[CSH Seminar] Counting and ranking caste. The 2023 Bihar experiment. (Himanshu and C. Guilmoto)
The Centre de Sciences Humaines is pleased to invite you to the CSH Seminar
by
Himanshu
(JNU-CSH)
&
Christophe Z. Guilmoto
(IRD-CRPRD)
on
Counting and ranking caste. The 2023 Bihar experiment.
Followed by a discussion with Surinder Singh Jodhka (Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, JNU)
On
Monday, 10 February 2025, 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: This paper aims to provide an overview of the insights gained from the Bihar caste census and its implications for understanding caste and tribe inequality in the state. Conducted in 2023, this census was the first survey since 1931 to offer disaggregated data on caste and tribal membership. It includes additional tabulations by occupation, income, housing and amenities, and migration. The preliminary analysis confirms significant heterogeneities both among individual communities and within broader administrative categories, providing an overall ranking of communities across Bihar.
Speakers:
Himanshu is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is also an affiliated researcher at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. He has held visiting fellowships at the London School of Economics, (British Academy Senior Visiting Fellow and C R Parekh Fellow). UNU-WIDER (Finland) and GREQAM (France). His current research interests revolve around poverty and inequality in India, structural change and changing pattern of employment and livelihood in rural India. Read more…….
Christophe Z. Guilmoto is a senior fellow in demography at the French Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) attached to CEPED research unit in Paris. At CSH he headed the research area Population and Spaces in Transition between 2021- 2024 and now continues his research on the demography of inequality as an associate researcher. In France, he taught at Université Paris Descartes and EHESS. He was trained in Mathematics and Sociology. he is the author of the first global report on sex imbalances at birth (UNFPA 2012) and published a book Atlas of Gender and Health Inequalities in India, Vol. 16 by Springer Nature in 2023. Read more…….
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joel[dot]cabalion[at]csh-delhi[dot]com
laurence[dot]gautier[at]csh-delhi[dot]com
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