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U.S.-India Relations expert and Berea College alumnus Dr. Sumit Ganguly to speak at Berea Thursday, March 17

 
 For Immediate Release 3/8/05
 
   
Dr. Sumit Ganguly, South Asia scholar and director of the Indian Studies Program at Indiana University, will speak on “India-U.S. Relations” at Berea College March 17, at 3 p.m. in Phelps Stokes Chapel. The talk by the 1977 Berea graduate will focus on historical relations between India and the United States and its significance for the contemporary world.

The program is the 2004-05 Begley VanCleve Lecture and is co-sponsored by the College’s International Center. Admission is free and open to the public.

Ganguly holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and is a professor of political science at Indiana, in addition to directing the Indian Studies Program there. He is the author, editor or co-editor of some ten books on South Asia.

Ganguly also is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London. He has held fellowships at Columbia University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.

In addition to a bachelor’s degree from Berea, Ganguly holds a masters Miami University and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

   
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