India Votes 2024: The World’s Largest Democracy?

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Location
S010, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Sponsors
Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University
Harvard University Asia Center
Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
Department of History, Harvard University
Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
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India Votes 2024: A Four-Part Series on the Indian Elections

2024 is a significant election year globally with more voters than ever before heading to the polls. India will hold the largest election of them all and is one of several South Asian countries to have national votes this year. This four-part series – led by Harvard Professors Arunabh Ghosh, Maya Jasanoff and Vastal Naresh – will feature cutting-edge scholars across the social sciences and media who will come together over the next two months to provoke discussions about democracy, the press, and diasporic politics that resonate with parallel trends in the U.S., Asia, and globally. Learn more and RSVP

Part 1: The World’s Largest Democracy?
How should we assess India’s standing as the “world’s largest democracy,” in theory and practice?

This is the launch of the series, featuring the following speakers:

  • Sandipto Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of Politics at the New School, and author of Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony
  • Sushant Singh, Senior Fellow at Centre for Policy Research
  • Raheel Dhattiwala, Baden-Wurttemberg Fellow at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, and author of Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002

Moderator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University

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