Indian Perspective on U.S. Presidential Election to be Offered During Lecture at Rutgers—Camden

For Immediate Release

CAMDEN -- Viewpoints on the U.S. presidential election as seen from India will be offered by an internationally regarded Indian scholar during a free lecture at Rutgers—Camden during 4:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14.

Dr. B. Ramesh Babu, executive director of the Centre for Governance and Development and the Centre for Global Studies in Hyderabad, India, will discuss “American Presidential Politics as Seen from an Indian Perspective.”  The former Sir Pherozeshah Mehta Professor of Politics at the University of Bombay, Babu is a leading scholar on U.S.-Indian relations. He has covered American presidential elections in India for close to 50 years.

Sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities and the Departments of Political Science and History at Rutgers—Camden, the lecture will be held in the faculty lounge on third floor of Armitage Hall, located on Fifth Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers—Camden Campus.

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