Nehru. Les débats qui ont fait l'Inde

To mark the publication of the book Nehru. Les débats qui ont fait l'Inde, published by Éditions de la MSH, the FMSH is organising a round table at Maison Suger in the presence of the authors and international specialists to debate the question of Nehru's legacy in India and in the world today.

From his election as President of the Congress in 1929 until his death in 1964, Jawaharlal Nehru remained a dominant figure in Indian politics, a man who left an indelible mark on the history of South Asia. Both during and after his lifetime, Nehru embodied many things for many people.

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4pm | Opening Remarks with Jean-Luc Racine

4:20pm | India's Internal policy with Anne Viguier

4:40pm | Opening Remarks with Vijay Singh

5pm | Discussion about the book with Adeel Hussain, Tripurdaman Singh and Nicolas Blarel

6pm | Closing remarks with Mikhaïl Xifaras and Pavlos Eliftheriades

Discussions will take place in both English and French.

Adeel Hussain is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi and a Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He is the author of Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North India and Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan. 

Tripurdaman Singh is an Ambizione Fellow at the L’Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, Geneva. He has been a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of London, and has held visiting fellowships at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden and Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris. His books include Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics and Sixteen Stormy Days.

Jean-Luc Racine (preface writer), a PhD from Sorbonne University, is Emeritus CNRS Senior Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences -EHESS- Paris), and Senior Fellow at Asia Centre, a Paris based think tank. He speaks regularly in institutions dedicated to international affairs or security studies, and appears in French and English speaking medias on South Asian affairs. He has written or edited more than a dozen of books on India and on South Asia. His last edited books in French have been focussed on Cachemire. Au péril de la guerre (Autrement, 2002), L’Inde et l’Asie (CNRS Éditions, 2009).