Brown-India Seminar

Brown-India seminars are the centerpiece of the Initiative. Through this series of public lectures, the India Initiative facilitates a convergence of figures from across the lines of academia, civil society, literature, public policy, and journalism to contribute to the discourse on contemporary India.

The seminars featured on this page demonstrate the interdisciplinary approach of the Brown-India Initiative and  constitute a comprehensive archive of the series with links to video recording of the events when available.

Spring 2013

	Friday, May 3, 2013 Yogendra Yadav, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Brown-India Initiative Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow “The Idea of Equality in 20th Century India” [VIDEO]
	Friday, April 5, 2013 Ananya Vajpeyi, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies “B.R Ambedkar: Reshaping the Political Imagination in Modern India” [VIDEO]
	Friday, March 15, 2013 Gyanendra Pandey, Emory "Modern Prejudice: 'Vernacular' and 'Universal'" [VIDEO]
	Thursday, March 14, 2013 Ruby Lal, Emory "Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness" [VIDEO]
	Friday, March 8, 2013 Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies "Citizen Claim-Making Strategies in Rural Rajasthan: Who Makes Demands for Public Services and How?"
	Friday, February 15, 2013 Thad Dunning, Yale "Parties, Caste, and Distribution in India: Grassroots Political Mobilization in Cross-State Perspective"
	Monday, February 4, 2013 Nirupama Rao, Ambassador of India to the US "America's 'Asian Pivot:' the View from India" [VIDEO COMING SOON!]

Fall 2012

	Friday, November 30, 2012 Emmanuel Teitelbaum, George Washington University "Low-Profile Resources and Insurgent Violence: Evidence from India" [VIDEO]
	Friday, November 2, 2012 Simon Chauchard, Dartmouth "Do Electoral Quotas Affect Beliefs about the Scheduled Castes? Evidence from Rural India" [VIDEO]
	Thursday, October 25, 2012 Rachel Dwyer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London "Filming the Gods: Hindu Religious Genres and Myth Making in Hindi Cinema" Tuesday, October 23, 2012 "Islamicate or Islamophobic?: Muslims in Hindi Cinema"
	Friday, October 19, 2012 Barkha Dutt, Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow "The Unquiet Land: Exploring India's Fault Lines" [VIDEO]
	Friday, October 12. 2012 Rana Dasgupta, Novelist "Intimations of Futurity: Delhi, New Elites and the World" [VIDEO]
	Friday, October 5, 2012 Uday S. Mehta, City University of New York Graduate School "Gandhi's Ambivalence Towards Democracy" [VIDEO]
	Friday, September 28, 2012 S.M. Krishna, External Affairs Minister of India Brown-India Initiative Inaguration [VIDEO]
	Friday, September 21, 2012 Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University "Soccer and Collective Identity in Colonial Calcutta" [VIDEO]