A Symposium on Gananath Obeyesekere’s book 'The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience' was held on 5 November 2013 at India International Centre. The speakers were Gananath Obeyesekere,
Arjun Appadurai delivered the Golden Jubilee Lecture on Deep Modernization, Imperialism and the European Enlightenment at CSDS on 21 January 2013. This lecture seeks to explain why, in the very period in which Europe was defining and exp...
Changing Electoral Politics in Delhi: From Caste to Class authored by Sanjay Kumar was released on 21 August 2013 at India International Centre, New Delhi. It was followed by a discussion on the book and the panelists were: Suhas Palshik...
Speaker: Tapati Guha Thakurta Venue: CSDS Seminar Hall Time: 6pm In view of the transformed profile of the Durga Pujas as one of contemporary Kolkata’s biggest public art events, this Golden Jubilee Lecture critically interrogates
The Parekh Institute of Indian Thought directed by Rajeev Bhargava was inaugurated on 15 July 2013 by Hon’ble Shri M Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India at India International Centre, New Delhi. The Institute set up at CSDS intends t...
Lokniti, a research programme of the CSDS, launched the journal Studies in Indian Politics on 18 July 2013. The journal was launched by Mrinal Miri, Chairman, Board of Governors, CSDS and Member of Parliament, Government of India. Studie...
Pratiman, a Hindi journal of social science was launched by the Indian Languages Programme of the Centre. It is a peer reviewed research journal to be published twice a year in Hindi. Noted Urdu and Persian scholar, novelist and critic, ...
Measuring Voting Behaviour in India co-authored by Sanjay Kumar and Praveen Rai was released on 17 April 2013 at India International Centre. The release was followed by a discussion on the book. The discussants were Sudha Pai, Rajdeep Sa...
A Panel Discussion on The Peasant, then and now: Thirty years of Ranajit Guha’s Elementary Aspects was held on 15 February 2013 at CSDS Seminar Hall, Delhi. The panelists were: Shahid Amin, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Partha Chatterjee and Gay...