May 8, 2020
CANCELED: Sameer Lalwani — Second Coming? Testing the Nuclear Revolution in Pakistan’s Strategic Debates
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Center for Contemporary South Asia
The Center for Contemporary South Asia promotes research, teaching and public engagement on key issues of modern South Asia in an interdisciplinary framework and in a historically and culturally grounded manner.
May 1, 2020
CANCELED: Rikhil Bhavnani — Gandhi's Gift: Successful Mass Nonviolence and India's Decolonization
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 30, 2020
CANCELED: Narendar Pani — Distance Dualism: Rural Workers in India's Urbanization
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 22, 2020
CANCELED: Uday Mehta — Critiquing Empire and the Challenge of Representation: Gandhi and the Nationalists
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 10, 2020
CANCELED: Gautam Nair — Business, Voters, and Distributive Politics in Developing Democracies
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Harvard University, S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Apr 10, 2020
CANCELED: Nosheen Ali — TBD
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 8, 2020
CANCELED: Aanchal Malhotra — TBD
6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert Hall '62, 280 Brook St
Apr 6, 2020
CANCELED: Screening of Recasting Selves and Q&A with Director Lalit Vachani
6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 4, 2020
CANCELED: Feroz Khan — Regional Security and Strategic Stability in Southern Asia
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Birkelund Boardroom, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 3, 2020
COVID-19 and India's Political Economy
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Mar 30, 2020
Gopalkrishna Gandhi — Gandhi: His life in his words beyond 'The Story'
Available starting March 30 at 2 p.m.
Mar 18, 2020
CANCELED: India's Citizenship Debate with Sahana Ghosh, Menaka Guruswamy, Arundhati Katju and Roshan Kishore
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. True North Classroom, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Mar 16, 2020
CANCELED: Student Lunch with Watson Senior Fellow Menaka Guruswamy
This event is for students only.
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Kim Koo Library, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 13, 2020
CANCELED: Tanvi Madan — Fateful Triangle: How China shaped US-India relations during the Cold War
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Lucian Pye Conference Room, E40-496, MIT 1 Amherst St, Cambridge MA
Mar 6, 2020
Ellen Gough — What Makes a Jain not Hindu? Religious Identity and the Indian Festival Calendar
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Feb 28, 2020
Niloufer Siddiqui — Under the Gun: Explaining Party Violence in Karachi
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Birkelund Boardroom, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 21, 2020
Marko Geslani — King's Body, Nature's Sign: Gender and Ornament in the Astral State
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 20, 2020
Atul Kohli — Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Center for Contemporary South Asia
Development and Governance Seminar
Feb 14, 2020
Sahana Ghosh — Four Weddings and a Rice-eating ceremony: A biography of the India-Bangladesh border
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 7, 2020
Rumela Sen — Rebel Retirement Through Informal Exit Networks: Evidence From India
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Jan 31, 2020
Ajantha Subramanian Book Adda — The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Jan 29, 2020
Forum with Sugata Ray
9 a.m. – 11 a.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Dec 6, 2019
Jayita Sarkar — The Ploughshares and Swords in India’s Nuclear Explosion of 1974
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 22, 2019
Thibaud Marcesse — Patronage Guaranteed? The Local Politics of the Right to Work. Public Policy Reform, Citizenship and Patronage in Rural India
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Nov 15, 2019
Shandana Khan Mohmand — Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters: Democracy Under Inequality in Rural Pakistan
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street