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Prof Sukhadeo Thorat
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Working Papers – Forthcoming

 
•    Human Poverty Among Socially Disadvantaged Groups

              , Motilal Mahamallik and Sreelan Venkatesan

 
•    Development of Marginalized Social Groups in Gujarat

               and Motilal Mahamallik

 
•   Exclusion and Discrimination – Civil Rights Violations and Atrocities in Maharashtra

               and Prashant Negi

 
•   Government Concessions, Subsidies and Other Supports to the Private Sector Industry by the
Central and State Governments

              , Sarbeshwara Sahoo and Ananth Panth

 
•   Housing Situation of Social Groups and Poor Households – A Study of Selected Districts of Maharashtra
and Orissa with a focus on Indira Awas Yojna

               and Firdaus Fatimah Rizvi

 
Articles
 
•                  (2004), “Common Minimum Programme and the Dalits”, Social Scientist, New Delhi.
   
•                  (2004), “Caste, Economic and Market Discrimination – Reflections on Theory, Concept and Consequences” in Ambedkar Journal of Social Development and Justice. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar National Institute of Social Science, Mhow, Volume 12.
   
•                  and Andrew Dorward, Shenggen Fan, Jonathan Kydd, Hans Lofren, Jamie Morrison, Colin Poulton, Neetha Rao, Laurence Smith, Hardwick Tchale, Ian Urey and Peter Wobst (2004), “Institutions and Policies for Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth”, Development Policy Review.
   
•                   (April 2004), “Magnitude, Determinants and Activities of Child Labour in Rural India” in G.K. Lieten, Ravi Srivastava and Sukhadeo Thorat(ed), Small Hands in South Asia - Child Labour in Perspective, Manohar Publications: New Delhi.
   
•                 (May 2004), “Including the Excluded – Why and How?”, empower.poor.org, Tata Crescent: Delhi, I(2).
   
•                 (19-25 June, 2004), “On Reservation Policy for Private Sector”, Economic and Political Weekly.
   
•                  (2004), “Remedies against Market Discrimination – International Experience of Reservation Policy in Private Sector” in Bibek Debroy and Shyam Babu (ed), The Dalit Question – Reforms and Social Justice, Globus: New Delhi.
   
•                 (2004) ,”Situation of the Dalits since Independence - Some Reflections” in Bibek Debroy and Shyam Babu (ed), The Dalit Question – Reforms and Social Justice, Globus: New Delhi.
   
•                 and Martin Macwan, “Globalization and the Dalits”, National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights: New Delhi.
   
•                  and Nidhi Sadana (2004), “Strategy of Disincentive and Targeting for Population Control – Implications for Dalits and Tribals”, Ambedkar Journal of Social Science.
   
•                 (2004), “Caste, Race and United Nations Perspective on Discrimination – Coping with Challenges from Asia and Africa” in Sukhadeo Thorat and Umakant (ed.) Caste, Race and Discrimination: Discourses in International Context, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies and Rawat Publishers: New Delhi and Jaipur.
   
•                 (October 30, 2004), “The Varna of Efficiency”, The Economic Times, New Delhi.
   
•                  (2005), “Higher Education – Setting the Priorities Right” in Debating Education, Sahamat, New Delhi.
   
•                  (2005), “Caste System and Economic Discrimination – Lessons from Economic Theories” in Sukhadeo Thorat, Aryama and Prashant Negi (ed.), Reservation and Private Sector – Quest for Equal Opportunity and Growth, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies and Rawat Publishers: New Delhi and Jaipur.
   
•                 (2005), “Remedies against Discrimination – Lessons from Theories”, in Sukhadeo Thorat, Aryama and Prashant Negi, Reservation and Private Sector – Quest for Equal Opportunity and Growth, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies and Rawat Publishers: New Delhi and Jaipur.
   
•                 and Martin Macwan (2005), “Liberalization and the Dalits”, in Reservation and Private Sector – Quest for Equal Opportunity and Growth, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies and Rawat Publishers: New Delhi and Jaipur.
   
•                 (2005), “Reservation and Efficiency –Myth and Reality”, in Reservation and Private Sector – Quest for Equal Opportunity and Growth, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies and Rawat Publishers: New Delhi and Jaipur.
   
•                 (2005), “Reservation Policy for the Private Sector – Why and How?”, Occasional Papers Series - I, Department of Sociology, UGC Special Assistance Programme, University of Mumbai.
   
•                  (26 March, 2005), “Job Reservation in the Private Sector”, The Economic Times, New Delhi.
   
•                 (15 June, 2005), “Affirmative Action Needs Refocus”, The Economic Times, New Delhi.
   
•                 (7 September, 2005), “Is Reservation in the Private Sector Warranted?”, The Economic Times, New Delhi.
   
•                 and Nidhi Sadana (2005), “Rural Non-Farm Employment of the Scheduled Castes: A Comparative Study”, in A K Sharma and Rohini Nayar (eds.), Manohar Publications: New Delhi.
   
•                  (15 June, 2005), “Affirmative Action Needs Refocus”, The Economic Times, New Delhi.
   
•                 (July, 2005), “Reservation and Efficiency - Myth and Reality”, The Economic and Political Weekly.
   
•                  (September 7, 2005), “Is Reservation in the Private Sector Warranted?”, The Economic Times, New Delhi.
   
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                   and Joel Lee (October 2005), “Caste Discrimination and Food Security Program”, The Economic and Political Weekly.
   
•                 and Narendra Kumar, “Contesting views on Panchayati Raj – Ambedkar in the Context of 73rd Amendment Act”, in Sukhadeo Thorat and Aryama, Ambedkar in Retrospect – Essays on Economics, Politics and Society.
   
•                , “Ambedkar’s views on Economic System, Planning and Role of the State”, in in Sukhadeo Thorat and Aryama, Ambedkar in Retrospect – Essays on Economics, Politics and Society.
   
•                , “Ambedkar’s Role in Water and Power Policy”, in Sukhadeo Thorat and Aryama, Ambedkar in Retrospect – Essays on Economics, Politics and Society.
   
•                 (2005), “Ambedkar on Remedies against Discrimination” in Sukhadeo Thorat and Aryama, Ambedkar in Retrospect – Essays on Economics, Politics and Society.
   
•                , “Ambedkar and the Dalit Question: Perspective on Restructuring Indian Society”, in Gupta, (ed.), Hindu College, Delhi University.
   
Papers Presented
   
•  Social Justice Philanthropy in India
 

The findings of the Research Project titled Social Justice Philanthropy in India
Workshop on Social Justice Philanthropy, Graduate School, City University of New York

 

May 14-20, 2005 New York

   
•  Affirmative Action Policy in India – Dimension and Issues
 

Conference on Inequality and Inclusive Development

 

July 10-14, 2005 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

   
•  Caste and Poverty – Concept, Consequences and Measurement
 

Seminar on Marginalization and Dalits, Development Alternatives

 

October 25, 2005                New Delhi

   
•  Children, Exclusion and Inequality
 

Workshop on Mid-term Review of the Program on Children, UNICEF

 

November 9, 2005              New Delhi

   
•  Reservation Policy for the Private Sector in India including Multi- national Companies
 

Seminar organized by the International Dalit Solidarity Forum

 

October 19-29, 2005          The Hague, Netherlands

   
•  Work and Decent-based Discrimination in India
  Conference organized by the Buraku Institute of Human Right and Social Science
 

December 7-10, 2005      Osaka, Japan,

   
Lectures Delivered
   
  Lecture on Dalit Arts
 

Exhibition organized by the Bread for the World

 

May 26-27, 2005                 Hanover, Germany

 
 
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