Friday, April 27th
10am-12pm – Opening Remarks & Panel I: Theories of Representation (I)
Discussant/Chair: Rohit De
- Jaby Mathew, “Challenging Unfitness: Some Ideas of Political Representation in Nineteenth Century India”
- Tejas Parasher, “Dadabhai Naoroji and the Theory of ‘Living Representation’”
- Mohinder Singh, “Conceptualization of ‘the People’ and Political Representation in Hindi Political Discourse: Early 20th Century”
1pm-3pm – Panel II: Populism and Publicity
Discussant/Chair: Paula Chakravartty
- Srirupa Roy, “Lineages of Populism: Outsider Politics and the Long 1970s in India”
- Frank Cody, “Media Involution: Metamorphoses of Popular Politics in Tamil India”
- Vivek Yadav, “Secret Ballot and the Sphere of Electoral Publicity”
3:30-5:30pm – Panel III: Identity and Representation
Discussant/Chair: Karuna Mantena
- Rochana Bajpai, “What Do Descriptive Representatives describe? Minority Representative Claims in the 2014 Election Campaign”
- Pratap Bhanu Mehta, “Paradoxes of Identity and Representation in India”
- M. Madhava Prasad, “Prospects for Self-Representation: On Citizenship and Identity”
Saturday, April 28th
10am-12pm – Panel IV: Popular Sovereignty, Parties, Violence
Discussant/Chair: Partha Chatterjee
- Ruchi Chaturvedi, “From Popular Sovereignty to Parliamentary Victories: A Brief History of Violence”
- Lucia Michelutti, “Circuits of Protection and Extortion: Popular Sovereignty in a Provincial North Indian Town”
- David Gilmartin, “Representation and the Will of the Voters: Factions, Political Parties and the Law of Defections”
1pm-3pm – Panel V: Theories of Representation (II)
Discussant/Chair: Sudipta Kaviraj
- Uday Mehta, “Gandhi’s Ambivalence Towards Representation”
- Madhav Khosla, “Ideas of Representation before Independence”
- Hari Ramesh, “B.R. Ambedkar and the Means and Ends of Dalit Representation”
3:30-6:00pm – Panel VII: Representation and Marginalization
Discussant/Chair: Ward Berenschot
- Amit Ahuja, “Voice without Choice: How Parties of the Marginalized Succeed and Fail in Representing Them”
- Sarah Khan, “Personal is Political: Prospects for Women’s Substantive Representation in Pakistan”
- Udit Bhatia, “Public Office Qualifications: Why Disparate Impact Matters”
- Carole Spary,“Women and democratic representation in contemporary India: reflections on achievements and challenges”