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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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India Conference 2018

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Sat, Feb 10, 2018 - Sun, Feb 11, 2018, ET

Conference Poster with pictures of the speakers

The India Conference is one of the largest student-run conferences focusing on India in the USA. It takes place at the Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, and is organized by graduate students at Harvard University. In 2018, the India Conference will be celebrating its 15th anniversary. The conference will bring together business leaders, entertainment professionals, […]

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Non-Caste Societies, Epistemology, and Challenges in India: A Tribal Indian’s Perspective

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Wed, Jan 31, 2018 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

As part of the Ambedkar Lecture Series, Dr. Raile Rocky Ziipao (Raghunathan Family Fellow, The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University; Member, Tribal Intellectual Collective India) will speak on the topic of “Non-Caste Societies, Epistemology, and Challenges in India: A Tribal Indians Perspective.”

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Crossroads Summer Program

The Crossroads Summer Program is a fully-funded introduction to Harvard and American university culture for students from the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, and Africa, who are the first in their families to attend college and may also be facing challenging financial and social circumstances. Leading Harvard faculty will teach an intensive, multidisciplinary four-day curriculum in Dubai, for up to 60 accomplished, motivated youth.

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Archive Making and Archival Silences in Mughal Punjab

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Wed, Apr 26, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event Speaker: Purnima Dhavan,  Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor in History at University of Washington Moderators: Sunil Sharma, Professor of Persian & Indian Literatures at Boston University Neelam Khoja, Ph.D. Candidate Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies at Harvard University Lahore, the major urban hub and occasional […]

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Old Stories in New Moments: Digambara Jain Rāmāyaṇa Literature in Early Modernity

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Thu, Mar 30, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Graduate Student Associate Seminar Gregory Clines, Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, SAI Discussant: Catherine Hartmann, Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion The fifteenth-century author Brahma Jinadāsa, a member of the Digambara Balatkāra Gaṇa, is credited with composing over eighty works in both Sanskrit and Old Gujarati. One of […]

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Strength in Numbers: How Women’s Networks Close India’s Political Gender Gap

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Tue, Feb 28, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Graduate Student Associate Seminar Soledad Prillaman, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, SAI Discussant: Zeynep Pamuk, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University In India there persists a striking gender gap in political participation and representation, despite several decades of targeted policy interventions. Women’s political participation is important not […]

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Citizenship Denied: A Microhistory of Indian Immigration in the Early Twentieth Century

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Wed, Feb 8, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Graduate Student Associate Seminar Hardeep Dhillon, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, Harvard University; SAI Graduate Student Associate Discussants: Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Harvard University Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University In the early twentieth century, immigration from Asia to the U.S. propelled local, national, and […]

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Getting Better: Stories from KEM Hospital and GS Medical College, India

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Wed, Oct 26, 2016 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

Student Event Join us for a film screening, dinner, & discussion with Gulserene Dastur, the filmmaker, & Dr. David Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine “The Hospital that never turns anyone away”: A 2200 bed, state-run hospital which treats 1.7 million people a year – overcrowded, used and abused, KEM Hospital […]

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Gandhi’s Forgotten Campaign: The Abolition of Indenture and the Mahatma

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Thu, Sep 15, 2016 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

Student Event Presented by the South Asia Across Disciplines Workshop Mrinalini Sinha, Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History; Professor (by courtesy) of English and Women’s Studies; Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows (2015-), University of Michigan Respondents: Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Professor of History Mou Banerjee, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, Harvard University Cosponsored […]

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The 2015 Nepal Earthquake: Perspectives on Response, Reconstruction, Accountability

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Thu, Apr 28, 2016 from 05:45pm — 07:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Events Join us to remember the lives lost, and to continue the conversation on the public health impact of, and response to, disasters. is event brings together academics, practitioners and students to examine lessons on earthquake response, aid accountability, and health systems strengthening following the disaster that rocked Nepal on April 25, 2015 Bijay Acharya, MD, Massachusetts General […]

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