Talk: "Understanding the Indian elections 2014"

A CeMIS Public Event
11 June

The Hindu nationalist party BJP recently won a spectacular electoral victory in India, the world's largest democracy. What does this mean for the present and future of democratic politics? Prof. Amrita Basu from Amherst College, USA, discussed this in her talk "Violent Conjunctures: Hindu Nationalism in Democratic India." Prof. Peter van der Veer, MPI-MMG Göttingen, Prof. Tanika Sarkar, JNU New Delhi and Dr. Dilip Simeon, Aman Trust New Delhi, commented on this talk.