Conversations on South Asia: Sumantra Bose

Conversations on South Asia: Sumantra Bose

A conversation on secularism in South Asia, with Sumantra Bose, the author of Secular States, Religious Politics, and most recently, Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st Century Conflict (Yale University Press 2021), and a panel of distinguished scholars.

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SPEAKER

Sumantra Bose

Executive Director and General Secretary of the Netaji Research Bureau

Sumantra Bose is a comparative political scientist. He is the author of eight books, of which six have been published by Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. He majored in political science at Amherst College and graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He received his MA, MPhil and PhD degrees in political science from Columbia University. He taught political science at Wellesley College before joining the London School of Economics and Political Science. At LSE, he was successively The Ralf Dahrendorf Fellow in Comparative Politics (1999-2001), Lecturer in Comparative Politics (2001-2003), Reader in Comparative Politics (2003-2006), and Professor of International and Comparative Politics (2006-2020). He is currently the Executive Director and General Secretary of the Netaji Research Bureau at Netaji Bhawan, Kolkata.

MODERATOR

Chandran Kukathas

Dean, School of Social Sciences
Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Political Science, SMU

Chandran Kukathas is Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Political Science at School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University. He was Head, Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 2015 to 2019. He also served as the Chair of Political Theory in the Department of Government and as Warden of High Holborn and Grosvenor House Halls of Residence at LSE. Before his appointment at LSE, Chandran was Neal A. Maxwell Professor of Political Theory, Public Policy and Public Service at the University of Utah and has taught at the University of New South Wales, Oxford University and the Australian National University. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science at the Australian National University and his Master of Arts in Politics at the University of New South Wales before going on to complete his Doctor of Philosophy in Politics at Oxford University.

DISCUSSANTS

Kanti Bajpai

Vice Dean (Research and Development)
Wilmar Professor of Asian Studies, NUS

Kanti Bajpai’s areas of interest include international security, Indian foreign policy, and national security. His most recent book is India Versus China: Why They are Not Friends (2021). He is also co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020). Prior to this, he was Professor of International Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Professor in the Politics and International Relations of South Asia, Oxford University. From 2003 to 2009, he was Headmaster, The Doon School, India. He taught at the Maharajah Sayajirao University of Baroda and has held visiting appointments at Wesleyan University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has also held visiting appointments at the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace, Notre Dame University, the Brookings Institution, and the Australian Defence Force Academy. Most recently, he was Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.

Ronojoy Sen

Senior Research Fellow and Research Lead
Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS

Ronojoy Sen is Senior Research Fellow (and Research Lead, Politics, Society and Governance) at the Institute of South Asian Studies and the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore. He has worked for over a decade with leading Indian newspapers, most recently as an editor for The Times of India. His latest book is House of the People: Parliament and the Making of Indian Democracy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022). He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago and read history at Presidency College, Calcutta. He has held visiting fellowships at the National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, D.C., the East-West Center Washington and the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Remarks:

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