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SUMMARY:Abhivyakti: A Book Discussion Forum
DESCRIPTION:Dear all\, \nWe are delighted to present the sixteenth book discussion in the Ashoka History Book Discussion Series\, a platform to showcase the latest research of the History faculty and host intellectual conversations around their most recent books\, in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Studies and the HDFC Library\, through Abhivyakti\, a book discussion forum. The event will focus on India's Forests: Revisiting Nature and History\, co-edited by Arupjyoti Saikia and Mahesh Rangarajan (Penguin Random House\, 2026). Professors Mahesh Rangarajan and Arupjyoti Saikia will be in conversation with Professors Ghazala Shahabuddin and Sumana Roy. \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/abhivyakti-a-book-discussion-forum/
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SUMMARY:Political Science Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:An Emergency to Protect Pluralism? Rethinking 1975-77. \nAbstract: When Carl Schmitt argued that emergency situations give rise to an exercise of sovereign power\, he further concluded that this results in the elimination of internal pluralism in states. After the declaration of the Emergency\, Indira Gandhi repeatedly emphasized that the Emergency would protect Indian democracy from falling prey to anti-pluralist forces\, accusing chiefly the Hindu Right and the extreme left of posing a threat to Indian pluralism. And the sovereign “political” in 1975 saw these formations as challenges to its power and marked them as enemies. Indira Gandhi affirmed that India will not be a one-party state and that the rule of law will not be abandoned. She claimed that change of the Constitution’s Preamble to include “socialism” and “secularism” was done to protect diverse interests and marginalized groups. This poses considerable conceptual challenges to Schmittian theory where the question of internal pluralism or diversity are seen as obstacles to the realization of sovereignty. Can a state exercise sovereignty in times of crisis while at the same time respecting pluralism in society? \nBio: Karthick Ram Manoharan is faculty at the National Law School of India University and most recently Smuts Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is currently working on a monograph on the Indian Emergency for Cambridge University Press. He is the author of Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism (2022) and Frantz Fanon: Identity and Resistance (2019) and the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Periyar (2025) and Rethinking Social Justice (2020). \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/political-science-colloquium/
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SUMMARY:Economics Department Online Weekly Seminar | Prasanna Tantri | 28th October 2026 | 1:40 PM
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We study what secured and unsecured defaults reveal about borrower quality. An Indian policy experiment extended standardized unsecured loans to nearly all identified street vendors\, including past defaulters. Secured-loan defaulters subsequently outperform unsecured-loan defaulters\, while past repayers from both groups perform similarly. Neither credit scores nor original loan terms capture this distinction. Savings-account balances decline around default for both groups but recover only among secured defaulters\, consistent with temporary liquidity shocks playing a larger role in their defaults. These findings suggest that secured borrowers are of higher underlying quality\, consistent with signaling theories of collateral.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/economics-department-online-weekly-seminar-prasanna-tantri-28th-october-2026-140-pm/
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