The paper explores the socio-economic similarities between two marginalized communities: scheduled castes and nomadic tribes in India and the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and focuses on the transferability of the ‘affirmative action’ model of India to address poverty,...

The paper deals with seminal changes in the socio-economic life of the Roma community in the village of Cserdi in Hungary, brought about by a host of strategic programs of a dynamic Roma Mayor. It suggests several measures to develop a viable development model by consolidating his programs with...

Review of the book Romani Communities and Transformative Change: A New Social Europe. (eds. Andrew Ryder, Marius Taba and Nidhi Trehan, Policy Press, 2021).

It is an established observation that the Roma have been one of the world’s most impoverished, persecuted and marginalized communities, yet also the least understood. While there have been some estimates of a global Roma population of 20 million, these communities are dispersed throughout...