Visual charts for India
From book 'Capital and Ideology', presentation by @PikettyLeMonde
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The religious structures of India, 1871-2011
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The structure of the population in censuses of India,1871-2011 #India #Inequality #CapitalandIdeology
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The structure of upper caste in India, 1871-2014
What could be cause of increase(12.8% to 14%) in total upper caste population share from 2009-2014?? @WIL_inequality
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The rigidification of upper castes in India, 1871-2014

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Positive discrimination in India, 1950-2015

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Divergence of top and bottom incomes 1980-2018
Share of top 10% and bottom 50% in total national income

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Top decile wealth share
In india top 10 % wealth Owners control around 62% of total private property

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Inequality between the top 10% and the bottom 50%
In India the average income of top 10% is 18-19 times average income of bottom 50%

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Inequality between the top 1% and the bottom 50% (2018)
In india the average income of top 1% is 72 times average income of bottom 50%

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Global inequality regimes (2018)
Share of top decile in total national income
In India top 10% gets 55% of total national income

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Left vote by caste and religion, India 1962-2014
In 2014,Brahmins 11% & other forward castes 12% voted least to left parties comparatively to other sections of societies as percentage of sectional voters

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Congress vote by caste and religion, 1962-2014
Muslims, SC/ST, OBC consistently 30% and above of voters of them voted for congress even if Congress is very reluctant to give those sections top party,power posts

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BJP vote by caste, religion and state: India 1996-2016
Self evident BJP is primarily party serving forward castes interest and also getting major votes of them

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BJP vote among upper castes, 1962-2014
The core 15-20% vote share of BJP& allies comes from same sections

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BJP vote among ' Lower Castes' 1962-2014
Consistently SC/ST voted less for BJP and allies

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The BJP & the religious cleavage: India 1962-2014
In 2014, BJP and other communalising forces created huge 30-31% difference between % vote among all caste Hindus and among Muslim

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The evolution of ternary societies: Europe- India 1530-1930
India had relatively higher share priestly & other classes then in Europe

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The structure of ternary societies
Europe- India 1660-1880

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BJP vote by caste and religion
India 1962-2014
In 2014, Brahmins(60%) and other forward caste(49%) voted more share of votes to BJP for majoritarian mandate
Whereas muslim voted least 10%
SC/ST voted 31%
OBC voted 42%

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Population in India, China and Europe, 1700-2050

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Discrimination & inequality in comparative perspective
Ratio of average income of historically discriminated,disadvantageous group to the rest of population countrywise
To be noted India has larger % share population

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Legislative elections in India(Lok sabha) 1962-2014
Story of Decline of Congress and rise of BJP
Regional parties can give both national parties bloody nose if they combine their strength in federal front type forum

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Top decile wealth share rich and emerging countries
Share it top decile in total private property
Increasing in all countries since 1980-90s

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Share of top 1% in total private property in rich and emerging countries

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The circulation of property and progressive taxation (proposed)