The Politics of South Asia specialist group of the Political Studies Association and the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies of the University of Nottingham will be running an event assessing the campaign, results and outcome of the biggest election the world has ever seen – the Indian election of 2014 – on the 3rd July. This follows on from the successful #Indiavotes2014 blog, run from the Ballots and Bullets Blog.

The election saw the Hindu Nationalist BJP achieve an overall majority. This swept away many presumptions about the inability of national parties to come to power on their own, in the absence of coalition party support.

Thanks to a grant from the Political Studies Association, our keynote speaker will be E Sridharan, director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI) in New Delhi. He will speak on the topic of Election 2014: A Fundamental Change of Party System?

Other confirmed speakers include Katharine Adeney (Nottingham), James Chriyankandath (ICS), Rekha Diwakar (Sussex), Kunal Sen (Manchester), Gurharpal Singh (SOAS), Carole Spary (York), Nikita Sud (Oxford), Louise Tillin (Kings) and Andrew Wyatt (Bristol). View the final programme here (pdf).

Registration will commence at 9.30, with the first panel at 10.00. The day will finish at 17.15 (with informal discussions to continue in the Staff Club).

Spaces are limited so please email Ailsa.Mitchell@nottingham.ac.uk to confirm your attendance by 25th June (also for catering purposes).

Thanks also to the Political Studies Association; we have a number of bursaries for postgraduate students to attend this event. If you wish to apply for one of these please email the convenor of the PSA Politics of South Asia Specialist Group. These applications will be assessed in the order in which they are received. A maximum of £75 will be reimbursed on production of valid travel receipts.