Christophe Jaffrelot talk on 'Hindu Nationalist Militias' (NY city / 25 March 2009)

Talk at Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (New York)

The Nationalist Hindu Militias

Wednesday, March 25, 12:30-2pm

International Affairs Building, Room 707

420 West 118th Street

A lecture by CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT (Sciences Po-CERI, Paris) on the
rise of ethnic nationalism and ideology in India. Despite its national
defeat in 2004, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
continues to govern large Indian states and remains a major force in
the world's largest djavascript:void(0)emocracy.

Prof Jaffrelot is author of India’s Silent Revolution: The Rise of
the Lower Castes in North India (2003) and The Hindu Nationalist
Movement and Indian Politics (1996) and will be the Alliance Francaise
Visiting Professor at Columbia University in Fall 2009. Moderated by
Alfred Stepan, the Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at
Columbia University. Light lunch will be served.

Co-sponsored by the Alliance Francaise; Southern Asian Institute;
Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion; and the Political
Science Department.