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Regions

The controversial “survey” of a mosque in the small north Indian town of Sambhal, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, sparked violent protests last month, leaving at least five people dead. The incident reignited the age-old debate over the need to “correct mistakes” committed centuries ago and their impact on social harmony and peace in contemporary India.

PublicationsAsia

This volume assembles renowned scholars to address, for the first time, the relationship between minorities and populism in South Asia and Europe from a critical perspective.

Videos Asia

How can the relationship between the State and civil society be undestood in a Chinese perspective? Runya Qiaoan gives her assessment in this video-interview shot on the margins of Reset DOC’s 2022 Venice Seminars, “Between State and Civil Society: Who Protects Individual Liberties and Human Dignity?”

ConveningAsia

March

2024

Online (Zoom)

Join us on Thursday March 7th at 8 am EST / 2pm CET / 6:30pm IST to dissect the implications of Modi’s triumphalism, the erosion of India’s federal system, and how will this impact India’s international aspirations after India’s upcoming elections.

March

2022

Online (Zoom & Facebook Live)

Join us online for a momentous virtial roundtable on Friday 11 March at 12pm EST / 6pm CET – With José Casanova, Craig Calhoun, Sean Golden, Andrea Graziosi, Shada Islam, Marlene Laruelle, Mikhail Minakov

January

2021

Online (Zoom)

Robert W. Hefner will join Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova to discuss the background to and aftermath of his major work Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia (2000) and the promises and limitations for democratization in Muslim-majority countries two decades later.