Faculty

SASC Colloquium Series: The Indian First Election, 1951-52, Ornit Shani

SASC Colloquium Series: The Indian First Election, 1951-52
The paper explores the ways women related to and appropriated the notion of popular authorization of the government in the run-up to, and during India’s first elections. It, thus, aims to shed light on the role of women in democratic state-building during the early days of the republic.
Zoom link: https://cutt.ly/SASC421
The event is hybrid, Zoom with limited Yale-only in-person access.

SASC Colloquium Series: 50 Years of Bangladesh

SASC Colloquium Series: 50 Years of Bangladesh
Panel discussion with Nusrat S Chowdhury, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Amherst College; Thomas Newbold, History, University of Chicago; Nazmul S. Sultan, Department of Politics and International Studies, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge.
Zoom link: https://cutt.ly/SASC414
The event is hybrid, Zoom with limited Yale-only in-person access.

SASC Colloquium Series: Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism, Mircea Raianu

SASC Colloquium Series: Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism, Mircea Raianu
Zoom link: https://cutt.ly/SASC310

SASC Colloquium Series: Slavery, Mobility and the Making of the Konkan, Ananya Chakravarti

South Asian Studies Council Colloquium Series: Book Panel: Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India.
A book panel discussion with Rohit De, SASC & History; Kelvin Eng, History; and Doyle Calhoun, French Department.

Databases for Academic Research in India

The South Asian Studies Council and Y-RISE invite you to a research seminar titled ‘Databases for Academic Research in India’ by Mahesh Vyas, MD and CEO of The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) on Friday, 19th November at 4 pm ET.
Event Type: Hybrid (In-person and via zoom)
Date & Time: Friday, 19 November, 4pm – 5pm ET
Location: Evans Hall, Room 4200; Zoom: https://yale.zoom.us/j/98883104811

Sino-Indian Affairs: Competition and Conflict

International Security Studies will host a Virtual Discussion Forum focused on the complex, volatile
relationship between India and China featuring one of India’s most prominent foreign affairs journalists.
Sushant Singh is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in India, founder of The India Cable, and former Deputy Editor of The Indian Express newspaper, where he covered international affairs and national security. He is in residence at Yale this semester as a lecturer in Political Science and South Asian Studies.

SASC Lecture: Why Do Poor Voters Support A Pro-Rich Party In India? Christophe Jaffrelot

The tax policy of NDA II is revealing of its desire to spare some of the better off taxpayers whereas its welfare programs are not as redistribution-oriented as those of the UPA. Still, in 2019, a large number of poor voters have opted for the BJP. While this state of things can be explained by many factors (including the impact of social work and identity politics), in this paper I will focus on the role of caste to suggest that the BJP has attracted the jatis of SCs and OBCs which have not benefited very much from reservations and which happen to be the poorest.

CODED BIAS, A Film by Shalini Kantayya

When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies misclassify women and darker-skinned faces, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms.
Immediately following the screening, Professor Elisa Celis will moderate a discussion with the filmmaker, Shalini Kantayya.

InterAsia online lecture: Professor Manan Ahmed

In this talk, drawn from my book *The Loss of Hindustan*, I sketch an intellectual
geography for understanding the history of Firishta, written in early seventeenth century
Deccan. The world of the Deccan is both connected to the Indian Ocean circuits,
sketched in Arabic merchant accounts and histories, as well to the network of city-states,
represented by the Persian histories produced in Uch or Delhi. The immediate milieu of
Firishta under the ʿAdil Shahi was a polyphonic Hindustan where the exchange of

PRFDHR Seminar: The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Violence in Myanmar, Dr. Paula López Peña

The Rohingya crisis is one of the world’s worst ongoing human-rights atrocities, but its causes are contested and its consequences are poorly understood. Dr. López Peña and her co-authors marshal a variety of existing and original data to shed light on its drivers, characteristics, and human cost. First, in contrast with the government’s preferred narrative, they show that violence against civilians in Myanmar clearly responds to economic motives: it increases during times when international rice prices are high, in places suitable for rice cultivation.