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Hindu Nationalism Before Modi
April 22, 2022 at 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
FreeThe Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science invites you to attend a talk with Dr. Vinay Sitapati.
India’s Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making and this talk provides the backstory.
The talk begins with the creation of Hindu nationalism, moves on to the 1980 formation of the Bharatiya Janata Partyand ends with its first national administration, from 1998 to 2004.
By revisiting these events, we can trace the Modi government’s current dominance of Indian politics all the way back to its origins.
About the Speaker
Dr. Vinay Sitapati is associate professor of Political Science at Ashoka University (India) and is currently a visiting associate professor at Princeton University. He has degrees from Harvard Law School and a PhD from Princeton University.
Dr. Sitapati is also the author of two bestselling books—Half-Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India and India Before Modi: How The BJP Came to Power. His works have appeared in the Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, the Harvard Black Letter Law Journal and the International New York Times
