“Castes and Minorities: State and Constitution in a Majoritarian Electocracy” | 4th Sri. Hunasikote Abdul Ghaffar Annual Memorial Lecture

The 4th Sri. Hunasikote Abdul Ghaffar Annual Memorial Lecture is being organised on March 15, 2024 from 2.30 – 4.30 pm. The lecture titled “Castes and Minorities: State and Constitution in a Majoritarian Electocracy,” will be delivered by our guest speaker Prof. Satish Despande.

About the Lecture Series

This memorial lecture was initiated by the Institute of Public Policy with the support of Prof. Adbul Aziz, Chair on Religious Minorities, NLSIU in memory of his father Sri. Hunasikote Abdul Ghaffar. Mr. Ghaffar passed away in 1982 in Hunasikote at the age of 74.

The first lecture in this series was delivered by Prof. Karkala Seetharam on April 3, 2019 on the topic “Human Rights as Public Policy.” The second lecture was delivered by Shri. Cyril Diengdoh, IAS, on April 4, 2022 on the topic “Challenges of NREGA in Sixth Schedule Areas.”

About the Speaker

Prof. Deshpande currently is Prof. M.N Srinivas Chair Professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. He has worked as a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He has also worked at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the Institute of Economic Growth (both in Delhi) and the University of Hyderabad. His research interests include caste and class inequalities, higher education today, politics and history of the social sciences, issues of language in academia and contemporary social theory. He has various national and international publications to his credit.