Conference on the Political Economy of Contemporary India
Nov 20-21, 2014
Organizing Committee: R. Nagaraj and Sripad Motiram
Conference Secretariat:
Ms. Jayshree Borkar. Tel: +91-22-28416586. E-mail: jayshree@igidr.ac.in
Conference Programme
Day 1: Nov 20, 2014
8:30-9:00 A.M. Registration
9:00-9:15 A.M. Inaugural Remarks, S. Mahendra Dev
9:15-11:30 A.M. Session 1: Macroeconomic Considerations
- Chair: Sanchita Saxena (University of California, Berkeley)
- Elizabeth Chatterjee (Oxford) "Interrogating the Pro-Business Tilt in the Power Sector"
- Partha Ray (IIM Calcutta) “Political Economy of Central Banking in India”
- R. Nagaraj (IGIDR) “Public Sector Employment: What Has Changed?”
11:30-11:45 A.M. Tea Break
11:45 A.M.-1:15 P.M. Session II: Interstate and Regional Narratives
- Chair: M.H. Suryanarayana (IGIDR)
- Kanta Murali (University of Toronto) “Economic Liberalisation, Identity Politics, and Growth-Oriented Policies”
- Vijay Shankar (Samaj Pragati Sahayog) “India's Agricultural Development: A Regional Perspective”
1:15-2:30 P.M. Lunch
2:30-4:45 P.M. Session III: Labour
- Chair: Rob Jenkins (City University of New York)
- Supriya Roy Chaudhuri (ISEC Bangalore) “New Paradigms of Labour Relations: How Much Do They Explain?”
- Adnan Naseemullah (King’s College London) “Labour Management After Statism in India”
- Orlanda Ruthven (Gram Tarang, Orissa) “Skill Development Policy”
4:45-5:00 P.M. Tea Break
5:00-6:45 P.M. Panel Discussion (On Political Economy/Macro issues)
- Chair: C. Ram Manohar Reddy (Economic and Political Weekly)
- Pranab Bardhan (University of California, Berkeley)
- Siddharth Varadarajan (Shiv Nadar University)
- Abhijit Sen (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- Gautam Mody (New Trade Union Initiative)
Day 2: Nov 21, 2014
9:00-10:30 A.M. Session 1V: State Level Political Economy
- Chair: S. Mahendra Dev (IGIDR)
- Suhas Palshikar and Rajeshwari Deshpande (Pune University) “Political Economy of a Dominant Caste”
- A. Kalaiyarasan (Jawaharlal Nehru University) “Populism and Party-Society: Developmental Regimes in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal”
10:30-10:45 A.M. Tea Break
10:45 A.M.-1:00 P.M. Session V: Issues in Land Acquisition I
- Chair: Sripad Motiram (IGIDR)
- Amit Bhaduri (Jawaharlal Nehru University) “A Study in Development by Dispossession”
- Ajit Menon and M. Vijay Bhaskar (MIDS, Chennai) “Factors Shaping Land-Use Change in Rural Tamil Nadu: A Micro-level Study”
- Preeti Sampath (City University of New York) “Infrastructures of Growth, Corridors of Power”
1:00-2:00 P.M. Lunch
2:00-3:30 P.M. Session VI: Land Acquisition II
- Chair: Sudha Narayanan (IGIDR)
- Sai Balakrishnan (Rutgers University) “Land-based Financing for Infrastructure: What is New about India’s Land Conflicts?”
- Shashi Singh (Cambridge) “Political Economy of Land Acquisition and Resource Development in India”
3:30-3:45 P.M. Tea Break
3:45-5:15 P.M. Session VII: Politics and Legality of Land and Employment
- Char: R. Nagaraj (IGIDR)
- Rob Jenkins (City University of New York) “Responding to LARRA: Provincial Resistance and Federal Reform”
- Nandini Nayak (Ambedkar Univ. Delhi) “From 'Beneficiary’ to 'Worker’ and Back: The Varied Politics of Implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India"
5:15-6:30 P.M. Panel Discussion (On Land, Food and Natural Resources)
- Chair: S. Mahendra Dev (IGIDR)
- Bernard D'Mello (Economic and Political Weekly)
- Aseem Shrivastava
6:30-6:45 P.M. Vote of Thanks
