EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION TO INDIAN SOCIETY: A PERSPECTIVE IN SOCIAL EXCLUSION

In this paper, the present paper has employed the discourse analysis method by analyzing the contemporary challenges and consequences by globalization-induced developments to Indian society over the last three decades. The paper brings together various concepts of globalization and how it encourages to market economy rather than human and social developments in particular reference to the marginal segments within Indian society; such as women, dalits, poor and disabled, and other vulnerable groups as well. In first section, this paper attempted to incorporate concepts, dimensions and debates in the context of globalization process and also employs synonymous terminologies which are simply considered as an important domain in social sciences. Second section focuses on how globalization-induced developments boost to industrial and service sectors in Indian economy and manufacture serious challenges before Indian constitution. Moreover, the study also illustrated several social facts and observations while mapping positive and negative consequences in globalized-market economy. Finally, paper focuses on positive and negative effects and challenges of globalization to welfare character of Indian state since 1990s onwards when it was started off. The changing character of Indian state leads to create social and economic inequalities and inevitable exclusions by governing policy formations. In order to reduce inequalities and poverty from the Indian society, formation and implementation of social exclusion discourse by policy-makers and administrators to have an important focus in this paper and it also revolves around multiple causes of market based deprivation and marginalization debates.