FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
Army and Nation: How India’s Founders Made its Army Safe for Democracy
Speaker: Prof. Steven I. Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies, Chair, Department of Political Science, Yale University and author of the forthcoming book Army and Nation – The Military and Indian Democracy Since Independence (Permanent Black, 2015)
Chair: Dr. Srinath Raghavan
At Indian Independence in 1947, the country’s founders worried that the army India inherited – conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few “martial” groups posed a threat to democracy. Steven Wilkinson draws on uniquely comprehensive data to explore how and why India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed
Event starts on Thursday, 19 March 2015 at 05:30 hrs
Type
Talks
Dates
19 Mar 2015, 05:30 AM
Venue
FRONTIERS OF HISTORY