"Politics & Society in Uttar Pradesh" talk by Prof. A.K. Verma at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 9th July 2012

Time : 3:00 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Public Lecture on ‘Politics and Society in Uttar Pradesh’ by Prof. A.K. Verma, Department of Political Science, Christ Church College, Kanpur.

Abstract : Both politics and society are showing signs of metamorphosis in Uttar Pradesh. While there is a transition from caste based ‘exclusionary’ politics to ‘inclusive’ politics in UP, the society there is also struggling to break the shackles of castes, and move towards ‘classes’. In both these simultaneous and interconnected transitions, social engineering is playing an important role. We seek to look at and analyse these transitions through the lens of electoral politics. 

Speaker : Dr. A. K. Verma teaches Politics at Christ Church College, Kanpur. His research interest focuses on the politics of Uttar Pradesh. He has explained the rise of exclusionary politics and transition to inclusive politics in Uttar Pradesh through ‘Social Osmosis’ and ‘Reverse Social Osmosis’. He had been invited by several foreign universities including Harvard, UCL (Berkeley), ISAS, Singapore and Australian National University. He helped NCERT in preparation of New Generation of Text Books for Political Science mainly ‘Indian Constitution at Work’. Dr. Verma is associated with Lokniti, CSDS, Delhi as State Coordinator (UP). He also writes for Indian media and appears on TV channels.

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