B.Com, MBA, Ph.D, Administrative-cum-Accounts Officer & Head of Office, Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Renewable Energy (Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Govt. of India), Kapurthala (Punjab), India
Dr. Gupta is working in Finance & Administrative Department at management level since over twelve years
This research is an attempt to explore the unevenness of human development among social groups in India with a view to understanding the relationship between such unevenness and structural inequality. Given the richness and complexity of Indian society, it is rather difficult to determine where the focus of such an investigation should lie. There are at least eight religious communities in India, each with sizeable populations and distinct cultures. India's Muslim community, with a population of 138 million, is the third largest Muslim community in the world and constitutes approximately 14 per cent of India's current population. In addition, there are several other communities comprised of fairly large populations characterized by distinct historical patterns of deprivation and disadvantage. Foremost among them are the Scheduled castes (SCs), who comprise about 16 per cent of the population. SCs constitute the various groups known in official Indian parlance as Scheduled Castes (SCs) and are groups which fall in the lower echelons of the social hierarchy that is premised on Bramhinical Hinduism.
