This week Dr. Iyer and three students who participated in the J-term course “Journey Through Gandhi’s Land” presented their research from the trip at a conference on Religion and Politics at The Henry Center at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. The title of their panel was “Religion, Riots and Rules: Power Politics in Gujarat.” The papers presented and their authors are as follows:
The Politics of Justice in Gujarat by Pushpa Iyer
The Politics of Ideology in Gujarat by Kirill Prudnikov
The Politics of Religious Conversions in Gujarat by Raymond Aycock
The Politics of Natural Disaster Relief in Gujarat by Omar Salem