Narayani Basu joins Hamsini Hariharan to talk about VP Menon and the process of consolidating 565 princely states into modern India.

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- Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division – Patrick French

• Twilight of the maharajas – Kenneth Samuel Fitze

• The Great Divide: Britain--India—Pakistan – HV Hodson

• The Princely India I Knew – Conrad Corfield

• The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 – Piers Brendon

• An Indian Summer: A Personal Experience of India – James Cameron

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Karin Vazquez joins Hamsini Hariharan on episode 43 of States of Anarchy to talk about the Brazil-India relationship beyond dictators. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.

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• Brazil- India Relations: Beyond the 70 Years edited by Karin Vazquez

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Vineet Hegde joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss the crisis in the dispute mechanisms of the World Trade Organization and what it means for international organizations. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.

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• World Trade Organisation
• Legal Problems of International Economic Relations: Cases, Materials and Text on the National and International Regulation of Transnational Economic
• The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction

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From January 2020, States of Anarchy hosted by Hamsini Hariharan will become a fortnightly podcast.

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Hamsini Hariharan looks at the seven major global affairs stories in 2019 and looks at the way forward for 2020. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.

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• India’s self-inflicted foreign policy challenges in 2020

• Looking back: 2019 was a demanding year for foreign policy mandarins

• From Balakot to Mahabalipuram via Houston: India's foreign policy report card for 2019

• Scoring a foreign policy self-goal

• Hope, Fear, Anger: Will this be the decade we finally come to terms with our reality?

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Conservation filmmaker Gunjan Menon joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss international efforts to conserve wildlife across the world. For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.

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With election season coming around, here's a look back at the first Indian elections. Ornit Shani joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss how the government prepared for the first Indian elections between 1951 and 1952.

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1. How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani

2. Reports by the Election Commission

3. Every Vote Counts: The Story of Indian Elections by Navin Chawla

4. An Undocumnted Wonder: The Making of the Great Indian Election by Sy Quraishi

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Aersh Danish joins host Hamsini Hariharan to discuss how social media affects national security and democracy.

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• The Man Who Built the Retweet

• General Data Protection Regulation

• Sri Krishna Committee Report

• Personal Data Protection Bill 2018

• ISIS: State of Terror by Jessica Stern and JM Berger

• The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency -- Charles Lister

• Apocalypse, later: a longitudinal study of the Islamic State brand -- Charlie Winter

• The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do -- Edward Tenner

• Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data– Victor Mayer-Schonberger and Thomas Ramge

• Ep. 02: How to Hack an Election

• Ep. 31: All Things Cyber

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Narayani Basu joins Hamsini Hariharan to talk about VP Menon and the process of consolidating 565 princely states into modern India.

Read More:

• Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division – Patrick French

• Twilight of the maharajas – Kenneth Samuel Fitze

• The Great Divide: Britain--India—Pakistan – HV Hodson

• The Princely India I Knew – Conrad Corfield

• The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 – Piers Brendon

• An Indian Summer: A Personal Experience of India – James Cameron

For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH on Twitter or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.

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This is a special roundup of all the news on the global stage from the last month. In November, the RCEP, BRICS, Katarpur, Impeachment and students protests dominated the headlines.

For questions or comments, reach out to the host @HamsiniH on Twitter or on Instagram @statesofanarchy.

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