Feb 21, 2025
Yamini Aiyar — Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi's schools
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST McKinney Conference Rm, 111 Thayer St
Book Adda
Adda means a site for collective deliberation in South Asia. This series features panel discussion of important new books written by our colleagues or those significantly involved with the Saxena Center as intellectual interlocutors.
Feb 14, 2025
Oct 10, 2024
Chandan Gowda — Another India
4:00pm - 6:00pm EST Leung Conference Room, 280 Brook Street
Sep 20, 2024
Sudev Sheth — Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Mar 15, 2024
SherAli Tareen Book Adda — Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Mar 1, 2024
Swapnil Rai Book Adda — Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Nov 3, 2023
Tariq Thachil Book Adda — Migrants and Machine Politics
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 13, 2023
Manoj Mitta — Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institue
Sep 19, 2023
Vazira Zamindar & Tapati Guha-Thakurta Book Adda — How Secular is Art?
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Dec 9, 2022
Christopher Clary Book Adda — The Difficult Politics of Peace
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Nov 18, 2022
Gopalkrishna Gandhi & Tridip Suhrud Book Adda — Scorching Love
10:00am - 11:30am EST / 8:30pm - 10:00pm IST
May 2, 2022
Rajesh Veeraraghavan Book Adda — Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India
4:00pm - 6:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Apr 22, 2022
Joy Ma & Dilip D' Souza '84Sc.M Book Adda — The Deoliwallahs
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Mar 11, 2022
Paul Staniland Book Adda — Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Oct 6, 2021
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy — A Book Adda
4:00pm - 6:00pm EST Register to join the webinar.
Apr 2, 2021
Feb 11, 2021
Dec 3, 2020
Oct 16, 2020
Jan 31, 2020
Ajantha Subramanian Book Adda — The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Nov 1, 2019
Rohit De Book Adda — A People’s Constitution: Law and Everyday Life in the Indian Republic
2pm – 4pm Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center
Sep 28, 2018
Mar 21, 2018
Sep 29, 2017
Milan Vaishnav – When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle In Indian Politics a Book Adda
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Sep 22, 2017