LSE Inequality and Poverty Research Programme
Collective Book Workshop Schedule (30 June and 1 July 2016)
30 June 2016
Room 4426, 4th Floor, College Buildings, SOAS.
10.30- Coffee
10:45-11:00 – Introduction – Alpa Shah
11:00-12:00 Chaired by Clarinda Still
Chapter 1
Introduction
Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche
12:00 -1:00. Chaired by Alpa Shah
Chapter 2
At the Bottom of Durable Inequality: The Status of India’s Dalits and Adivasis.
K P Kannan
With Reflections from Barbara Harriss-White
1:00 – 2:00 –Lunch
Room FG01, 1st Floor, Faber Building, SOAS.
2:00 -3:15. Chaired by Dalel Benbabaali
Chapter 3
Kerala Tea Plantations
Jayaseelan Raj
With Reflections from Virginius Xaxa
3:15-3:30 – Coffee
3:30 – 4:45. Chaired by Richard Axelby
Chapter 4
The Hill-Bhils and their Plains’ Counterpart in Maharashtra
Vikramditya Thakur
With Reflections from Judith Whitehead
4:45-5:00 – Break
5:00-6:15. Chaired by Jayaseelan Raj
Chapter 5
Gaddis and Gujjars in the mountains of Chamba in Himachal Pradesh
Richard Axelby
With Reflections from K Sivaramakrishnan
1 July 2016
Seligman library, 6th Floor, Anthropology Department, Old Building, LSE.
10:15- Coffee
10:30 – 11:45. Chaired by Vikramditya Thakur
Chapter 6
Dalits, Irulas and Eastern Indian low caste labour in a Tamil Nadu Chemical Hub
Brendan Donegan
With Reflections from Geert De Neve
11:45-1:00. Chaired by Brendan Donegan
Chapter 7
Koyas, Lambadas and Madigas by a Telengana Paper Factory
Dalel Benbabaali
With Reflections from Clarinda Still
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:15-3:15. Chaired by Jens Lerche
Implications for Government of India, ILO and Indian Unions in relation to labour and discrimination
Ravi Srivastava
3:15 -3:30 – Coffee
3:30-5:30. Chaired by Alpa Shah
Concluding Reflections
Jonathan Parry on implication for theories of caste
David Mosse on implication for theories of inequality and poverty
John Harriss on implication for political struggle
Jan Breman on implications for labour
