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What Does the Caste Wealth Gap Look Like in India? -Kaushal Shroff

-TheWire.in

A recent research paper examining consumption expenditure and landholdings in Uttar Pradesh sheds new light.

Mumbai: For years, researchers and academics have studied how wealth and income inequality in India is, more often than not, split along caste lines, with upper castes cornering a larger piece of the pie.

However, the measure of their enrichment and the consequent impoverishment and exclusion of Muslim Dalits and Hindu Dalits has received less attention. A recent research article that estimates poverty, wealth inequality and financial inclusion at the sub-caste level in Uttar Pradesh shows that consumption expenditure for Hindu Dalits and Dalit Muslims is lowest compared to other sub-castes.

In the same vein, it is Muslim OBCs and Muslim Dalits followed by Hindu Dalits (Paasi and Chamar) that are the most common landless households in UP. Lastly, both the categories also register one of the highest poverty levels.

Alternatively, and perhaps not surprisingly, Brahmins, Thakurs and other Hindu general castes have higher wealth accumulation, lower poverty and lesser exclusion from formal financial services than Dalits. Additionally, within-group income inequalities among upper castes are strikingly less compared to within-group income inequalities observed amongst Hindu and Muslim OBCs and Dalits.

The research article, titled “Poverty, wealth inequality and financial inclusion among castes in Hindu and Muslim communities in Uttar Pradesh, India”, is authored by Chhavi Tiwari of the Institut National d’études Démographiques (INED), Paris; Srinivas Goli, a Australia–India Institute NGN Scholar; Mohammad Zahid Siddiqui of the Centre for the Study of Regional Development under JNU; and Pradeep S. Salve of the International Institute for Population Sciences.

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