Adeel Hussain and Tripurdaman Singh on The Debates That Defined India
Ideas of India · Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Show Notes
In this episode, Shruti speaks with Adeel Hussain and Tripurdaman Singh about their book, "Nehru: The Debates That Defined India." They discuss homogeneity in parliamentary democracies, tensions between liberalism and cultural traditions, the branches of the Indian and Pakistani governments and much more. Hussain is an assistant professor at Leiden University and a senior research affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg. His research focuses on jurisprudence, comparative constitutional law, international law and the global history of legal and political thought, with a regional emphasis on South Asia and Europe. Singh is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. His work explores the broad themes of sovereignty, state formation, decolonization and constitution making.
Recorded May 13th, 2022
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