Center for the Advanced Study of India at Penn to Celebrate 20th Anniversary With Symposium

PHILADELPHIA -– The Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania will hold a 20th Anniversary Symposium on “India: Two Decades of Transformation.”

The Sept. 27 event will be in the Michael A. Fitts Auditorium of the Penn Law School’s Golkin Hall from 2 to 6:45 p.m.

CASI was founded in 1992, by Francine Frankel, a political science professor at Penn, one year after India launched its historic economic reforms. Today, it is recognized as a national resource, addressing the urgent need for objective knowledge of India’s rapidly changing society, politics and economy and the forces and processes behind them.

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