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… is the author of the award-winning book Violence and Democracy: The Collapse of One-Party Dominant Rule in India , recently translated into … discussed the relationship between violence and the nation-state in contemporary India with a focus on vigilante …

… Overview … Lecture Overview Since its inception, American democracy has been shaped by American slavery. In the early … were linked by Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican party, which dominated American politics from 1800 to 1824. … political culture and its legacies for American democracy.  … Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, …

… The legislation is expected to be passed as the ruling party holds a majority of parliamentary seats.   The new …

… Sphere for people trying to understand the crisis of democracy in the U.S. and abroad. His reporting and analysis … at Fort Carson, Colorado. As a tactical air control party officer, he integrates with U.S. Army teams and directs … technology research. Please note that the speakers at this event will be sharing their personal views, which do not …

… Peace Symposium on Saturday 21 October at the Baitul Futuh Mosque in London under the guidance and tutelage of His … Administrative Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The event which had  Unity in Diversity  as its theme and was … Uganda; and Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, who delivered …

… 1947, demonstrating the ways in which broad principles of mosque governance emerged from regional and narrow contests … resources suggested the possibility of historicizing the mosque as an institution in South Asia. I subsequently … and describes emerging forms of social control in the mosque and provides an alternative to the prevailing casual …

… Environment Protection Act of 1997. In 2016,  the state shut  90 places of worship for excessive noise levels. …

… crisis, have led ordinary citizens to fear that Brazilian democracy has no future. The best way to respond to … Leftist movements led by Leonel Brizola’s Democratic Labor Party and Lula’s Worker’s Party advanced a vision of strong social democracy that …

… earlier. During my fieldwork, when I’m planning to visit a mosque or some Islamic structure, I am sometimes surprised to … dramatically with this current muscular, fascist Hindu state, which wants to erect these megamall sorts of temples. … If you look at the plans for the Ayodhya temple and mosque, you’ll see that the temple harkens back to a very …

… Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola (Penn State University Press). Didac Queralt received the 2023 … Gustav Ranis International Book Prize for best book for Democracy and Executive Power: Policymaking Accountability in … professor in the history of art, for “The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the …

… at the London School of Economics. Her work is rooted in a multi-local, embodied and sensory political anthropology and … race. She has (co)edited several volumes on the Everyday State and Modern Society in India (2000/2001, 2009), South … journeying with me. Perhaps, and on a sixth count, this event both reflected and marked the interest I had acquired …