  We study the distributional features and inequality of consumption
expenditure across India, for different states, castes, religion and
urban-rural divide. We find that even though the aggregate measures of
inequality are fairly diversified across states, the consumption distributions
show near identical statistics, once properly normalized. This feature is seen
to be robust with respect to variations in sociological and economic factors.
We also show that state-wise inequality seems to be positively correlated with
growth which is in accord with the traditional idea of Kuznets' curve. We
present a brief model to account for the invariance found empirically and show
that better but riskier technology draws can create a positive correlation
between inequality and growth.
