The sociology of elites in Contemporary India

Date de début:

04 Janvier 2016 - 09:30

Date de fin:

05 Janvier 2016 - 17:30

Type d'événement:

Colloque

Publié ici :

21 Octobre 2015

Mis à jour le :

05 Juillet 2017

Mots-clefs:

Inde
élites
pouvoir
inégalités
Occupy

Zone géographique:

Asie

Elites can be broadly defined as “those who have vastly disproportionate control over or access to a resource”1. The study of this privileged fraction of society currently experiences a revival that can partly be explained by the rising level of inequalities. The “Occupy Wall Street” movement of 2011 shed light on this renewed interest of scholars and activists, who make an extensive use of the latest researches produced by social scientists. More recently, the successs of Thomas Piketty’s book helped to shed light on the role this fraction of society plays in the production of inequalities. A whole body of quantitative and qualitative research has been produced by researchers over the last few years, including prosopographic studies of business leaders, Multiple Correspondence Analyses of the field of economic power, historical studies of the business elites, network analyses of corporate interlocks, qualitative studies of the formal and informal modes of sociability among the elite, ethnography of elite clubs, studies of conspicuous consumption, etc. From the early works of Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, Thorstein Veblen and C. Wright Mills to today’s researches, the sociology of elites can draw on a very rich and diverse body of works. Nonetheless, the scholarship on the elite in India is very limited. The well established traditions of studying social networks of the elite, their educational background, their biographies, their family life, their exclusive social clubs, their culture or their neighborhoods have not still been appropriated by scholars working on the Indian society and very few researchers are currently trying to fill this gap. This is all the more surprising as India is currently the World’s third economic power in terms of Purchasing Power Parity (and the 10th in terms of GDP nominal value). To give just one figure, according to the Wall Street Journal, in 2013, India had a total of 182,000 millionaires (in dollars)2.

This conference intends to bring together scholars conducting researches that could help develop a better understanding of the various privileged sections of the Indian society. As their actions, their choices, their ways of thinking, etc. have a major impact on the rest of society, it is indeed decisive to get a better sociological understanding of the lifestyles and the trajectories of the individuals who compose this group.

The conference will more specifically address the following issues:

- The reconfiguration of regional and local elites
- The interlocking of the economic, administrative and political elites
- The drawing of symbolic boundaries between the competing fractions of the elite
- The lifestyles of the elite (social clubs, leisure, cultural practices)
- The social capital and the networks of the elite
- The territories of the elite
- The pathways to the elite (trajectories, educational institutions, reproduction of privileges)
- Methodological issues in “studying up” in the Indian context
- The business elite and its intermediaries: chartered accountants, consultants, brokers and equity analysts.
- Caste and the elite

Scientific Committee

Amita BAVISKAR (Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, India)
Sébastien CHAUVIN (Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Bruno COUSIN (University of Lille 1, Lille, France)
Satish DESHPANDE (Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, New Delhi)
Christophe JAFFRELOT (SciencesPo, France/King’s College, UK/Princeton, USA)
Surinder JODHKA (JNU, New Delhi, India)
Michèle LAMONT (Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma., USA)
Jules NAUDET (CSH, New Delhi, India)
Gilles VERNIERS (Ashoka University, New Delhi, India)

Organizing Committee

Surinder JODHKA (JNU, New Delhi, India)
Jules NAUDET (CSH, New Delhi, India)
Gilles VERNIERS (Ashoka University, New Delhi, India)

Date and venue: JNU Convention Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 4-5 January 2016.

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