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LAARG Reading Group
June 26, 2023 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Lancaster Asia Area Research Group (LAARG)
Reading Group June 2023
Date: Monday, 26th June
Time: 2.30 – 3.30pm
Venue: Online on MS Teams
This session is open for all to attend.
Dr. Charumita Vasudev will be leading an open discussion on the reading by Ajantha Subramanian called ‘Meritocracy and Democracy: Indian Reservations and the Politics of Caste’.
This article talks about India’s move towards an embrace of caste quotas, or reservations, as a necessary mechanism of recompense and redistribution. The author takes up the tensions between different approaches to democracy and their implications for addressing historical inequalities.
