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SUMMARY:Leadership\, Authority and Legitimation in South Asia - Speaker to
  be confirmed
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CONTACT:Speaker to be confirmed
DESCRIPTION:Recent political developments in South Asia left new types of 
 leaders and leadership in their wake. Nepal’s transition to democracy\; 
 mass political protests in Pakistan\; the landslide election of Narendra M
 odi as India’s new prime minister\; and the rapid influx of criminal pol
 iticians all raise pressing questions of authority\, leadership and legiti
 mation.\n\nThese questions have enjoyed a long and distinguished career in
  the study of the subcontinent\, but they have recently been made redundan
 t as social scientists turned to concerns of violence and ‘power’. Thi
 s workshop will include contributions on political\, moral\, and religious
  forms of leadership in the region and the global South Asian diaspora. Pa
 rticipants will consider what makes South Asia’s leaders acceptable or e
 ven intensely desirable in their followers’ eyes. What institutions\, id
 eas and practices give persons the right to lead\, represent or rule? What
  obligations and potencies does this right entail? And how do established 
 local conventions of legitimation shape—and come to be shaped by—new i
 nstitutions\, circumstances and norms? \n\nMore information at "www.crassh
 .cam.ac.uk/events/26168": http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26168
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
 9DP
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