Ending the Legacy of Division
Saturday, August 2, 1pm - 6 pm
Earl Hall, Columbia University
A conference organized on the ocassion of India's 50th independence anniversary. Topics covered by the speakers:
- Fifty Years of Independence: Fifty Years of Divisions
- Post-independence Developments in the Economy, Politics, Rights, and Culture
- Institutionalization of Divisions in Colonial India: A Chronology
- Divide and Rule in Modern Times
- A Modern Definition of Rights in the Era of Globalization
- Secularism and Communalism in the Context of Equal Rights
- Insurgence, Armed Struggle and the Striving for a New Political Power in India
- Divisions in the Left Movement Before and After Naxalbari
- UF Government and the Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy in India
- Democratic Renewal in India - The Role of Political Parties and Electoral System
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