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Dr. Shreeyash Palshikar
January 9, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
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Dangerous Neighborhood: A Historical Background of the India-Pakistan Tensions
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Dr. Shreeyash Palshikar is an Assistant Professor of History at Albright College. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago, where he received a Fulbright fellowship to research in India. He also holds a B.A. from Amherst College, and did a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University. Before coming to Albright two years ago, he served in the intelligence community as a South Asia political analyst.
Dr. Palshikar works on language politics and democracy in South Asia, with a focus on modern India. He is currently completing a manuscript analyzing how formation of linguistic states relates to the development of India’s democracy with a special focus on the area around Bombay/Mumbai city. He has previously analyzed how vernacular propaganda helped create emotional appeal for an opposition political coalition, and revealed how a contemporary political party appropriated rhetoric of a 1950s regional-linguistic movement. He teaches courses on World History, South and East Asian History and the global history of magic