Events
- Date:
- Friday, 15 Sep 2017
- Time:
- 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
- Location:
- Third Floor, International Center
- Department:
- Asian Studies Center
This is a two day event.
Day 2: The Persistance Legacy: Symposium Sessions
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The 1947 partition of British India led to an estimated million deaths and ten million displaced persons, created the modern states of Pakistan and India (and arguably Bangladesh at a later date), and left a persistent legacy that shapes internal, regional and international politics to this day.
Ramachandra Guha is a historian who has taught at Berkeley, Yale, Stanford, and the London School of Economics. He is the author or editor of more than 15 books on topics ranging from cricket to environmental politics to Indian political leadership and social history, including the trailblazing Unquiet Woods and award winning Corner of a Foreign Field and India after Gandhi.
Vazira Zamindar is a professor of South Asian history at Brown University where she co-directs the South Asian Studies Program. She is the author of The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories as well as articles on the modern history of South Asia.