India Votes 2024: The World’s Largest Democracy?

Date: 

Wednesday, March 6, 2024, 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

This spring, the The Lakshmi Mittal and Family Institute will host a series of events focused on the Indian elections, from how they are covered to what it means regionally and globally. This is the launch of the series, focusing on

How should we assess India’s standing as the “world’s largest democracy,” in theory and practice?

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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

Co-sponsors: Harvard Asia Center, Harvard University Department of History, Grad Students for South Asian Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of South Asian Studies
Contact: mittalsai@fas.harvard.edu