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Thursday | 04:15 PM | Problematic Subalterns: How Partition Refugees Negotiated State Policies Online event Dr. Uditi Sen, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies This talk will draw upon insights generated from a close analysis of oral histories, pamphlets and memoirs produced by partition refugees displaced from Eastern Pakistan and settled across diverse locations in India, including Dandakaranya, the Andaman Islands and West Bengal. It will illuminate the specific strategies used by partition refugees in negotiating an apathetic state and an often-unwelcoming host society. It will present an intersectional analysis that foregrounds how class, caste and gender can fragment a supposedly common experience of displacement and resettlement. In doing so, it interrogates the axiomatic subalternity of the figure of the refugee. It will also illustrate the need for critical and contextual readings of refugee memory, at a time when multiple projects of collection of refugee memories and production of community histories has begun to find validation as a more ‘authentic’ record of partition, as it was lived and experienced by ordinary people. Homepage Event https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/history/kolloquium/kolloquium.php Organizer Südasien-Institut Homepage Organizer http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de Contact Abteilung Geschichte Südasiens Contact URL https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/history/kolloquium/kolloquium.php Registration URL https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrc-mhrD8oGtKjND_L52YSrZlisL_tnL9c Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Colloquium Series: New Interventions in the History of Partition ': As 2022 marks 75 years after partition we tune into some recent interventions into Partition Studies to assess the state of the field. Please join us online to hear these speakers share with us thoughts about their work on partition, from a range of perspectives. Thursday 20th October 2022, 04:15 PM Problematic Subalterns: How Partition Refugees Negotiated State Policies Dr. Uditi Sen, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies Thursday 03rd November 2022, 04:15 PM A Future that Never Came: Ambedkar in the Eve of Partition Dr. Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza, University of Manchester (United Kingdom), School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Thursday 10th November 2022, 04:15 PM The Reunification of Hindusthan?: V.D. Savarkar on Hindu Pasts and Hindutva Futures Prof. Dr. Vinayak Chaturvedi, University of California Irvine (USA) |