Catastrophes in India's Social Landscape: Its Society and Covid-19 Pandemic

The volume of this edited book is to shed light on the major catastrophes that outbreak in the education, health, and other underprivileged sectors of India's socio-economic landscape during and post-COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 has unleashed unprecedented economic and social hardship around the world. The abrupt and extremely harsh response to COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated social and economic deprivations and inequalities in India. COVID-19 crisis and the "lockdown" has worst impact in terms of workload and reduced economic opportunities, lack of access to health facilities, nutrition and increase in incidence of gender-based violence, communalization and racialization along with stigma associated with COVID-19. The editors anticipate that the diversity of work, insights, and perspectives shared by the contributors will be beneficial and will draw the attention of policymakers, academicians, activists, practitioners, and researchers to further studies, practises, and opportunities.