Raminder Kaur Kahlon, University of Sussex,“Bertrand Russell in Bollyworld”: Post-Nehruvian Narratives about Peace and Japan in 1960s India

Raminder Kaur is Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies in the Department of Anthropology, School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Atomic Bombay: Living with the Radiance of a Thousand Suns (2012) and Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism (2003/5). She is also co-author of Diaspora and Hybridity (with Virinder Kalra and John Hutnyk, 2005), and co-editor of Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction (with William Mazzarella, 2009), Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens (with Ajay Sinha, 2005) and Travel Worlds: Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics (with John Hutnyk, 1999).