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Past Events

Retreat or Remain? Notions of a Full Life and a Slow Death from Sundarbans’ Eroding Coastlines
Megnaa Mehtta
February 20, 2025
Navigating Precarity: Artists on Gender, Race and Caste
Chelsey Luster, Bhumika Saraswati, and Shrujana N. Shridhar
February 19, 2025
The Birth of Indian Liberalism
Rahul Sagar
February 13, 2025
Politics of Muslim Representation: Ideas and Trajectories
Hilal Ahmed
November 21, 2024
A People's Court? Insurgent Lawyering and Social Movements in India in the 1980s
Rohit De
November 14, 2024
Mandate 2024: The Possibilities and Limits of Competitive Welfarism
Yamini Aiyar
November 7, 2024
Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India (A Book Symposium)
Sudev Sheth
October 24, 2024
Can the Subaltern Sweat?
Bharat Jayram Venkat
October 17, 2024
Vāyu Śāstra, Varṣā Jñān: Arranging a Science of Wind or Rain in Twentieth-Century India
Sarah Carson
October 10, 2024
Building Global Health Research from India for the World
Dr. Gagandeep Kang
September 26, 2024
Consequences of the Swachh Bharat Mission: Minor Height Gains and Major Survey Pains
Sangita Vyas
September 12, 2024
Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History
Fahad Ahmad Bishara
May 2, 2024
Means to Enhancing Hindu-Muslim Unity in Contemporary India
A. Faizur Rahman
April 25, 2024
Polluted Transformations of Fluid Commons: Dismantling Ships in Southeast Coastal Bangladesh
Camelia Dewan
April 19, 2024
Stories of Climate Action: Framing and Fabricating Futures in Mumbai
April 17, 2024
B. R. Ambedkar in/and America: A Reflection on Caste and Comparison
Anupama Rao
April 11, 2024
Mira Jacob: Reading and Conversation
Mira Jacob
April 8, 2024
Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance
Karthik Muralidharan
April 4, 2024
"All That Breathes" Film Screening and Q&A with Director Shaunak Sen
Shaunak Sen
April 2, 2024
Community Capital: Agrarian Transitions and Waste Economies in Urban India
Vinay Gidwani
March 21, 2024