervently urges privileged groups to recognise and respond to the struggles of the marginalised. She acknowledges caste’s influence, but does not fully confront its pervasive role,…
▶13-Feb-2025
Gita Ramaswamy

Towards Tax Justice and Wealth Redistribution in India

Inequality levels have reached historical highs under the Billionaire Raj. These extreme inequalities and their close links with social injustices can no longer be ignored. A comprehensive wealth tax…
▶21-May-2024
Nitin Kumar Bharti, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Anmol Somanchi
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SYMPOSIUM ON 2022-23 CONSUMPTION DATA

Poverty in India Over the Last Decade

The Fact Sheet from the 2022-23 NSO survey suggests that poverty has sharply declined. A careful examination of the claim leads to the conclusion that until the unit-level data is available and…
▶10-Apr-2024
Maitreesh Ghatak, Rishabh Kumar
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Symposium on 2022-23 Consumption Data

The Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23

The 2022-23 NSO survey tells us that welfare, inequality and poverty have improved since 2011-12. Considering all other data and developments of recent years, it would appear that either the 2022-23…
▶03-Apr-2024
S Subramanian

An X-Ray of India’s Compassion

The politics of precarity and heightened socio-economic inequality erodes our compassion. The politics of prejudice and the treatment of minorities corrodes it.
▶30-Jan-2024
Rajendran Narayanan
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Book Review

Do India’s Urban Poor Have a Distinct Politics of Their Own?

To counter the exclusionary nature of the state, the urban poor have to constantly develop new tactics to claim citizenship and welfare benefits.
▶14-Mar-2023
Chavali Phanisri Soumya
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Book Review

India’s Growth Trajectory: Insiders and Outsiders

‘India is Broken’ indicts all but a few from the political leadership for India’s economic failures. Does it fail to account for the challenges of building unity in a segmented society? Does it under…
▶06-Mar-2023
Sukumar Muralidharan

Trends in Economic Inequality in India

There has been an increase in economic inequality in India over the past few decades, with the rich-poor gaps among the largest of several peer economies. Household surveys show that alongside the…
▶19-Sep-2022
Maitreesh Ghatak, Ramya Raghavan, Linchuan Xu

What is Happening to Rural Welfare, Poverty, and Inequality in India?

An analysis of the draft NSO report that the Government has decided not to put out shows a deterioration in 2017-18 in consumption and poverty levels in rural India. The reasons may be the…
▶27-Nov-2019
S Subramanian