Lydia H. Liu delivered a Golden Jubilee lecture on ‘Shadows of Universalism: The Untold Story of Human Rights Around 1948’ on 19 March 2014 at CSDS. This is the story of how the postwar norms of human rights confronted the classical standa...
Mehr Afshan Farooqi delivered a talk on ‘The Nightingale of Future’s Garden: Reflections on the “Rejected” Corpus of Ghalib’ on 4 March 2014 at CSDS. The talk presented an overview of the so called discarded ghazals and.
Romila Thapar delivered a golden Jubilee Lecture on ‘Representations of the Past in Early North India’ on 5 March 2014 at CSDS. Societies remember their pasts in diverse ways and their representations take various forms. Among them some.
‘Researching the Contemporary' is a two-month Course that would be held at CSDS in the months of July-August 2014. This cross-disciplinary Course will critically examine the formation of the contemporary and its multiple histories, ideologie...
William R. Pinch delivered a special lecture on ‘When was Caste? Some reflections on early modern South Asia’ at CSDS on 27 February 2014. This lecture was part of the conference on ‘The Caste Question and the Historian’s Craft’
Rajan Gurukkal delivered a special lecture on ‘Proliferation of Caste: A Historical Explanation’ at CSDS on 26 February 2014. This lecture was part of the conference on ‘The Caste Question and the Historian’s Craft’. The.
Applications are invited for the posts of Research Associate and Research Assistant. The last date for the receipt of applications closed on 28 February 2014. Please send your applications by email to Ms. Jayasree Jayanthan on jaya(at)csds.in or b...
Deepak Nayyar delivered a golden Jubilee lecture on ‘Globalization and Democracy’ at CSDS on 21 February 2014. The lecture focused on the gathering momentum of globalization in the world economy, since 1980, has coincided with the spread.
Applications invited for Summer Workshop on ‘Analyzing Quantitative Data on Indian Politics’ to be held in Bengaluru between 7-18 July 2014. The workshop is organized by Lokniti-Programme for Comparative Democracy, CSDS in collaboration.
