Motiram, Sripad; Sarma, Nayantara - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
We analyze polarization in India roughly in the past two and half decades using consumption expenditure data. We show … that both bipolarization and multidimensional polarization (on several dimensions: caste, rural-urban, state, region) have … disparities. Comparing polarization and inequality, we find similarities, but also some differences. Our results therefore …