SOCIAL INCLUSION OF MARGINALISED IN INDIA: State Policies and Challenges

The process of social inclusion is enmeshed with the forms and nature of social exclusion in India. The ultimate goal of social inclusion process is to establish an inclusive society. An inclusive society balances social structures and abolishes hierarchies and ensures everyone’s participation in social, economic, and political life of the nation. Social Inclusion of Marginalised in India: State Policies and Challenges unravels the in-depth processes of social exclusion, processes of implementation of inclusive policies by the state and its impacts upon the marginalised sections in India. The book includes macro-level perspectives on socially inclusive policies and micro realties of social inclusion processes at the grassroots level. Besides a crisp introduction by the editors, the book is thematically divided in five parts, viz. Perspectives on Social Exclusion/Inclusion of Marginalised; Policies for Health and Nutrition of Marginalised; Policies for Livelihood Generation of the Marginalised; Policies for Educational Development of Marginalised; and Policies for Political and Social Inclusion of Marginalised. The book will be of immense interest to researchers, policy makers, planners, practitioners, academia, and all those interested in social development of marginalised sections in India.