Prasenjit Duara delivered the Rajni Kothari Lecture on ‘Comparing Secularisms: An East Asian Perspective’ on 5 April 2019 at CSDS. The lecture was chaired by Rajeev Bhargava. Rajni Kothari Lectures are instituted in honour of the...
Mahmood Mamdani delivered the Rajni Kothari Lecture on ‘Thinking of Justice through Africa’s Experience in the 20th Century’ on 4 April 2018 at CSDS. The lecture was chaired by Aditya Nigam. In this lecture...
Jayadeva Uyangoda delivered the Rajni Kothari Lecture on ‘Modern Buddhisms and Democracy: Diverse Encounters in India and Sri Lanka’ on 7 April 2017 at CSDS. The lecture was chaired by Peter Ronald deSouza. Rajni Kothari Lectures...
Arindam Chakrabarti delivered the Rajni Kothari Lecture on ‘We the People: General Will (volonté générale) Re-Considered’ on 18 December 2015 at CSDS. Rajni Kothari Lectures are instituted in honour of the CS...
Alfred Stepan delivered the Rajni Kothari Lecture on ‘The Theravada Buddhist Puzzle: Why Inclusionary Founding Doctrines and Exclusionary Contemporary Politics?’ on 2 May 2014 at CSDS. The founding doctrines of Theravada Buddhism...
Shahid Amin delivered the Rajni Kothari Lecture on ‘Community Formation and the Recognition of Difference: The Image of a Turkic Warrior’ on 6 February 2013 at CSDS. Difference is seen today not as impeding the development of the...
Arif Dirlik delivered the Rajni Kothari on ‘The Idea of a ‘Chinese Model’: A Critical Discussion’ on 16 September 2011 at CSDS. The lecture will take up some questions thrown up by the idea of a “Chinese model.&rdqu...
Charles Taylor delivered the Rajni Kothari Lecture on ‘Democratic Social Imaginaries’ on 5 May 2011 at CSDS. The lecture was chaired by D L Sheth. Rajni Kothari Annual Lectures are instituted in honour of the CSDS Founder Directo...
Abdellah Hammoudi delivered the Rajni Kothari Lecture on ‘Giving and receiving yeast: or how to keep radically differing identities together’ on 15 December 2010 at CSDS. Rajni Kothari Lectures are instituted in honour of the CSD...