TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thorat ,Sukhadeo
AU  - Kumar ,Narender
TI  - In search of inclusive policy: : addressing graded inequality 
SN  - 9788131601624
U1  - 305.56 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Jaipur
PB  - Rawat Publications
KW  - Dalit studies
KW  - People with social disabilities -- India
KW  - Education and state -- India
N1  - Introduction : graded inequality and inclusive policy : an overview / Sukhadeo Thorat and Narender Kumar --
I. Discrimination, deprivation and inclusive policy --
1. Paying the social debt / Sukhadeo Thorat --
2. Caste, inequality and affirmative action / Andre Beteille --
3. Caste indignities and subjected personhoods / A.R. Vasavi --
4. The eternal debate / Ashwini Deshpande --
5. Reservation and social justice / Ambrose Pinto --
6. Positive discrimination : a political analysis / Partha S. Ghosh --
II. Size of OBCs --
7. On backwardness and fair access to higher education / K. Sundaram --
8. Identifying other backward classes / A. Ramaiah --
9. Underrepresentation in colleges : what do the data tell us? / Rana Hasan and Aashish Mehta --
10. Assumptions and arithmetic of caste-based reservations / Rohini Somanathan --
III. Alternative equal opportunity policies --
11. Redesigning affirmative action / Satish Deshpande and Yogendra Yadav --
12. Three myths about reservations / Neera Chandhoke --
13. Affirmative action : experiments in the former Soviet Union / Japan and America and Dipak Basu --
14. Indian toiler should reject the framework of reservation / Kranti Kumara and Keith Jones --
IV. Why reservation for OBCs? --
15. Case for caste-based quotas in higher education / Jayati Ghosh --
16. Reservation without reservation / T. Pradeep --
17. Equality with social justice / R. Arun Kumar --
18. Merit of reservation / Kancha Ilaiah --
19. Why reservation for OBCs is a must? / V.B. Rawat --
V. State and equal opportunity policies --
20. Moments in the history of reservation / Bhagwan Das --
21. Equality in higher education : the impact of affirmative action policies / S. Srinivas Rao --
22. Reservation and casteism / C.P. Bhambhri --
VI. Debating merit --
23. Exclusive inequalities : merit, caste and discrimination in higher education / Satish Deshpande --
24. Merit is my mother tongue / Kancha Ilaiah --
25. The question of merit / Sandeep Pandey --
26. The sociology of merit / Amman Madan --
27. Democracy, disagreement and merit / Pratap Bhanu Mehta --
VII. Better-off, worse-off and creamy layer --
28. Examining the creamy layer principle / S. Subramanian --
29. Creamy layer principle : a comment / K. Sundaram --
30. Demystifying the anti-creamy layer / K. Ravi Srinivas --
31. A reply to Sundaram and Ravi Srinivas / S. Subramanian
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