May 2008
Career Opportunity at CASI: Online Editor
Position and Application Details

12.03-05.2008
2008 Conference on Dalit Agendas: Emancipation, Citizenship, and Empowerment
Conference Site

 
 
The Nand and Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series "Judicial Overreach or Oversight?" [Video]
Justice Ruma Pal

The Nand and Jeet Khemka Distiguished Lecture Series "Reforming the Indian Banking System - Why It Is Important and What Can Be Done" [video]
Raghuram Rajan

 
 
Crusader Sees Wealth as Cure for Caste Bias
Somini Sengupta, The New York Times, August 29, 2008

In an Indian Village, Signs of the Loosening Grip of Caste
Emily Wax, The Washington Post, August 31, 2008

Banias and Beyond: The Dynamics of Caste and Big Business in Modern India
Harish Damodaran, June 2008
 
 
 


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International Advisory Board

 

Vijay C. Advani
Executive Vice President, Global Distribution
Franklin Templeton Investments

 

Isher Judge Ahluwalia
Chairperson, Board of Governors
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations


Marshall M. Bouton
President
Chicago Council on Global Affairs


Richard F. Celeste
President, Colorado College and
US Ambassador to India , 1997-2001


Purnendu Chatterjee
Chairman
The Chatterjee Group


John Gilray Christy
Chairman
Chestnut Capital Corporation


Joseph W. Elder
Professor, Sociology and Languages & Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison


J. Dudley Fishburn
Chairman, Altria Group, Inc.
Director, HSBC Group
Former Executive Editor, The Economist


Peter F. Geithner
Advisor, Asia Center, Harvard University
Former Director, Asia Programs, Ford Foundation


Ishaat Hussain
Finance Director
Tata Sons


Devesh Kapur
(ex officio)
Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India


Raman Kapur
Chairman
Midland Pharmaceuticals

 

Shiv V. Khemka
Vice Chairman
The Sun Group


Sreedhar Menon
Chairman, Strategic Advisor, and Equity Partner
Viteos Technology Limited


Barbara Daly Metcalf
Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History
University of Michigan


Joydeep Mukherji
Director, Sovereign Ratings
Standard and Poor's


Ralph W. Nicholas
President, American Institute of Indian Studies and
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology & Social Sciences, The University of Chicago


Dhananjay M. Pai
Senior Vice President
P. Schoenfeld Asset Management LLC

 

Dalip Pathak
Managing Director
Warburg Pincus International LLC


Ramanan Raghavendran
Managing Partner
Kubera Partners, LLC


Bruce O. Riedel
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Former Senior Director for Near East & South Asia Affairs, National Security Council, 1997-2001


HE Ronen Sen
(ex officio)
Ambassador of India to the United States
Embassy of India, Washington DC


Rajiv Sobti
Chief Investment Officer

Nomura Global Alpha


Sanjiv Sobti
Chairman
FIRE Capital Fund


Eswaran Sridharan
(ex officio)
Acting Secretary-General
University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India


Honorary Life Members


† Robert F. Goheen (CASI Memoriam)
President Emeritus, Princeton University and
US Ambassador to India , 1977-80
Chairman Emeritus


Keshub Mahindra
Chairman
Mahindra and Mahindra Limited


Kapila Vatsyayan
Chairperson
India International Centre-Asia Project
Member of Executive Board, UNESCO