Back to Events of Week No. 40: Monday 03rd October 2022 to Sunday 09th October 2022
Thursday | 04:15 PM | A Future that Never Came: Ambedkar in the Eve of Partition Online event Dr. Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza, University of Manchester (United Kingdom), School of Arts, Languages and Cultures This paper analyses B.R. Ambedkar’s political writings and activism in the years prior to Partition. I contextualise Ambedkar’s changing views on Pakistan through his Thoughts on Pakistan (1941), Pakistan or the Partition of India (1945, 1946); and Communal Deadlock and a Way to Solve It (1945). Ambedkar’s writings in this period were concerned with what he perceived as an attack on the political concept of the ‘minority’ in India. Since Dalits throughout India were a heterogeneous cluster of communities without a common denominator to bind them together (such as language, profession or territory) other than their social and political oppression, their recognition as a political category gave structure to the body of their politics. Yet, at this time the future of the concept of the political minority was under threat from different camps including the Hindu right, the Muslim League and Congress. 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) |