Write An 800 Word Response To Any One Following Questions Drawing On at Least Two of The Readings Given Below Each Question

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Write an 800 word response to any one following questions drawing on at least two of the
readings given below each question.
In what ways and to what extent do social identities continue to determine access to and
types of occupations and livelihoods in India today?
Main Readings
1. Sarah Pinto. 2006. More than a Dai. Seminar Magazine February 2006.
http://www.india-seminar.com/2006/558/588%20sarah%20pinto.htm
2. Human Rights Watch. August 2014. Cleaning Human Waste: Manual Scavenging, Caste, and
Discrimination in India. In particular, Chapters 1 and 3.
http://www.hrw.org/node/128150. Or see file attached
3. David Mosse, Sanjeev Gupta, Vidya Shah. 2005 On the Margins in the city: Adivasi seasonal
migration in Western India, EPW July 9, 2005, 3025-3038.
4. Archana Prasad. 2004. Chapter 3, Tribal Livelihoods and the Agrarian Crisis, and Chapter 4,
Tribals, Forests and Globalisation. In Environmentalism and the Left: Contemporary Debates and
Future Agendas in Tribal Areas. New Delhi: Leftword Books.
5. Sripad Motiram and Ashish Singh. 2012. How Close Does the Apple Fall to the Tree? Some
Evidence from India on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility. Economic and Political Weekly
XLVII (40), October 6, 2010: 56-65.
Supplementary Readings
1. William Dalrymple. 2009. The Dancer of Kannur. Outlook October 12, 2009.
http://www.outlookindia.com/article/the-dancer-of-kannur/262062
2. Surinder S. Jodhka. Emergent Ruralities: Revisiting Village Life and Rural Change in
Haryana. Economic & Political Weekly 49.26 (2014): 5-17.
3. John Harriss, J. Jeyaranjan and K. Nagaraj. 2010. Land, Labour and Caste Politics in Rural
Tamil Nadu in the 20th Century: Iruvelpattu (1916-2008). EPW XLV (31) July 31, 2010: 47-61.
4. Jonathan P. Parry 1999. Two Cheers for Reservations: Satnamis and the Steel Plant. In
Ramachandra Guha and Jonathan P. Parry eds. Institutions and Inequalities: Essays in Honour of
Andre Beteille. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
5. Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna and Ashutosh Varshney. 2013. Caste and Entrepreneurship in
India. Economic and Political Weekly XLVIII (6) Feb 6, 2013: 52-60.
6. Sukhadeo Thorat and Nidhi Sadana. Caste and Ownership of Private Enterprises. EPW 44 (23),
June 6, 2009: 13-16.
7. Surinder S. Jodhka. 2010. Dalits in Business: Self-Employed Scheduled Castes in North-West
India. EPW XLV (11) March 13, 2010: 42-48.
8. Ashwini Deshpande, Smriti Sharma. 2013. Entrepreneurship or Survival: Caste and Gender of
Small Business in India. EPW XLVIII (28), July 13, 2013: 38-49.
Why is an understanding of ecological context and ecological impact important to the study
of livelihoods? OR In what ways are livelihoods connected to ecological context?
1. Madhu Ramnath. 2003. Tropical Deciduous Forests and the Adivasi. Indigenous Traditions as
Response to Leaf Fall in Bastar, India. Natural Resources Forum. 27: 304-309.
2.Vinay Gidwani. 2001. Laboured Landscapes: Agro-ecological Change in Central Gujarat, India.
In Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan eds Social nature: Resources, Representations, and
Rule in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp 216-247.
3. Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha. 2012. The Fight for the Forest. In This Fissured Land:
An Ecological History of India. Second edition. Oxford University Press.
4. Shankar Guha Niyogi. Our Environment: Perspective of Chattisgarh Mines Shramik Sangh.
Why has the economic growth of the past quarter century failed to address the challenge of
livelihoods?
1. Kannan, K. P., & Raveendran, G. 2009. Growth Sans Employment: A Quarter Century of
Jobless Growth in India's Organised Manufacturing. Economic and Political Weekly, 80-91.
2. Vamsi Vakulabharanam and Sripad Motiram. 2011. Political Economy of Agrarian Distress in
India since the 1990s. In Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, Stuart Corbridge and John Harriss eds
Understanding India's New Political Economy: A great transformation? Routledge, pp 101-126.
Supplementary Reading
3. Levien, M. 2013. Regimes of dispossession: from steel towns to special economic zones.
Development and Change 44(2), 381-407.

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