Inequality of opportunity across the social groups in India

Caste is the most meaningful way of classification of Indian population. The family background across the social groups defined by caste is sharply different. The reason behind this disparity is that this way of classification of the society was initially introduced on the basis of occupation. The members of the so called disadvantaged social groups were concentrated at the bottom of occupational hierarchy and the contrary is true for the members of the advantaged social groups. Till this date this type of deprivation is not totally disappeared. This disparity in the family background is having substantial impacts on educational achievement and labour market outcome across the social groups from one to the next generation. This study is an attempt to assess the impact of the disparity in family background on labour market outcome across the samples of the social groups. In other words, it tries to focus on the variability of inequality of opportunity across the social groups in India.