Dr. Chandra Mallampalli, Senior Research Fellow at the Clough Center, will speak about the state of democracy in India, focusing on elections. This event is a part of the 2025 Spring Seminars that the Clough Center organizes to discuss the recent elections across the world. Dr. Mallampalli’s seminar will be held on April 15, 2025, from 12:00 to 1:15 PM at 10 Stone Avenue.

Drawing on his expertise as a historian, Dr. Mallampalli will explore the current state of democratic politics in India and provide insights into the political forces shaping the country’s political landscape. Attendance is by invitation only. 
Chandra Mallampalli is interested in religious pluralism, nationalism, and the secular state. At the Clough Center, his research examines challenges facing India’s multi-religious democracy, especially in light of the surging Hindu nationalism and violence against religious minorities. His scholarship and teaching span the fields of modern India, British Empire, world history, and global Christianity. His recent book with Oxford University Press (New York), South Asia’s Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim, describes how the lives of Roman Catholics, Syrian Christians, and Protestants have been shaped by centuries of interactions with Hindus and Muslims of the Indian subcontinent. Mallampalli’s new project, “The Virtues of Mixture: Religion, Labor Migrants, and Cosmopolitanism in the Indian Ocean,” explores the role of religious institutions in the lives of South Indian migrants to the Persian Gulf and Southeast Asia since the late 19th century, and asks whether religion either facilitated cultural mixture and engagement or contributed to sharper boundaries and accommodations to ethnic nationalism.

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