Ashwini Deshpande on Gender and Caste Discrimination and Affirmative Action in India

In this episode, Shruti speaks with Ashwini Deshpande about caste discrimination in labor markets, the reservation system and its critiques, education of women, how endogamy perpetuates caste, Bollywood films and much more. Deshpande is a professor of economics and the founding director of the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis at Ashoka University. Her Ph.D. and early publications have been on the international debt crisis of the 1980s. Subsequently, she has been working on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action, with a focus on caste and gender in India. She is the author of "The Grammar of Caste: Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India" and "Affirmative Action in India."

Recorded July 7th, 2022

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