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Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
Monday
09
March
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The challenges to India’s credentials as a democratic republic

Prof. Mukulika Banerjee, South Asia Centre, London School of Economics
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Auditorium A2, Maison de la paix, Geneva

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As India marks the 70th anniversary of being a Democratic Republic, a range of democratic freedoms and republican values are currently under assault by the government. The riposte from citizens has been spontaneous and robust, with women in particular taking the initiative. How do we make sense of these developments? What do they signify about the career of Indian democracy, electoral politics and political parties? Are the protests against the newly implemented CAA (January 2020) an evidence of a broader and more substantive democracy at work? Prof. Banerjee will offer some reflections based on long-term research on rural India and drawing on her forthcoming monograph Cultivating Democracy.

Mukulika Banerjee is the inaugural Director of the LSE South Asia Centre and is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE). She studied at the universities of Delhi and Oxford and taught at Oxford and UCL before joining LSE. She has conducted ethnographic research in Pakistan between 1990-1993 and in India since 1998. She has published widely and her books include Why India Votes? (2014), The Pathan Unarmed (2001) and The Sari (2003) and edited Muslim Portraits (2007). She is currently completing a monograph entitled Cultivating Democracy on the social imaginaries of democracy based on fifteen years of research in rural India.

In collaboration with the Geneva-Asia Society

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