Uppsala seminar by Steven Wilkinson on the Partition of India

On Thursday 23 February 2012, 13.15 – 15.00, the Forum for South Asian Studies at Uppsala University organises a public seminar on ”Veterans, Skills and Ethnic Conflict: Evidence from the Partition of India” with Professor Steven I. Wilkinson from Yale University, USA. The seminar is organised in collaboration with the Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Prof. Wilkinson, who is a Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Yale University will speak about the effects of war on political and social change, demonstrating how the organizational and killing skills acquired by Indian soldiers in World War 2 help explain the occurrence of ethnic cleansing in India in 1947-49. Wilkinson will show that in districts that supplied large numbers of frontline soldiers, the levels of cleansing were much greater than in those districts that provided very few combat soldiers. This study uses a unique district-level dataset on violence and socio-economic factors in India from 1941–1951.
Venue: Sal 2, Gamla torget 3
All are welcome!