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Recent IiT Features

  • Challenging the Idea of India: Accommodating the Nagas

    For over sixty years, in few areas, has the idea of India been more strongly challenged as in the tiny state of Nagaland, located well east of Kolkata (Calcutta). It was here that the first shots for an independent breakaway nation were fired within a decade of India securing independence from Britain in 1947.

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  • Public Interest Litigation in India: Time for an Audit

    Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which aims to use the courts to advance social justice, began in India about thirty years ago when procedures for expanding access to justice were developed. The judiciary, aiming to recapture popular support after its complicity in Indira Gandhi’s declaration of Emergency rule, encouraged litigation concerning the interests of the poor and marginalized.

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  • India’s MMRCA Deal: Muddled Rationale, Costly Adventure?

    Although nowhere near as high profile or politically dramatic as the 2008 Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, India’s proposed $10 billion procurement of 126 medium multirole combat aircraft (MRCA) may have a much more profound impact on India’s strategic relations, particularly if a U.S. Platform – either Lockheed’s F-16 E/F or Boeing’s F/A-18 E/F – is selected as the winning bid.

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Faculty Advisory Committee

Aditi Bagchi
Assistant Professor of Law
Penn Law

Jere Behrman
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics
Director of the Population Studies Center
School of Arts and Sciences

Jamal J. Elias
Class of 1965 Term Professor of Religious Studies
Department of Religious Studies
School of Arts and Sciences

Francine R. Frankel
Founding Director of Center for the Advanced Study of India (1992-2006)
Professor of Political Science
School of Arts and Sciences

Kathleen D. Hall
Director of the South Asia Center
Associate Professor of Education, Culture and Society
Graduate School of Education

Femida Handy
Professor
Academic Advisor for the Masters in Nonprofit / NGO Leadership Program
School of Social Policy and Practice

Vijay Kumar
UPS Foundation Professor
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Michael W. Meister
W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asia Studies
Department of History of Art
And Chair of the Department of South Asia Studies
School of Arts and Sciences

Jack H. Nagel
Steven F. Goldstein Endowed Term Professor of Political Science
Associate Dean for Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences

Monroe E. Price
Director of Center for Global Communication Studies
Adjunct Professor of Communication
Annenberg School for Communication

Brian L. Strom, M.D.

George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health
and Preventive Medicine in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Penn Medicine

Michael Useem
The William and Jacalyn Egan Professor; Professor of Management
Director, Center for Leadership and Change Management
The Wharton School

Daniel A. Wagner
Director of the National Center on Adult Literacy/International Literacy Institute (ILI)
Professor of Education
Graduate School of Education