Former Member, Board of Governors, IIM-Lucknow, Chandra Bhan Prasad authored the much-acclaimed “Bhopal Document” [2002] for the State Government of Madhya Pradesh that set the agenda of Dalits Capitalism; Dalits’ case of integration with the market. As India’s first ever Dalit weekly English language columnist with the Delhi based daily newspaper The Pioneer, Prasad’s Dalit Diary confronted the mainstream view of Dalits. A former Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Prasad carried out one of the largest surveys on Dalits’ well-being post economic reforms that resulted in a book, “Defying the Odds; Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs,” cited by leading publications including The Economist, The Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. He is currently completing two books, “Dalit Capitalism a Self- Respect Movement, a Memoire”, and “Caste by 2050—Will Class Have Replaced Caste for the Mercatus Center.”
Prasad is an Affiliated Scholar with the Mercatus Centre, George Mason University. He did a year long study on the “Sudden Collapse of the Barter Order” in east Uttar Pradesh, India, for The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University, and Harvard Business School.
