April 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm ET
Choreographies of Violence, Silence, and Complicity
Discussant Elizabeth Wood |
Chetana Sabnis, Investigating the Political Consciousness of the Police: A Case Study of Colonial British Police Officials between the years 1857 – 1947 |
Mohamad Junaid, Interpreting the “silence”: Kashmir in the post-2019 era | |
Niloufer Siddiqui, Politics Parties, Patrons, and Power-Brokers: the Political Logic of Sectarian Violence in Punjab, Pakistan |
1:00pm-3:00pm ET
Founding Constitutional Orders
Discussant Karuna Mantena |
Ali Usman Qasmi, Founding Moments of Pakistan’s Constitutional Democracy: An Alternative History |
Rohit De & Ornit Shani, From Founding to Assembly: Towards a New History of India’s Constitution Making | |
Shaunna Rodrigues, Beyond Secular Nationalism: Islamic and Anti-Caste Justifications Of Constitutionalism in India |
3:30pm-5:30pm ET
Non-Nations in/against Empire
Discussant Rohit De |
Anurag Sinha, Nonsettler Sovereignty in British India: Intervention, Noninterference, and Imperial Rule |
Arwa Awan, Aimé Césaire’s “Tropical Marxism” and the Dilemmas of Anticolonial Sovereignty | |
Sudipta Kaviraj, In Praise of Nehru |
April 30, 2022
9:30am-11:00am ET
Democracy and Violence in Gandhi’s Thought
Discussant Brandon Terry |
Karuna Mantena, Gandhi’s Critique of Violence |
Vivek Yadav, The Playful Roots of Ahimsa: Towards a Non-Violent Ideal of Democratic Politics |
11:30am-1:30pm ET
The People
Discussant Lucia Rubinelli
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Nusrat Chowdhury, Mobs and Megaprojects |
Sandipto Dasgupta, Unevenness and Democracy in India | |
Shozab Raza, A Populist Trinity: Between People’s Power, Worker-Peasant Rule, and the Siraiki Homeland |
2:30pm-4:oopm ET
Language, Caste, and Tamil Identity
Discussant Sudipta Kaviraj |
Deepika Padmanabhan, The Political Roots of Anti-Hindi Sentiment in Tamil Nadu |
Kelvin Ng, Itineraries of Self-Respect: Oceanic Migration, Intellectual Labor and Anti-Caste Reform, 1929–1940 |