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Pradipta Chaudhury
Pradipta Chaudhury, currently an Erasmus Visiting Fellow in the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics, is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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India’s New Caste Politics
Pradipta Chaudhury Series: The Asian Century 2007-06-19Once again, caste is casting a shadow over India’s politics. Caste-based quotas in education and government employment are supposed to benefit India’s most deprived, but in reality they have hardened, rather than eroded, India’s ancient system of discrimination.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 17533
