1. Jonathan Parry, Introduction: On the Persistence of Poverty in IndiaPart I: Identifying the poor 2. Nandini Gooptu, The Construction of Poverty and the Poor in Colonial and Post-Colonial India: An Overview 3. Himanshu and Kunal Sen, Poverty in India: Measurement, patterns and determinants 4. Penny Vera- Sanso, Reconceiving the Impact of Population Change: A Class- and Gender-based Analysis of Ageing in Poverty in Urban South India
Part II: Targeting the poor 5. Dipankar Gupta, From Poverty to Poverty: Policies for Translating Growth into Development in India 6. Jos Mooij, Redressing Poverty and Enhancing Social Development: Trends in India’s Welfare Regime
Part III: Empowering the poor 7. Peggy Froerer, Poverty and Education in Rural Chhattisgarh 8. Arild Ruud, Notions of Rights and State Benefits in Village West Bengal 9. Indrajit Roy, Flaunted Transcripts: Shaming Elites and Interrogating Domination in Bihar
Part IV: Controlling the poor 10. David Picherit, Neither a Dog, nor a Beggar: Seasonal Labour Migration, Development, and Poverty in Andhra Pradesh 11. Julia Eckert, Preventive Laws and the Policing of the Urban Poor
Part V: The improving lot of the poor? 12. Surinder S. Jodhka, What’s Happening to the Rural? Revisiting ‘marginalities’ and‘dominance’ in North-West India 13. Staffan Lindberg, Venkatesh B. Athreya, Göran Djurfeldt, A. Rajagopal, and R. Vidyasagar,
Progress over the Long Haul: Dynamics of Agrarian Change in the Kaveri Delta 14. Barbara Harriss-White, The Dynamic Political Economy of Persistent South Asian Poverty 15. Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, How to Govern the Poor: The Role of Social Policies in Economic Transformation