[CSH Seminar] The Case for Dalit Reparations (A. Thorat)

[CSH Seminar] The Case for Dalit Reparations (A. Thorat)

by · December 17, 2025

Event Details

The Centre de Sciences Humaines is pleased to invite you to the CSH Seminar

by

Amit THORAT

(Jawaharlal Nehru University)

on

The Case for Dalit Reparations

Followed by a discussion with Harish Wankhede (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

On

Thursday, 22 January 2026, from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm IST

At

Centre de Sciences Humaines

IFI-CSH conference room (ground floor)

2 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi – 110011

To register: Please fill out the registration FORM

Abstract:

Reparations as a policy measure has been widely used the world over to compensate individuals, groups and communities for historic and continuing wrongs that they have been subjected to. From reparations being paid by Germany to Jewish survivors of the holocaust, to Canadian and New Zealand governments paying reparations to the native communities, in recent time, still other communities have been demanding reparations in addition to affirmative action policies. This talks makes a case for reparations to be paid to the ex-untouchables and ex-cast-enslaved and their descendants, in South-Asia and India in particular, who have faced exclusion, discrimination and loss of economic, political, social, civil and human rights for the longest period in history.

Speaker: 

Amit Thorat is an Assistant Professor of Economics, at the Center for the Study of Regional Development at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior to this, he worked as an Associate Fellow at the National Council for Applied Economics Research (NCAER), New Delhi, where he was part of the India Human Development Survey team. He has also worked with ICAR-National Institute, International Food Policy Research Institute, South Asia headquarters in New Delhi and Economic Research Foundation, New Delhi.
He received his doctorate in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning , JNU. His research has been onissues of poverty, income, educational and health inequalities in general and across social, ethnic and religious communities in particular, in the context of India. Currently he is working on understanding peoples beliefs around personal and social identity in India and its implications for social behavior, individual distress and economic outcomes, including how it informs compensation and reparations as policy tools to think about. His earlier work includes examining gains for small and marginal farmers from high value production as well as from farmer owned-cooperative farming.

 

For more info contact:

joel[dot]cabalion[at]csh-delhi[dot]com

co[dot]lefevre[at]csh-delhi[dot]com

CSH Seminars are in hybrid mode. Please pre-register for offline and online registration before Wednesday, 21 January, 2:00 p.m. IST.

To attend at the venue: Please note the room capacity is limited. Seats will be reserved on a first-come first-served basis. Kindly bring ID proof to be granted access to the venue.

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