with regard to caste and class and the exclusion of the creamy layer, or the well-off, among them. Controversies apart, OBC … government jobs for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in India. It discusses the progression and ramifications of these policies … Independence. Most of the disputes relate to the classification of beneficiaries in terms of social and economic discrimination …

This paper considers the effects of contemporary restructuring of women and men’s employment in rural south India … alongside ongoing efforts to recast India’s poor rural women as entrepreneurs. This study takes advantage of data from the …