Mobilizing for the Right to Work: Ten Years of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Rob Jenkins
February 29, 2016
In this issue of India in Transition, Rob Jenkins, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, argues that the country's decade-old employment-guarantee legislation has provided not just critical income support for some of rural India's most vulnerable people, but also the political capacity to assert their dignity, advance their interests, and defend their rights.
CASI in the News
CASI Director, Devesh Kapur was quoted in a February 27, 2016 Livemint article by Niranjan Rajadhyaksha titled "State, Market, Institutions: Arvind Subramanian’s Imprint on the Economic Survey."
CASI Welcomes Spring 2016 Visiting Fellow, Samanth Subramanian
Samanth Subramanian is a writer and journalist. He is the India correspondent for The National, author of two books, and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
CASI Student Programs
Travel Funds for Research Applications are due on March 14, 2016
CASI provides up to $3,000 to undergraduate winners and up to $3,500 to graduate student winners to use towards international roundtrip economy fare and India in-country travel related expenses. We encourage applications from both Penn undergraduates (preferably juniors writing a thesis related to contemporary India) and graduate students focused on contemporary India or India in a comparative context.
CASI Student Programs Blog
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Questions? Please contact Aparna Wilder, Associate Director CASI Student Programs and Outreach apwilder@sas.upenn.edu
Upcoming Events
Friday, March 18, 2016, 12:00-1:30 p.m. at CASI
"Manipur in the Heart of Darkness: Unlayering Decades of Insurgency & Counterinsurgency"
CASI Seminar by Anubha Bhonsle - Executive Editor, CNN-IBN, Author, Mother, Where’s My Country?
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Friday, March 25, 2016, 12:00-1:30 p.m. at CASI
"Intergenerational Effects of Women's Status: Evidence from Joint Indian Households"
CASI Seminar by Diane Coffey - Visiting Researcher, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, and Visiting Fellow, Princeton University
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Friday, April 1, 2016, 12:00-1:30 p.m. at CASI
"Ambiguities of Sovereignty: Politics of Peace in Northeast India"
CASI Seminar by Sanjib Baruah - Professor of Political Studies, Bard College
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