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45 Soc. Change 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/sclcnge45 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Social Exclusion: Social Change 45(l) 1-23 The European Concept AEb atio SAGE Publications sagepub.in/home.nav for Indian Social Reality DO: o.l177/io497,4s6837 http://sch.sagepub.com $SAGE Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha' Abstract Social exclusion, a European concept that has been inducted into the Indian social research domain, is the core area of inquiry in this article. It is argued that the concept of social exclusion needs to play a crucial role in Indian society in terms of handling multiple deprivations experienced by different social groups. This article aims to comprehend the trends of social exclusion and further examines its significance in Indian policy discourse. Further, it analyses the transformation that Indian state has undergone, having socialist orientation earlier and the neoliberal phase recently. The article has been divided into two sections. While the first section provides theoretical analysis of the concept and the second section studies purview of the new concept in Indian context and discusses some policy implications. Keywords Social exclusion, poverty, social policy, India Introduction Exclusion is a tragedy and inclusion is a bliss; everything is human cultivation Since the concept of social exclusion has been inducted in academic and research programmes in India through the creation of 32 Centres to Study Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, there is a steady interest to understand the pros and cons of the concept as an academic discipline. Social exclusion as an effective social practice has been familiar since centuries, but its academic roots were unveiled recently in the European Union (EU). The concept was first used in France to 'Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan. Corresponding author: Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan. E-mail: mailtokrkr@gmail.com

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