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About the Author Alpa Shah, Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology, London School of Economics,Jens Lerche, Reader in Labour and Agrarian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies,Richard Axelby, Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies, School of Orental and African Studies,Dalel Benbabaali, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Area Studies, University of Oxford,Brendan Donegan, Visiting Fellow in Anthropology, London School of Economics,Jayaseelan Raj, Assistant Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Kerala,Vikramaditya Thakur, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of DelawareAlpa Shah is Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology at LSE; Jens Lerche is Reader in Labour and Agrarian Studies at SOAS; Richard Axelby is a Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS; Dalel Benbabaali is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Area Studies at the University of Oxford; Brendan Donegan is a Visiting Fellow in Anthropology at LSE; Jayaseelan Raj is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Development Studies in Kerala; Vikramaditya Thakur is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Delaware. Product Description Why has India's astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India's 'untouchables' and 'tribals' fit into the global economy. India's Dalit and Adivasi communities make up a staggering one in twenty-five people across the globe and yet they remain amongst the most oppressed. Conceived in dialogue with economists, 'Ground Down by Growth' reveals the impact of global capitalism on their lives. It shows how capitalism entrenches, rather than erases, social difference and has transformed traditional forms of identity-based discrimination into new mechanisms of exploitation and oppression. Through studies of the working poor, migrant labour, and the conjugated oppression of caste, tribe, region, gender, and class relations, the social inequalities generated by capitalism are exposed.