With a particular focus on India which has become a powerful middle-income country and international development actors are now less significant in its development, there is a need to visibilise the ways in which the country has taken a more isolationist turn, posing new challenges for development studies. Through this event, we are hoping to illuminate the Indian context as a laboratory for these ascendant trends and counter-resistance, to offer wider lessons for development research, policy and practice.
These conversations are organised as part of the Challenging Authoritarian Developmentalism from Below: Perspectives from India initiative of the Institute of Development Studies, UK.
Panel 1: Trends of Authoritarian Developmentalism (14:00 to 15:30)
Speakers:
- Dr. Adil Hossain, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India;
- Professor Nikita Sud, University of Oxford, UK;
- Professor Mona Mehta, Ahmedabad University, India;
- Mr. Salil Tripathi, New York-based writer.
Moderator: Professor Lyla Mehta, IDS.
Panel 2: Narratives of Resistance (16:00 to 17:30)
Speakers:
- Dr. Subir Sinha, SOAS, UK;
- Professor Goldie Osuri, University of Warwick, UK
- Ms. Kalpana Sharma, Mumbai-based journalist and author
- Mr. Sambhaji Bhagat, anti-caste activist and poet
Moderator: Samreen Mushtaq, IDS.
Discussion and Concluding remarks (17:30 to 18:00).
