Inclusive Growth Policy and Consequential Inequality- Among the Scheduled Caste: A Study of the Namasudras in a Frontier Region of Assam, India

Abstract

The term affirmative action and inclusive growth though antonym but inseparable with the term social exclusion in a modern nation state. But the two processes may not be antonym to each other. People may oscillate in two dimensional processes. They may move towards inclusion in one aspect or towards the exclusion in other or towards the state of total rupture. Affirmative actions itself might be exclusionary in nature. Affirmative actions which are adopted to integrate the excluded people in many times turns in to opposite direction are termed as ‘adverse incorporation’ or ‘differential inclusion’ (Silver, 2011).The problem is not seldom in India. In Indian society many inclusive policies causes differential inclusion or adverse incorporation. For instance the poor as social assistance recipients are excluded as means of reinforcing work ethics among the majority. Materials and Method: Purposive random sample of 100 respondents one from each house hold have been collected all most equally from rural and urban areas. Villages like Suprakandi, Brojendra Nagar of South Karimganj block, Koilaghat area of Dullabcherra, Baruala and Nalarpar of Ramkrishna Nagar development block etc Where Namasudra communities are concentared. And for urban area only Karimganj town have been selected. A schedule containing 30 variables is used as a tool to collect interview of respondents. Data have been analysed with the help of SPSS package.