This book provides a comprehensive view of intergenerational mobility in the context of religious and caste dynamics in India. It is aimed at researchers in the field of economics, sociology, labour studies, development studies, minority and subaltern studies, & socioeconomics of disadvantaged socio-religious groups in India.
Nawazuddin Ahmed received his PhD from IIT Roorkee, India, and is currently Assistant Professor of Economics at the Symbiosis School of Economics, Pune, Symbiosis International (a Deemed University), Pune, India. His research focuses on development and labor, and he has published on the impact of family background, occupational shifts and mobility.
Dinesh Kumar Nauriyal is Senior Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. He has published widely, and his recent publication includes Migration, Gender and Home Economics in Rural North India (co-authored with Nalin S. Negi and Rahul K. Gairola, Routledge, 2020).