Inequalities in South Asia

15 December

9h30 – 11h: Protest and conflicts

Chair: Christophe Jaffrelot (CERI-SciencesPo/CNRS)

• Mirza M. Hassan, BRAC University
  The July Popular Upsurge in Bangladesh: The Class and Political Inequalities at Work?
• Gameela Samarasinghe, Colombo University
  Inequality, Injustice, and Power Imbalances as Root Causes of Suffering in Sri Lanka - Exploring Psychosocial Responses to Crises. 

11h – 11h30: Coffee break

11h30 – 13h00: Gender

Chair: Laurent Gayer (CERI-SciencesPo/CNRS)

• Farah Said, Lahore University of Management Studies
  Gender Norms and the Dynamics of Agency and Power within Households in Pakistan
• Kamala Marius, Université Bordeaux Montaigne and SciencesPo Bordeaux
  Rethinking Women’s Work and Gender Inequalities in Globalized India

13h – 14h: Lunch break

14h – 15h30: Regions

Chair: Loraine Kennedy (CESAH-EHESS/CNRS)

• Mahendran Thiruvarangan, Jaffna University
  Ethnically Unequal: The Northern Muslims of Sri Lanka during the Post-war Years
• Kalaiyarasan A., Madras Institute of Development Studies
  The Political Economy of Regional Inequality and Fiscal Transfer in India

15h30-16h: Coffee break

16h-17h30: Class

• Sonalde Desai, University of Maryland and NCAER
  Class of Mind? Subjective and Objective Dimensions of the Middle-Class Status in Modern India
• Shandana Mohmand, IDS, Sussex University
  The Political Economy of Progressive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

December 16

9h30- 11h: Caste

Chair: Aminah Mohammad-Arif, CESAH-EHESS/CNRS

Jusmeet S. Sihra, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
Old Problem in a New Place: Redlining of Ex-Untouchable Ghettos

Julien Levesque, GSRL-CNRS
Caste, religion, and official categorization in Pakistan: a review of recent scholarship

11h-11h30: Coffee break

Chair: Lola Guyot, DEVSOC, Paris 1/Panthéon-Sorbonne

• Gilles Verniers, CERI-SciencesPo
  The institutional exclusion of Muslims in India
• Charza Shahabuddin, CERI-SciencesPo
  Violence and invisibilisation against ethnic and religious minorities in Bangladesh

13:00-14:00: Lunch break

14:00-15:30: Policies

Chair: Manisha Anantharaman, CSO-SciencesPo

• Nadeera Rajapakse,
  Reducing Inequalities for Sustainable, Equitable Human Development in Sri Lanka
• Stéphanie Tawa Lama (CESAH-EHESS/CNRS)
  Local elections and the deinstitutionalisation of political equality in India

15:30-17:00: Meeting the Sciences Po South Asian alumni and students’ association

Chairs: Léa Abrieux and Alexandre Mariani (DAI-SciencesPo)

A panel discussion with office-bearers of the Indo-French Circle:

• Vithursan Wigneswaran, President
• Hanna Elizabeth John, Vice-President
• Saee Vaidya, Head of student events and communication
• Manucheher Shafee, UN Social Protection Specialist at the World Food Programme