2025-03-05
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Good evening everyone and welcome to this evening's lecture.
My name's Catherine Allerton and I'm head of the Department of Anthropology here at the LSE.
Tonight is a very special occasion.
It's an inaugural lecture marking our colleague Mukhalika Banerjee's promotion to Professor of Anthropology at the school.
These inaugural lectures are a time to celebrate the successes of our community.
Professor Banerjee is an anthropologist of South Asia and her published work concerns a broad range of issues in the region from a non-violent social movement in Pakistan to an account of the saree as a government that has survived widespread social change to work on the everyday lives of Muslims in India.
However, since her appointment as a reader in our department in 2009,
Professor Banerjee has become best known as an anthropologist of democracy,
pioneering an original intellectual approach to the everyday life of democracy in India and to the study of elections and political engagement more broadly.
This research programme has led to two major books, Why India Votes and her 2021 monograph Cultivating Democracy.
Professor Banerjee is also the founding series editor of Rutledge's Exploring the Political in South Asia and she's also just started a podcast called The India Briefing that aims to be the single credible source for understanding India.
I also have some hot off the press news and I'm delighted to announce
that Professor Banerjee has just heard she's been awarded a highly competitive British Academy Leaver Hume Senior Research Fellowship for New Research on Taxation.
So we have much to celebrate and without further delay let me hand over to Professor Banerjee for her lecture,