Oct 26 2025 to Oct 26 2025 11 a.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

What happens when one-sixth of the world’s population attempts the world’s most complex development experiment? Co-authored by renowned political scientist Devesh Kapur and former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian, the book unpacks the country’s unique development model—an unprecedented blend of democracy, socialism, and liberalization—and explores how this singular trajectory continues to reshape global geopolitics and economics. An ambitious rethinking of how India, representing one-sixth of the world’s population, has taken a uniquely ‘precocious’ path to development. A Sixth of Humanity offers a comprehensive exploration of India’s extraordinary journey of nation-building and economic transformation since independence The discussion will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

Speakers

Devesh Kapur Co-author and Political Scientist

Devesh Kapur is the Starr Foundation Professor of South Asia Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Earlier he was the Frederick Danziger Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University and Madan Lal Sobti Professor for the Study of Contemporary India at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the political economy of development. His recent books include The Other One Percent: Indians in America, Internal Security in India: Violence, Order and the State, and The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific.

Arvind Subramanian Co-author and Former Chief Economic Adviser

Arvind Subramanian is Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, and former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. He has previously worked at the International Monetary Fund, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and taught at Ashoka, Brown, Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. His previous books include Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic Dominance, and Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Modi-Jaitley Economy.

Ramachandra Guha Author and Historian

Ramachandra Guha was born and raised in the Himalayan foothills. He studied in Delhi and Kolkata, and has lived for many years in Bengaluru. His books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods, a landmark history of the Republic, India after Gandhi, and an authoritative two-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, each of which was chosen by the New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year. His books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages. Ramachandra Guha has taught at Stanford and Oslo, held the Phillippe Roman Chair at the London School of Economics, and served as the Satish Dhawan Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He is currently Distinguished University Professor at Krea University. Guha’s awards include the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History, the Howard Milton Prize of the British Society for Sports History, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and the Fukuoka Prize for contributions to Asian studies. He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate in the humanities from Yale University.