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5:00 pm
Venue
SOAS, University of London
Room
Khalili Lecture Theatre
Event type
Seminar

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The talk will cover two waves of Indian readings—one in the 1920s and a second after Independence—of India’s ancient inter-polity law, with their focus on Kautilya’s 'Arthashastra', the 'Code of Manu', and the 'Shanti Parva' of the 'Mahabharata', and how those readings framed versions of Indian nationalism.

This event is co-sponsored by the Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law with South Asia Institute.

Photo credit: Deepak Vishwakarma via unsplash

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Carl Landauer is a visiting scholar at the Institute for South Asia Studies. He taught history at Yale, Stanford, and McGill and international legal theory at UC Berkeley Law School. 

He publishes broadly on the history of international legal thought, with emphasis on the Global South and South Asia.

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