The Great Hydraulic Transition: Modern Origins of Land and Rivers in South Asia
About the Speaker:
Rohan D'Souza
Dr. Rohan D’Souza is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi). He is the author of Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood control in Eastern India (2006). His edited books include The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (2011) and Environment, Technology and Development: Critical and Subversive Essays (2012). He has held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Nonfarm Diversification, Poverty, Economic Mobility, and Income Equality: A Case Study in Village India
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Sino-Indian Maritime Rivalry in the United States
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The Obstacles to India’s Becoming a Great Power
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"Our Family" Documentary Screening & Discussion
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Structured Inequalities: Factors Associated with Spatial Disparities in Maternity Care in India
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Democracy Promotion Under Obama: The Complexities of Reengagement
RSVP cgcs@asc.upenn.edu by October 9, 2009
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Communications Studies, the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), the South Asia Center, the Center for East Asian Studies, and the Middle East Center.
The Budget: Fair Share to Dalits
This event is co-sponsored by CASI as part of the University of Pennsylvania, Department of South Asia Studies: Departmental Colloquium and Occasional Speaker Series 2009-10.
Reorienting India’s Public Institutions
Mr. T.K.A. Nair is the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India. He held this office in the last tenure of the UPA Government and even earlier when I.K. Gujral was India’s Prime Minister during 1997 to 1998.
From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Nair was Chairman of the Public Sector Board. He retired from the Indian Administrative Service in 1997, having held the key positions of Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests (1996 to 1997), and Special Secretary, Planning Commission (1995).