Bridging the social gap: perspectives on Dalit empowerment/ 
edited by Sukhadeo Thorat, Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal 
 - Los Angeles:  SAGE,  2014. 
 - xxvii, 279 p. 
<br/><br/>Exclusion, deprivation and human development: Conceptual framework to study excluded groups / Sukhadec Thorat, Arjan de Haan and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal --<br/>Government policy against discrimination and for empowerment / Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal --<br/>Exclusion and discrimination: The contemporary scenario / Sukhadeo Thorat and Prashant Negi --<br/>Human development and human poverty by social groups / Sukhadeo Thorat and S. Venkatesan --<br/>Levels and patterns of consumption expenditure of social groups / Ashwini Deshpande --<br/>Levels and disparities in poverty / Arjan de Haan and Amaresh Dubey --<br/>Literacy and education levels / Sachidanard Sinha --<br/>Housing and household amenities / Sachidanand Sinha --<br/>Health and nutritional status / Vijay Kumar Baraik and P.M. Kulkarni --<br/>Occupational pattern / M. Thagaraj --<br/>Access to agricultural land and capital assets / R.S. Deshpande and Motilal Mahamallik --<br/>Employment and unemployment situation: Rural and urban / Sukhadeo Thorat and Chittaranjan Senapti --<br/>Reservation and share in public employment / Sukhadeo Thorat and Chittaranjan Senapati --<br/>The road ahead: Dalits in the new milennium / Sukhadeo Thorat and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788132113119 9789351504146 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dalits--Economic conditions<br/>Dalits--Social conditions<br/>Caste<br/>Discrimination