The Ethnic Fighting in Myanmar and Impact on Northeast India
Rupakjyoti Borah
February 17, 2025
In this issue of India in Transition, Rupakjyoti Borah (JFSS, Tokyo) discusses how New Delhi will need to do some out-of-the-box thinking to mitigate the impact of the ethnic fighting in Myanmar on its Northeastern region.
CASI in the News
CASI Director Tariq Thachil and CASI Non-Resident Visiting Scholar Adam Auerbach (SAIS, JHU) are the winners of the 2025 Association for Asian Studies' Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize—which "honors a distinguished work of scholarship in South Asian Studies that promises to define or redefine the understanding of whole subject areas"—for their book Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness (Princeton University Press, 2023).
Meet CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Shahana Sheikh (Video)
Shahana Sheikh studies political parties, political behavior, and party-voter linkages, with a regional focus on South Asia. Her research agenda is centered on how party strategy, campaigns, and political participation in developing democracies are shaped by significant transformations associated with development—especially, shifts in media and communication technology, urbanization, and environmental degradation.
CASI Student Programs
Applications for 2025 CASI Summer Research Grants are now OPEN! Deadline to apply: Monday, March 17, 2025, 11:59pm EST.
CASI Summer 2025 Internship in India applications are now closed. Thanks to all who applied!
Read all about Summer Interns and Summer Research Grant recipients' experiences on the CASI Student Programs Blog!
Questions about CASI Student Programs?
Please contact Juni Bahuguna (Assistant Director, Student & Visitor Programs) at junib@sas.upenn.edu
Upcoming Events
February 19, 2025, 4:30pm at Annenberg School for Communication, Room 500
"Navigating Precarity: Artists on Gender, Race and Caste"
An Art Exhibit, Reception, and Panel Discussion (in partnership with Center for Media Risk, CASI, South Asia Studies Dept, and CARGC)
2024-25 CASI Seminar Series
February 20, 2025, 12 noon at CASI
"Retreat or Remain? Notions of a Full Life and a Slow Death from Sundarbans’ Eroding Coastlines"
CASI / South Asia Center / South Asia Studies Dept / EnviroLab / Environmental Innovations Initiative Seminar with Megnaa Mehtta (University College London)
February 25, 2025, 12 noon at PSPSE (Blank Forum)
CASI / South Asia Center / PDRI-DevLab / Political Science Dept Seminar with Nikhar Gaikwad (Columbia University)
February 27, 2025, 12 noon at CASI
"Dushkal Temporalities: Reframing Time in Planning for the Climate Crisis"
CASI / South Asia Center / Anthropology Dept Seminar with Lalitha Kamath (TISS, Mumbai; Penn Fulbright-Nehru Scholar)
March 5, 2025, 4:30pm at CASI
"AIIMS New Delhi and the Tumultuous Beginnings of Indian Biomedicine"
CASI / South Asia Center / South Asia Studies Dept / Dept of History and Sociology of Science / CGH Seminar with Kiran Kumbhar (CASI)
View Complete Spring 2025 Events List
SAVE THE DATE: Spring 2025 Saluja Global Fellow Lecture & Performance
March 27, 2025, 4:30pm at PSPSE
"The Complex World of 21st Century Hindustani Music: Perspectives of an Insider-Outsider"
Registration Coming Soon!
CASI Spring 2025 Saluja Global Fellow Lecture & Performance with renowned vocalist Shubha Mudgal. Accompanied by Drs. Aneesh Pradhan (tabla) & Kedar Naphade (harmonium)
Campus Location
CASI's office is located close to the heart of Penn's campus at the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics at 133 South 36th Street (Suite 230) Philadelphia, PA 19104-6215.
