ICCR lecture in Aarhus - 'Democracy and its Perils in South Asia'

[Niels Brimnes]

First ICCR Lecture on India

‘Democracy and its Perils in South Asia’

By Dr. Kaushik Roy, ICCR Visiting Professor to Aarhus University

6. november 2012, 2 pm. (14.15), building 1455, room 127.

Jens Chr. Skou's Vej 1, DK-8000 Aarhus C

Dr. Kaushik Roy is Reader in History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO). Dr. Roy has published extensively on warfare and military history in a broad social context both within South Asia and globally. His latest book Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia will be published by Cambridge University Press in December 2012. Other publications include War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849 (Routledge, 2011) and the edited volume War and Society in Colonial India (Oxford University Press, 2010).