Conference awards
2025 Conference award winners
Best Paper Award
Winner
Aindrila Chatterjee, Amit J. Chauradia, Kiran Pedada: Caste-Based Homophily, Value Delivery, and the Moderating Role of Deprived Status: A Study on Rural Social Microentrepreneurs in India
Finalists
Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday, Anukriti Dixit, Sujatha Subramanian: Margin to Margin Solidarities: Caste, Coloniality, and Global Networks of Oppression
Jothsna Rajan, Manu Bansal: Building Roads, Bridging Gaps? The Role of Ethnic Composition in Rural Infrastructure Delays
Jothsna Rajan, Manu Bansal: Building Roads, Bridging Gaps? The Role of Ethnic Composition in Rural Infrastructure Delays
Best PhD Paper Award
Winner
Nandagopan, Anirban Ghatak: ‘Bound by Caste: Occupational Mobility and the Limits of Categories’
Finalists
Gopinath Annadurai, Deepak Malghan: ‘India Lives in Her Hamlets: Asymmetric Caste Segregation in Rural India’











