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South Asia Without Borders Seminar: Divine Kingdoms of the Western Himalaya: From Subjects to Citizens

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Tue, Mar 20, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Professor Sax will discuss the pre-colonial society of the Western Himalayas, which consisted of small territories ruled by local devatas (Hindu deities) through their oracles. He will provide ethnographic details of the system as it still exists, paying special attention to how it has adapted to the modern, secular Indian republic.

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Cleaning Up India? Obstacles and Assets

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Mon, Mar 19, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET

Assa Doron, Australian National University Robin Jeffrey, Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore Chair: Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India (Harvard UP, 2018) examines national assets and obstacles for achieving a cleaner India. The authors argue that obstacles that appear unique to India […]

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State of Housing Conference: Housing in the Emerging Urban India

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Thu, Mar 15, 2018 - Sat, Mar 17, 2018, ET

The conference attempts to bring together varied interests, perspectives and contexts that go into an understanding of the state of housing in India, which straddles a spectrum of stakeholders and actors including architects, urban designers, planners, local governance bodies, private real-estate developers, financial institutions and policy-makers.

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SAI Director Tarun Khanna to speak at Babson India Symposium

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Sat, Mar 10, 2018 from 08:00am — 06:00pm, ET

SAI Director Tarun Khanna will deliver the opening Keynote Address at the Babson India Symposium. The symposium will explore entrepreneurship in India. Other featured speakers include Abhinav Bindra, Olympic gold medalist and entrepreneur; Malini Agarwal, founder and blogger-in-chief at MissMalini.com;  Harsha Agadi, president and CEO of Crawford & Company.  The symposium will end with a performance from the Berklee School of Music’s India Ensemble.

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Pre-Texts with Doris Sommer

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Fri, Mar 9, 2018 from 12:00pm — 02:00pm, ET

In collaboration with partners in the Indian education and public health sectors, Professor Doris Sommer (FAS and Director of Cultural Agents) hopes to contribute to development in India with Pre-Texts by engaging local strengths to promote: Literacy, Innovation, and Citizenship. The seminar includes lunch and will be followed by a demonstration of Pre-Texts with audience participation.

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1947 Partition of British India

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Thu, Mar 8, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

To launch the official opening, The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute (SAI), Harvard University, India Office will be hosting a series of events in March and April. For the first event, feminist historian Uma Chakravarti and feminist publisher Urvashi Butalia will give a seminar on Partition.

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The Question of Tribes in North East India

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Fri, Mar 2, 2018 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

SAI Fellow Raile Rocky Ziipao will discuss social dynamics and infrastructure development in India’s frontier and border region. His research on the frontier highways uses the philosophy of Indigenous methodology (perspective from within). Link to the event page at Brown. 

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