India

GROWTH & ECONOMICS: How Far can India Rise?

Date/Time: Thursday, 9 March 2023 | 3pm UK / 8.30pm India

Industrialists & international investors are more optimistic about India's domestic growth than the rest of the world. What underpins this?

SPEAKERS: Kaushik Basu (@kaushikcbasu) is an economist, currently Carl Marks Professor of International Studies, Cornell University, USA; Jayati Ghosh (@Jayati1609) is Professor of Economics at the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachussetts Amherst.

DISCUSSANT/CHAIR: Alnoor Bhimani (@AlnoorBhimani) is Director, LSE South Asia Centre, and Professor of Management Accounting at LSE.

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INDIA @ 75

Experiences with Adjudication: Reconciling Rights, Identities & Prejudices

Wednesday | 22 June 2022 | 6.30pm UK | Hong Kong Lecture Theatre, LSE

A special lecture to commemorate 'India @ 75' by Hon'ble Dr Justice D. Y. Chandrachud , Sitting Judge of Supreme Court of India & incoming Chief Justice of India. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Moderator: Sanam Arora (@arora_sanam) is an LSE alumnus, and Founder & Chairperson of National Indian Students & Alumni Union (@NISAU_UK), UK.

Chair: Alnoor Bhimani (@AlnoorBhimani) is Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE), and Professor of Management Accounting (@LSE_Accounting), LSE.

This event is in collaboration with National Indian Students and Alumni Union (NISAU), UK.

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IRELAND@100 -- INDIA@75

INTERNATIONALISM AND EMPIRE

This specially curated Roundtable commemorates the centenary of Ireland and the 75th anniversary of India's independence; it explores a less known connection between Ireland & India in the interwar period -- internationalism, and the League against Imperialism.

Date/Time: Thursday | 21 October 2021 | 3.30pm UK | 8pm India

Speakers: Disha Karnad Jani (@DishaKJani) is a Doctoral Researcher in modern European & global/international History at Princeton University, and has a particular interest in internationalism; Michele Louro (@LouroMichele) is Associate Professor of History at Salem State University, Massachusetts, and author of Comrades against Imperialism: Nehru, India and Interwar Internationalism (2018); Eunan O'Halpin is Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin, and author of Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality during the Second World War (2008); Fredrik Petersson is Lecturer in History, Stockholm University, Associate Professor in Colonial & Postcolonial Global History at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, and has published on the League Against Imperialism (2017).

Discussant: Martin Bayly (@mjbayly) is Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE, and author of Taming the Imperial Imagination: Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808-1878 (2016).

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).