When poverty goes down, a natural question is whether the poorest are reducing poverty the fastest. In current terms, are the poorest groups catching up, or being left behind. But at present there is no agreed metric for measuring the normative concept of 'leaving no one behind.' Between 2005/6 and 2019/21, India reduced the global multidimensional poverty index strongly, with 415 million leaving poverty in that time period and with the fastest absolute MPI reduction occurring in the poorer states and social groups.

This session will explore the evolving dynamics of European defence cooperation and integration, emphasizing the critical role of EU institutions and the challenges posed by national interests. We will examine how recent initiatives like the European Defence Fund and the Defence Industrial Strategy aim to transform defence collaboration. Using case studies like a European Air Shield and a Cyber Defence Common Project, we will discuss the challenges posed by national interests.

“Security” is a word that we all use every day in a variety of contexts – so much so that it rarely occurs to us to reflect on what we think it means (or on what it ought to mean). The academic study of International Relations is something of an exception: scholars from a variety of schools of thought embrace unconventional, idiosyncratic, and sometimes downright weird definitions.

TORCH invites Professor Fouzia Farooq, Associate Professor of Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad and 2024-25 All Souls/ Global Visiting Professor for a conversation on the diverse expressions of female agency within the Delhi Sultanate (1192–1526).

TORCH welcomes Professor Fouzia Farooq, Professor Sarah Ansari, Professor Nandini Chatterjee, and Dr Moin Nizami for a panel discussion exploring the reinterpretations of medieval histories of India. The discussion will examine how these narratives have evolved and been reshaped over time and the implications these shifts have for our understanding of identity, power, and collective memory.

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