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Penn School of Arts and Sciences Monday, June 17, 2013




Elections in India: The Errors Voters Make

MILAN VAISHNAV
June 17, 2013

In this issue of India in Transition, Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., argues that, despite the prevailing wisdom about the role of ethnic identity in Indian elections, voters make systematic errors in identifying the ethnicity of the candidates for whom they vote.

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CASI in the News

CASI Director, Devesh Kapur published “India's Goldilocks Principle” in the June 9, 2013 issue of Business Standard.

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Indian Express Editor-in-Chief, Shekhar Gupta recently interviewed in his “Walk the Talk” video series, posted on NDTV, Chandra Bhan Prasad, writer on Dalit issues and former CASI Visiting Scholar, and Milind Kamble, Chairman of Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DICCI).

View video of “Walk the Talk with Founders of Dalit Indian Chamber Of Commerce & Industry”

Additionally, a transcript of the Gupta interview was published in a June 11, 2013 Indian Express article, “Capitalism is Changing Caste Much Faster than Any Human Being. Dalits Should Look at Capitalism as a Crusader Against Caste.”

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