Comprehending Equity (eBook, ePUB)

Contextualising India's North-East
Redaktion: Kikhi, Kedilezo; Gautam, Dharma Rakshit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book interrogates the idea of equity in the context of India's Northeast region. The region comprises of diverse ethnicities heralding different socio-political and historical contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000442663
• Artikelnr.: 62338141

Autorenporträt

Kedilezo Kikhi is currently Chair Professor, Dr. Ambedkar Chair, and Professor at the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, Assam. He completed his post-graduate degree and PhD from North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. He is credited with several publications in national and international journals, dailies, texts and reference books for tertiary as well as school education. Two of his most notable books include India's Northeast - Nagaland: Vibrant Ethnic Communities in Transition and The Dynamics of Development in Northeast India. Dharma Rakshit Gautam is currently Research Officer and Assistant Professor, Dr. Ambedkar Chair at Tezpur University, Assam. He did his post-graduation from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, and completed research degrees (MPhil and PhD) at National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi. Some of his publications include articles, chapters and a book titled, Education Among scheduled Castes.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Foreword. 1.
Introduction: Equity and differing contexts in Northeast India Section I:
The Concept and Context 2. Social equity: A conceptual note 3.
Understanding equity and equality: Some conceptual and pragmatic
considerations 4. Equity: A crucial debate in contemporary India 5. Equity
and ethnic politics in north east India Section II: Ethnicity, Development
and Governance 6. Politics of identity formation in Sikkim: An insider's
view 7. Ethnicity, food security and deprivation: The marginalised hill
people and distributive (in)justice in Manipur 8. When boundaries matter:
Land, laws and territorial conflict in Manipur 9. Ensuring social justice
in tribal society: Reservation of women in the local bodies of Mizoram 10.
Equity, reciprocity and environmental ethics: Comparative study of
agricultural practices vis-à-vis sustainable development among the tribes
of northeast India Section III: Tangle of Subjugation: Women & Religious
Minority 11. Demystifying sex work: Questions of social equity 12.
Locating women within ethnic movements: A case of Assam 13. Pangals in
Manipur: A community symbolising disadvantaged status in the state Section
IV: Domain of Education 14. Financing of school education in north-eastern
states of India 15. Classroom as a site of exclusion in massified higher
education in India 16. Brewing knowledge in university: Just add northeast
and stir. Index.