ABOUT THE BOOK
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Towards Social
Justice brings together papers from various perspectives of the
Humanities and Social Sciences on different issues related to the impact
of positive discrimination on marginalised communities with special reference
to Scheduled Caste-groups in India.
This book
contains some of the articles presented at a national seminar organised by the
ICSSR, North Eastern Regional Centre and tries to address the question of how
the well-being of the Scheduled Caste population can be promoted, with emphasis
on the North-Eastern region to enable them to live a dignified life. Has the
policy of positive discrimination worked? Do the states implement the
reservation policy for the SCs in letter and spirit? How effective is the
SC and ST Commission in removing the social, economic and political deprivation
of the Scheduled Castes? This book will be of great help to the
government, both at the Centre and the States, while making policies for the
marginalized groups to empower them.
ABOUT Author
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Dr. Joshua Thomas is Deputy
Director at the ICSSR North Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong and Coordinator,
ASEAN Studies Centre, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India,
Shillong. He is known for his pioneering research in diverse fields of social
sciences in North-East India. His areas of interest include issues related to
ethnicity, insurgency, peace process, border trade, displacement, protective
discrimination and India`s relations with neighbouring countries, particularly
with Bangladesh, China and Myanmar. Some of his co-authored and co-edited books
include Act East and India`s North-East (with K. Sarda, 2017: Pentagon Press,
New Delhi); Look East to Act East Policy—Implications for India`s Northeast
(with Gurudas Das, 2016: Routledge, New Delhi); Society, Representation
and Textuality: The Critical Interface (with Sukalpa Bhattacharjee; Sage
Publications, New Delhi, 2013); and Polity & Economy: Agenda for
Contemporary North-East India (ed., Regency Publications, New Delhi,
2005). He is the Managing Editor of Man and Society—A Journal of
North-East Studies.
Dr.
Padmakshi Kakoti is Research Associate at Indian Council of Social Science Research,
North Eastern Regional Centre (ICSSR-NERC), Shillong. She is currently
engaged in a research project funded by the ICSSR, New Delhi on Positive
Discrimination in the North-East. Her research interests include Medieval
Indian History and Socio-economic, cultural and religious history of Assam.