TALK: Carl LANDAUER, "Twentieth-Century India Reads its Ancient Law of Nations Past" (Berkeley: Institute for South Asia Studies/Center on Contemporary India, 24 SEP 2024) [LIVE VIA FACEBOOK]

 

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Abstract:

The talk will cover two waves of Indian readings—one in the 1920s and a second after Independence—of India’s ancient inter-polity law, with their focus on Kautilya’s “Arthashastra,” the “Code of Manu,” and the “Shanti Parva” of the “Mahabharata,” and how those readings framed versions of Indian nationalism.

On the speaker:

Carl Landauer is a visiting scholar at the Institute for South Asia Studies. He taught history at Yale, Stanford, and McGill and international legal theory at UC Berkeley Law School. He publishes broadly on the history of international legal thought, with emphasis on the Global South and South Asia.

The event will be livestreamed on Facebook, 5-6:30 PM California Time. 

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