Post-Partition Statehood in South Asia

Fri. February 25th, 2022
Zoom Webinar

Carnegie India hosted Atul Mishra to discuss his book The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan which examines the ideas and practices of sovereignty in India and Pakistan since 1947. The discussion was moderated by Srinath Raghavan.

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event speakers

Atul Mishra

Atul Mishra is an associate professor at the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University, India. His research examines how power and hierarchy, embodied in western colonialism, have shaped modern South Asian international relations, thus contesting the anarchy-oriented theorizing of world politics. He has more ​recently begun working on the emergence of the subcontinent’s modern inter-state system.