Subject(s): Poverty -- Poor -- Persistence of poverty in India -- Identifying the poor : Construction of poverty and poor in colonial and post colonial India, measurement, patterns and determinants of poverty, reconceiving the impact of population change- class and gender based analysis of ageing in poverty urban south India -- Targeting the poor : From poverty to poverty- polices for translating growth into development, redressing poverty and enhancing social development trends in India's welfare regime -- Empowering the poor : Poverty and eradication in rural Chattisgarh, notaions of rights and state benefits in village west Bengal, flaunted transcripts- shaming elites and interrogating domination in Bihar -- Controlling the poor : seasonal labour/ labor marginalities and dominance in north - west India, progress over the long haul- dynamics of agrarian change in Kaveri Delta, dynamic political economy of persistent poverty, how to govern the poor - role of social policies in economic transformation