Lent Term 2020

She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen

Thursday, 12 March

Speaker: Katie Hickman (@khickmanauthor) is the authour of She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India 1600 – 1900 (2019). 

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, South Asia Centre, LSE.

This event is in collaboration with the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia.

India 2020: Peculiar Changes in the Fiscal Structure of the Governments of India

Friday, 28 February

Speaker: Rathin Roy (@EmergingRoy) is Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi.

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, South Asia Centre, LSE.

This event is in collaboration with India UK Young Professional Nework.

Governance & Public Sector Modernisation in Sri Lanka

Thursday, 6 February

Panelists: Ali Cheema (LUMS, Lahore); Michael Moore (Sussex); Susil Premajayantha (H’ble Minister for International Cooperation); Sugath Ranugge (Chairman, National Salaries & Cadre Commission); and Chandima Wickramasinghe (Additional Secretary, Presidential Secretariat).

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, South Asia Centre, LSE.

This event is in collaboration with UNDP, Sri Lanka and the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo.

Rakhine, Assam and Citizenship in India

Tuesday, 4 February

Speakers: Daniel Aguirre (@KDanielAguirre) is Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Roehampton; Mabrur Ahmed (@restlessmabrur) is Founder and Co-Director of Restless Beings; Rahima Begum (@RestlessRahima) is Founder and Co-Director of Restless Beings; Meenakshi Ganguly (@mg2411) is South Asia Director at Human Rights Watch UK; and Tarunabh Khaitan (@tarunkhaitan) is Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory and the Hackney Fellow in Law at Wadham College, University of Oxford (via Skype).

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, South Asia Centre, LSE.

Listen to the podcast here. 

The Indian Republic at 70: Crisis or Continuity? 

Monday, 27 January

Speakers: Mukulika Banerjee (@MukulikaB) is Director, South Asia Centre, and Associate Professor in Anthropology, LSE; Shruti Kapila (@shrutikapila) is Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge; Basharat Peer (@BasharatPeer) is Editor (Opinion section), The New York Times. 

Chair: Rajesh Venugopal (@rajeshvenugopal) is Associate Professor in International Development, LSE.

Listen to the podcast here.