Donnerstag
03
NOV

16.15 Uhr

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 Veranstaltung

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/history/kolloquium/kolloquium.php

Veranstalter

Südasien-Institut

Homepage Veranstalter

http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de

Kontakt

Abteilung Geschichte Südasiens

Kontakt URL

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/history/kolloquium/kolloquium.php

Anmeldung 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.

Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2022, 16.15 Uhr

Problematic Subalterns: How Partition Refugees Negotiated State Policies

Dr. Uditi Sen, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies

Donnerstag, 03. November 2022, 16.15 Uhr

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

Donnerstag, 10. November 2022, 16.15 Uhr

The Reunification of Hindusthan?: V.D. Savarkar on Hindu Pasts and Hindutva Futures

Prof. Dr. Vinayak Chaturvedi, University of California Irvine (USA)