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SUMMARY:India as a ‘civilisational state’ - Emma Mawdsley (University 
 of Cambrdige)\, Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)\, Sebastia
 n Haug (University of Cambrdige)\, Jayati Sristava\, Esra Elif Nartok\, Ud
 ayan Das\, Shibashis Chatterjee
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DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, Indian foreign policy has seen a sharp surge
  in projections of the 'civilisational'. Under the Modi administration\, c
 ivilisational tropes are used to promote certain identities and ideologies
  to domestic audiences\, and to leverage soft power and geopolitical curre
 ncy internationally – such as the International Day of Yoga (IDY) at the
  United Nations General Assembly. While civilisational tropes and discours
 es are not novel – Jawaharlal Nehru\, famously deployed in the years lea
 ding up to and following India's independence – the signifiers associate
 d with 'civilisation' or 'civilisational state' are today markedly differe
 nt from those rehearsed by the Nehruvian regime\; instead drawing on longe
 r and more recent formulations of the Hindu Right. What to many internatio
 nal audiences may appear benign or arcane are well understood within India
  as violent and exclusionary claims on who and what is India/Indian. What 
 explains the resurgence of the civilisational as a vehicle to talk about I
 ndia in the current political moment? This panel will take this question a
 s its analytical starting point to investigate how exactly the civilisatio
 nal manifests in and through Indian foreign policy practice and discourse 
 (including through the appropriation of decoloniality and postcolonial tro
 pes)\, and how it intersects with domestic political agendas and ideologie
 s. Cross-cutting questions include:\n•	How do civilisational state disco
 urses animate India's foreign policy choices\, behaviour\, agendas\, and a
 ctions\, and how have these changed over time?\n•	What kinds of resource
 s\, ideologies and intellectual traditions are being marshalled\, and by w
 hom? \n•	What are the articulations between foreign policy and the domes
 tic politics of India’s civilisational state claims?\n•	How do articul
 ations and claims about India's identity as a civilisational state compare
  and contrast with those made by other powers\, such as China and Turkey?\
 n\nSpeakers:\nEmma Mawdsley (University of Cambrdige)\, Kate Sullivan de E
 strada (University of Oxford)\, Sebastian Haug (University of Cambrdige)\,
  Jayati Sristava\, Esra Elif Nartok\, Udayan Das\, Shibashis Chatterjee
LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/85666dcb-585d-4114-af59-83e47c1befeb/
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 iversity of Cambrdige)\, Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)\,
  Sebastian Haug (University of Cambrdige)\, Jayati Sristava\, Esra Elif Na
 rtok\, Udayan Das\, Shibashis Chatterjee
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