A comment on the analysis in Sachar report

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 832-836

  Wilkinson, Steven ^a  

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1. Henceforth abbreviated as "SCR." I thank Devesh Kapur for his comments on a draft of this paper.
2. Asha Krishnakumar, 'Canards on Muslims', Muslim India 108, December 1991, pp 558-60.
3. See, e g, S Vijayagopalan, Economic Status of Handicraft Artisans, NCAER, New Delhi, 1993, and Abusaleh Shariff, 1995, 'Socio- Economic and Demographic Differentials between Hindus and Muslims in India', Economic and Political Weekly, November 18: 2947-53. Shariff is one of the members of the Sachar Committee.
4. Mushirul Hasan, Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims since Independence, Oxford, New Delhi, 1997.
5. See, e g, Hasan (1997) ibid, and the descriptions of housing discrimination against Muslimsmade in A R Saiyed's, 'Changing Urban Ethos' in K S Shukla (ed), Collective Violence: Genesis and Response, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, 1985, pp 97-119.
6. Sumon Kumar Bhaumik and Manisha Chakrabarty, 'Earnings Inequality in India: Has the Rise of Caste and Religion Based Politics in India Had an Impact?', March 2006, Institute for the Study of Labour, Bonn, IZA Discussion Paper No 2008, available at www.iza.org.
7. Wilkinson, Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
8. Chandan Nandy, 'Illegal Immigration from Bangladesh to India: The Emerging Conflicts', working paper from the Mellon-MIT Foundation on NGOs and Forced Migration, November 2005, available at http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/ migration/pubs/rrwp/chandan-nandy-immigrants.pdf, pp 103-104.
9. Derek A Neal and William R Johnson, 'The Role of Pre-Market Factors in Black-White Wage Differences', Journal of Political Economy, October, 1996, Vol 104, No 5, pp 869-95. (Pubitemid 27179047)