Marginalization is a multidimensional, multicausal, historical phenomenon. In Indian society, there are many marginal communities which are victims of the prevailing social milieu. Besides Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and women, this includes, rural poor, manual workers in unorganized sectors, sex workers, transgenders, blue-collar workers, old age people, child labourers, migrant population, urban poor, slum-dwellers, differently-abled persons and others in the category of religious and linguistic minority groups. These communities are given very low position in social strata and are subjected to all types of exploitation, discrimination, disparities, oppression, violence, civil rights violation, ill-treatment and deprivations. This volume is a collection of articles on the marginal communities covering different perspectives of their issues, problems and challenges. All contributors have focused on common thinking on marginalized communities because the nation cannot achieve the target of inclusive development without the development of marginal communities. CONTENTS 1 Marginal Communities: An Introduction / Jagan Karade 2 Marginalized Communities: Development and Deprivation / S. Gurusamy 3 Performance of Social Security for the Weaker Section in Economic and Post-Economic Reform in India / Jayashree Ambewadikar 4 An Analysis of Labour Migration in India / P.S. Kamble 5 Development-Induced Dispossession and Continuous Deprivation of Marginalized Communities in India / Sampat Kale 6 Socio-Economic and Demographic Correlates of Migrants in India: In Perspective of Cycle Rickshaw Pullers / Naresh Kumar 7 Left Behind in Digital Era: The Case of Digital Exclusion / Jagan Karade and Kuldeep Singh Rajput 8 Housing the Urban Poor in North-Western India: A Case of State-Induced Segregation in Selected Metropolitan Towns / Manoj Kumar Teotia 9 Social Integration and Development of Denotified 195 Nomadic Tribes in Post-Independence India / Sanjay Kolekar 10 Marginalization and Exclusion of Sugarcane Cutter Migrant Labour / Prashant Bansode ABOUT THE AUTHOR / EDITOR Jagan Karade is Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. He is also the Co-ordinator of UGC-SAP-DRS-Phase III and Director of the Centre of Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy. He is a Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). Author of four books and ten edited volumes, he has completed two major and four minor research projects funded by the UGC and ICSSR, New Delhi. He is a Board Member of WG-05, Famine and Society, International Sociological Association. He has served as Secretary, the Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi and President of the Marathi Samajshastra Parishad. Very recently, Dr Karade received the Dr Pradeep Aglave Best Professor and Researcher Award (2020) and Dr Suryakant Ghugare Best Research Book Award (2021) by Marathi Samajshastra Parishad.