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Kitaab: Books in Discussion "The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia" by Srinath Raghavan Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
July 14, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Kitaab: Books in Discussion
“The Most Dangerous Place:
A History of the United States in South Asia”
by Srinath Raghavan
Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Saturday | 14 July 2018 | 11.00 am – 12.30 pm
Organised by The International Centre Goa
Discussants:
Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, AvC, VSM
Former Chief of Naval Staff
&
Professor Varun Sahni
Vice Chancellor, Goa University
Chair:
Dr Pushkar, Director, ICG
Entry free & open to general public
Srinath Raghavan (MA, PhD King’s College London) is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi) and a recipient of the prestigious Infosys Prize (Social Sciences) in 2015. He is the author of the highly-praised War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of the Nehru Years (2010) and 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh (2013). Prior to his academic career, he spent six years as an infantry officer in the Indian Army.
The definitive history of US involvement in South Asia, The Most Dangerous Place (2018) provides a gripping account of America’s political and strategic, economic and cultural presence in the region.
