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Constructing a Majority: A Micro-Level Study of Voting Patterns in Indian Elections

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Fri, Sep 7, 2018 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

JOINT SEMINAR ON SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS SERIES Francesca R. Jensenius, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Chair: Emmerich Davies, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education   Francesca Jensenius specializes in comparative politics, comparative political economy, and research methods, with […]

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India Seminar Series: ‘Unspoken Story’

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Sat, Aug 25, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:30pm, ET

As part of our ongoing India Seminar Series, we are partnering with Sangath and It’s Ok To Talk for an event titled ‘Unspoken Story’ with Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School, in a conversation about mental health. This event is supported by Welcome Trust and the American Centre, and […]

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The Past, Present and Potential Future of Coal in India

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Thu, Jul 19, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

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Annexe Building, Lecture Room 1, India International Center, New Delhi

India’s coal industry is highly contested today. Between the immediacy of coal shortages, the transition to renewable energy, and air pollution problems, the long history of the coal industry and India’s deep economic and social dependence on the fuel gets lost in conversation. In this talk, Rohit will give a brief historical sketch of the […]

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Roads, Region Formation, and the Question of Tribes in Northeast India

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Wed, Jun 27, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

Ziipao posits that road building has always been an act of power, which has at different times been leveraged to smooth relationships, securing borders, (dis)connecting people, enabling trade, creating spaces of contestation, or diluting boundaries between varied ethnic groups. Read Raile’s recent blog on the People’s Road. 

Presented by Raile Rocky Ziipao
Arvind Raghunathan and Sribala Subramanian South Asia Fellow

Moderated by Nitin A. Gokhale
Journalist and Defence Analyst

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It’s Complicated: Unpacking the Material Consequences of Political Reservation in Bihar

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Tue, May 29, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

This seminar focuses on how political reservation in favour of Scheduled Castes (SC) in Bihar affects inequality in private wealth and access to public goods. It presents research and findings of public good access across all of Bihar’s 45,000 villages and analyses data on private wealth for more than two crore rural households across the state.

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Seventy Years on: Pakistan’s Perils to Democracy

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Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:15pm, ET

Ajmal Qureshi, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; former Representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Uganda and China Chair:  Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus S153, 1st Floor, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Lakshmi […]

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Why Was Partition Not Reversed? How Pakistan Created A Viable Economy

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Wed, Apr 11, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

SAI SEMINAR SERIES Gustav Papanek, President of the Boston Institute for Developing Economies; Professor of Economics Emeritus, Boston University Chair: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, SAI Partition left Pakistan almost bereft of manufacturing – importing most consumer goods, including matches, soap, cloth and yarn, and virtually all machinery. Gustav Papanek […]

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Fellows Seminar: The Question of Tribes in Northeast India

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Thu, Mar 29, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Ziipao posits that road building has always been an act of power, which has at different times been leveraged to smooth relationships, secure borders, (dis)connect people, enable trade, create spaces of contestation, or dilute boundaries between varied ethnic groups.

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Colossus: Delhi in Theory

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Wed, Mar 28, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

India’s National Capital Region now includes parts of four states and about 30 million people. It is in the vanguard of global urban change of a particular type—the rise of the colossal metropolis. What do we know and can say about its spatial structure (and change) and social structure (and change)? How well does existing “urban theory” prepare us for Delhi? To what extent does Delhi prepare us for a new “urban theory”? How much of it is global, how much Indian, and how much just Delhi itself?

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South Asia Without Borders Seminar: The Silk Road to South Asia: From Mongolia to Bangladesh

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Tue, Mar 27, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Ancient records of early Buddhism, recovered from Tibet, identify five great centres of learning a thousand years after the birth of Prince Gautama Buddha. Of the five, two are amongst the four hundred Buddhist sites in Bangladesh; Somapura Mahavihara (Paharpur) and Jaggadala. These centers could not have thrived without patronage and proximity of the Silk Road which brought trade and Buddhism close together. Hasna will discuss a trip she took in 2015 and 2017 to Mongolia in search of a connection between Mongolia and India via Bangladesh. 

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