International Workshop

"The Politics of Poverty and the Politics of the Poor in Modern South Asia"

In July 2011, the CeMIS research group "Modern Indian History" organised the international workshop "The Politics of Poverty and the Politics of the Poor in Modern South Asia" in Göttingen.

The workshop has explored two closely interlaced dimensions of colonial and post-colonial South Asian history: the ‘politics of poverty’ and ‘the politics of the poor.