Please join us for a seminar on South Asian politics with Aditya Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Political Economy of Agriculture and Rural Societies (PEARS) lab at the University of California, Merced, and Amreeta Das, PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of California.

About the seminar: What explains the meteoric rise of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India in the last four decades, from niche regional force to dominant national party? This paper connects satellite imagery-based estimates of urban extent over time to electoral returns at the parliamentary constituency level to provide evidence that long-term urbanization has driven the rise of the BJP. 

This seminar is co-hosted by the Saxena Center at Brown University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and the Mittal Institute at Harvard University.