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Looking Back, Informing the Future: A Multidisciplinary Research Project on the 1947 Partition of British India

Presented by the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University and Asia Society

2017 marks the 70th anniversary of the Partition of British India, as well as the launch of Harvard’s South Asia Institute’s major research on Partition. Panelists Prashant Bharadwaj, (Associate Professor, Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego); Tarun Khanna (Director, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School), Karim R. Lakhani (Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School) and Rahul Mehrotra (Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University) discuss the complexities of large-scale human migration and resettlements. Such lessons can inform current cross-border displacement and the corresponding growth of urban settlements and cities. Moderated by Jennifer Leaning(François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights; Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University).

Viewpoints is an annual series featuring prominent, visionary figures in the creative arts and is made possible by the generous support of Aashish and Dinyar S. Devitre.











When: Thu., Nov. 30, 2017 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Asia Society and Museum
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212-288-6400
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Presented by the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University and Asia Society

2017 marks the 70th anniversary of the Partition of British India, as well as the launch of Harvard’s South Asia Institute’s major research on Partition. Panelists Prashant Bharadwaj, (Associate Professor, Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego); Tarun Khanna (Director, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School), Karim R. Lakhani (Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School) and Rahul Mehrotra (Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University) discuss the complexities of large-scale human migration and resettlements. Such lessons can inform current cross-border displacement and the corresponding growth of urban settlements and cities. Moderated by Jennifer Leaning(François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights; Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University).

Viewpoints is an annual series featuring prominent, visionary figures in the creative arts and is made possible by the generous support of Aashish and Dinyar S. Devitre.

Buy tickets/get more info now