Book Talk Archives • The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute

Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan’s Northern Frontier

Oct 10, 2019

Delusional States is the first in-depth study of state-making and social change in Gilgit-Baltistan, a Shia-majority region of Sunni-dominated Pakistan and a contested border area that forms part of disputed Kashmir. Ali will discuss how Gilgit-Baltistan’s image within Pakistan as an idyllic paradise overlooks how the region is governed as a suspect security zone and dispossessed through multiple processes of state-making, including representation, militarization, and sectarianized education.

Speakers:

Nosheen Ali, Karti Dharti, Institute for Ecological Studies, Pakistan

Ali Asani, Harvard University, will moderate the discussion

Book Talk: Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia

Apr 3, 2019

Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolji is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College. Her work examines the interplay of gender, race, religion, and power in transnational contexts, particularly in relation to Muslim populations. Dr....

Book Talk: The Future Is Asian

Jan 23, 2019

Parag Khanna, Managing Partner of FutureMap, will discuss his new book entitled “The Future Is Asian,” in a talk chaired by Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of The Mittal Institute. This event is...

India-Pakistan Crises: Risks, Opportunities, and Options for US Crisis Management

Oct 4, 2018

Dr. Moeed Yusuf will present his research on US role in India-Pakistan crisis management, captured in his latest book Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia. The book proposes an original theory to study regional nuclear crises and specifically US role in crisis management.

Book Talk | Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Oct 1, 2018

Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School on his new book, Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries in conversation with Caroline Elkins, Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Book Launch | Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India

Sep 13, 2018

Benjamin Siegel, an assistant professor of History at Boston University and a former fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, will discuss his new book “Hungry Nation: Food Famine, and the making of Modern India”, alongside...

Book Talk | Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries with Tarun Khanna

Aug 21, 2018

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and Harvard Book Store welcome TARUN KHANNA—the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School—for a discussion of his latest book, Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in...

Fireside Chat with Tarun Khanna & Manish Sabharwal

Aug 16, 2018

Join the Harvard Business School India Research Centre and the HBS Club of India for a Fireside Chat with Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, HBS, and Manish Sabharwal, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, TeamLease for a conversation about Prof....

Cleaning Up India? Obstacles and Assets

Dec 15, 2017

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...

Unravelling the Kashmir Knot

Oct 23, 2017

“Unravelling the Kashmir Knot” delves into the questions entangled in the Kashmir issue: Do the rules that created Pakistan make Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) a part of India? Is the routing of the China-Pakistan economic corridor through J&K legal? How did J&K become a “disputed territory”?

Book Talk: The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization

Sep 12, 2017

The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization: The Rise of the Corporate Legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society

A Harvard Law School Library Book Talk

Speakers:
David B. Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School

Vikramaditya S. Khanna, William W. Cook Professor of Law, University of Michigan School of Law School

Commentator:
Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, South Asia Institute, Harvard University

Co-sponsored with the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession and the Harvard University South Asia Institute.

Book Talk: India’s Wars: A Military History 1947-1971

Aug 14, 2017

A book talk on India’s Wars: A Military History 1947-1971 Dr. Arjun Subramaniam, Asia Center Fellow; former Faculty Member, National Defence College, New Delhi; retired Air Vice Marshal, Indian Air Force Chair/Discussant: Professor Sugata Bose, Gardiner...

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