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Seminar Papers & Presentations in 2008
Dec 28 > Presentation in the symposium on ‘Globalisation and Issues of Core and Periphery with special reference to Marginalised Groups in India’, XXXIV All India Sociological Conference, Indian Sociological Society, Jaipur, 27-29 December, 2008.
Dec 18 > Panelist, Indian Statistical Institute and Centre Sciences Humaine panel discussion on Affirmative Action in Higher Education, ISI, New Delhi, 18 December, 2008.
Dec 16 > Panelist, Workshop on ‘The City and its Cultures’, Department of English, Hindu College, Delhi University, 15-16 December, 2008.
Dec 4 > Presentation on ‘Understanding Caste Statistically: The Possibilities and Problems of Macro Data’ at the ESRC-ICSSR joint workshop on ‘Economic Restructuring, Higher Education, the Labour Market and Social Inequalities’, NASSDOC-ICSSR, New Delhi 4-5 December, 2008.
Nov 23-25 > Resource person, Workshop on ‘Comprehending Class: The Soweto Project’ at the Centre for Social Research, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 23-25 November, 2008.
Sep 24 > ‘Caste-based Inclusive Policies: The Long Road From Ideology to Implementation’, presentation at seminar on ‘Social Exclusion, Poverty and Livelihood of Marginalised Groups in India: Need for Effective Inclusive Strategies’ at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, University of Mangalore, 24-25 September 2008
Sep 11 > ‘Education and the Sociological Imagination’, invited lecture, Faculty of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, 11 September, 2008.
Aug 14 > ‘Higher Education and Inclusiveness’, presentation at the IInd Academic Seminar of IBSA Education, Florianopolis, Brazil, 14-16 August, 2008.
July 30 > Panelist, National Consultation Workshop on Higher Education in the XI Plan, National University for Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, 29-30 July 2008.
June 21 > Panelist at Workshop on Higher Education Today, Ratan Tata Trust Higher Education Cell, and Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, 20-21 June, 2008.
May 21 > “‘Backwardness’ in an unequal, multi-religious society”, presentation at the Symposium “Beyond the Sachar Report: Muslims in India Today”, Sanjeeda Fundation Trust, at JNU, 21 May, 2008.
Mar 19-21 > Programme for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, JNU & Centre for Comparative Constitutionalism, University of Chicago. Conference on Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India, the United States and South Africa. Paper: ‘Regulating Access to Higher Education in India: Social justice and credential capital in a poor and unequal society’
Mar 11 > Women’s Studies and Development Centre, Delhi University. Refresher Course on Gender Studies: Contemporary Challenges. Invited lecture: ‘Gender Through the Prism of Caste & Community : Notes on the Usefulness of Macro Statistics’.
Feb 16-19 > Indira Gandhi National Open University, International seminar on: Social Development, Social Movements and the Marginalised. Paper: “Caste Inequalities in Contemporary India: Comparisons Based on NSSO 55th and 61st Rounds”.
Feb 08-09 > JNU, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies and University of Birmingham, Seminar on India’s Religious Minorities: Democracy, Development and Citizenship. Presentation: “Backwardness, Discrimination and Size: The Discursive Dimensions of Minority Status”.
Jan 24 > Centre for Social Development, National Seminar on “Structural Transfrmation and Developmental Politics in Post-Liberalization India”. Paper: ‘Caste Inequality: Some Recent Trends’.
Jan 16 > National Defence College, New Delhi. 48th Course on National Security and Strategic Studies. Invited Lecture: ‘Caste in India: Social Cleavages and the Problem of Governance’.