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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.
Part 1: The World’s Largest Democracy?
How should we assess India’s standing as the “world’s largest democracy,” in theory and practice?
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 05:30 pm
Location: CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010)
This is the launch of the series, featuring the following speakers:
- Sandipto Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research
- 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
Moderator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University
For more information about part one of the series, please click here.
To read more about the overall series, please click here.