India
Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie announced today (Sept. 2) that IU will donate a 12,000-volume research library of political science books, journals and reference materials used for decades by faculty and students to India's O.P. Jindal Global University. McRobbie also awarded the Thomas Hart Benton Medallion, the highest honor an IU president has the sole authority to bestow, to esteemed Indian economist, best-selling author and IU alumnus Narendra Jadhav.
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In a new twist on the "all politics is local" theory, first-of-its-kind empirical research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business demonstrates how lawmakers knowingly and willingly obstruct desperately needed national progress to please local constituents -- and often, keep themselves in office.
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The IU Kelley School of Business' GLOBASE initiative, a social entrepreneurship consulting program that also combines international experience with leadership development, has expanded to India.
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Pallabi Chakravorty, a visual anthropologist and founder and artistic director of the contemporary Indian dance ensemble Courtyard Dancers, will give a performance of classical Kathak dance on Saturday (Oct. 23) at Indiana University Bloomington.
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Ambassador Arun K. Singh, deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of India to the United States in Washington, D.C., will speak at Indiana University Bloomington on Friday, Oct. 23.
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Under a joint research and book project undertaken by the IU Center on American and Global Security and the India Studies Program, two professors at IU Bloomington have addressed a gap in literature on counterinsurgency. Professors Sumit Ganguly and David P. Fidler have addressed this gap by co-editing and contributing chapters to a new book, India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned.
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