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Bridging the Divide: An Anthropological Analysis of Development, Economic Inequality, and the Systemic Marginalization of the Koch Rajbongshi Tribe
Abstract
This chapter provides the framework for critically examining development and economic inequality as cultural marginalization across the globe and in grassroots experiences. Taking the Koch Rajbongshi tribe as a case of systematic oversight, it analyzes the exclusion of indigenous communities by dominant growth paradigms. Using ethnographic accounts, policy reports and theoretical contributions, including (but not limited to) recent work by Sen, Piketty and Fraser, this chapter contends that development needs to articulate social justice, cultural identity and historical recognition alongside its existing GDP-influenced neo-economic character. It compares effective models of literacy-led equity, like those of Kerala and Mizoram, with ongoing exclusion because of bureaucratic inertia. Primary insight and real-time development make the case for a recognition and redistribution-based people-centred development model much stronger.
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