British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Politics and Society in Contemporary India:
Change and Diversity

Thursday 5 October 5 2006

The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH

Convenor
Professor Anthony Heath, FBA, Nuffield College, Oxford

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9.15

Coffee and Registration

9.30

Introduction
Anthony Heath, FBA, and Roger Jeffery

9.45

Demographic and related change in India
Tim Dyson, FBA (LSE)

10.30

 

Class, caste and social mobility in contemporary India
Divya Vaid and Anthony Heath, FBA (Oxford)

11.15

Coffee

11.30

Everyday politics in the social sector: Health providers and ailing villagers
Roger and Patricia Jeffery (Edinburgh)

12.15

Ethnographic approaches to democracy: lessons from West Bengal
Mukulika Banerjee (UCL)

1.00

Lunch

2.00

The changing social bases of party politics in India
Oliver Heath (BA Postdoctoral Fellow, Essex)

2.45

Becoming politicians: the politics of caste, kinship and factionalism in a north Indian town
Lucia Michelutti (ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, LSE)

3.30

Tea

3.45

The Congress Party and the Politics of Representation in India
Zoya Hasan (JNU, New Delhi)

4.30

Strategic voting and ethnic politics in India
Kanchan Chandra (NYU)

5.15

Discussion
led by Christophe Jaffrelot (CERI, Paris)

6.30

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