Center for the Advanced Study of India

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

"Traveling Agents? Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India" A joint work with Anandi Mani, University of Warwick

Professor Lakshmi Iyer
Assistant Professor
Harvard Business School

Date & Venue:
September 28th, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Center for the Advanced Study of India, 3600 Market St, Suite 560
Philadelphia

Lakshmi Iyer is an economist in the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary research fields are political economy and development economics, with a special emphasis on property rights institutions. Her work includes studies of historical and current institutions, such as colonialism and historical land rights in India and land reforms in Vietnam.