Authoritarianism, Academic Freedom, and Historical Knowledge Seminar (In Person)

Date and Time

November 6, 2023
04:00PM - 05:30PM EST

Location

CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050)

"India's Democracy in Transition:The Construction of a Hindu Nationalist Republic”

Speaker:

Sumantra Bose, Professor of International and Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chair:

Cemal KafadarFaculty Associate. Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of History; Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Mahia Bashir
mahiabashir@g.harvard.edu

Sumantra Bose’s books include Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside A Twenty-First Century Conflict (Yale UP, 2021) and Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism (Cambridge UP, 2018), and Contested Lands:I srael-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka (Harvard UP, 2007).

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center and the GSAS Workshop on Empire Nation Federation.

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