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The Challenge to Diversity and Democracy in India Today

Tuesday 05 June 2018 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Hosted by the Ralph Miliband Programme

Old Theatre, Old Building

Speaker

Yogendra Yadav

Chair

Dr Robin Archer

What can we learn from the current challenge to the idea of a diverse and democratic India? Does this demand rethinking the idea of India as a “State-Nation”?

Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) is a nationally-renowned Indian psephologist, an expert on comparative democracy and National President of the newly-formed Swaraj India party.

Robin Archer is Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme at LSE.

The Ralph Miliband Programme (@RMilibandLSE) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free social inquiry.

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