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Spatial Inequalities in Big Indian Cities
Using ward-level data released by the census, the paper carries out a study of residential segregation in the 10 most populated Indian cities. It finds that there is significant residential segregation by caste and also by access to in-house drinking water, a basic public good, and access to in-house latrines, a basic private good. Further, in the case of some cities covered in the study, the proportion of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes in wards is highly correlated with access to public, private, and luxury goods.
The author is grateful to Partha Mukhopadhyay for his invaluable guidance in the analysis. Comments and suggestions from other colleagues at the Centre for Policy Research are gratefully acknowledged. The author is solely responsible for errors, if any, in the paper
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