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Contemporary India stands on the threshold of a knowledge society that is widely characterized by phenomenal penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs), neo-liberal economic globalisation, use of knowledge and education in all domains of lives, shift in workforce from agriculture and industry to service sector, as well as the ushering of new socio-cultural forms. However, in rural areas, the advancement of knowledge society has been limited because of spatial segregation between rural and urban areas, as well as social segregation in terms of caste, gender, ethnicity and class. In this chapter, we show that a higher social and economic status has remained positively linked with a higher degree of association with the knowledge society. However, regardless of this unevenness, the knowledge society has led to a new economic and socio-cultural momentum through the use of ICTs, which has produced newer patterns of spatial and occupational mobility.
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These statistics were cited from http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm (accessed 25 September 2016) and http://trak.in/tags/business/2016/05/31/indian-mobile-subscriber-stats-mar-2016/ (accessed 25 September 2016).
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SinghaRoy, D.K. (2019). Dynamics of Social Mobility in an Emerging Knowledge Society: The Case of Rural India. In: Mukherji, P., Jayaram, N., Ghosh, B. (eds) Understanding Social Dynamics in South Asia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0387-6_7
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