"Un-archived Histories: Reflections on the struggle against caste and race in India and the USA" lecture by Prof. Gyanendra Pandey at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 19th December 2011
Time : 3:00 pm
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on ‘Un-archived Histories: Reflections on the struggle against caste and race in India and the USA’ by Prof. Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Every instance of archiving is accompanied by a process of ‘un-archiving’: rendering many aspects of social, cultural, political relations in the past and the present as incidental, chaotic, trivial, inconsequential, and therefore ‘unhistorical’. For Foucault, as we know, madness (or un-reason) designated the limits of reason and history, hence too the limits of the archive. I want to draw attention to another boundary of history and the archive, one that is marked not by the ‘exile’ (such as the ‘madman’, who is set outside society and thereby history), but by the ‘ordinary’, the ‘everyday’, the ever-present, yet trivialized or ‘trifling’: conditions, practices, relationships, expectations and agendas so common as to not even be noticed.
In my talk, I explore the realm of ‘un-archived histories’ through an examination of signs, traces, evidence of human activities and relationships – the body as a register of events; inchoate dreams; gestures, pauses, gut-reactions – that cannot easily be articulated or read, let alone archived, but that nevertheless call out for attention in our historical investigations. I turn for this exercise to some research I have been doing on the African American and Dalit struggles in India and the USA, and on the prejudices central to the question of caste and race.
Speaker : Prof. Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and Director, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Workshop at Emory University, USA. He is a founding member and leading theorist of the Subaltern Studies project, and editor of the Routledge book series, Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Before moving to Emory, he taught at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata; the University of Delhi; and the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
He is the author, among other writings, of Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (2006); The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (rev. ed. 2006); and Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (2001), and editor of Subaltern Citizens and their Histories: Investigations from India and the USA (2010), and Subalternity and Difference: Investigations from the North and the South (2011). He has just completed a history of the African American and Dalit struggles, tentatively entitled A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste and Difference in India and the USA.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library ( NMML ), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on ‘Un-archived Histories: Reflections on the struggle against caste and race in India and the USA’ by Prof. Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Every instance of archiving is accompanied by a process of ‘un-archiving’: rendering many aspects of social, cultural, political relations in the past and the present as incidental, chaotic, trivial, inconsequential, and therefore ‘unhistorical’. For Foucault, as we know, madness (or un-reason) designated the limits of reason and history, hence too the limits of the archive. I want to draw attention to another boundary of history and the archive, one that is marked not by the ‘exile’ (such as the ‘madman’, who is set outside society and thereby history), but by the ‘ordinary’, the ‘everyday’, the ever-present, yet trivialized or ‘trifling’: conditions, practices, relationships, expectations and agendas so common as to not even be noticed.
In my talk, I explore the realm of ‘un-archived histories’ through an examination of signs, traces, evidence of human activities and relationships – the body as a register of events; inchoate dreams; gestures, pauses, gut-reactions – that cannot easily be articulated or read, let alone archived, but that nevertheless call out for attention in our historical investigations. I turn for this exercise to some research I have been doing on the African American and Dalit struggles in India and the USA, and on the prejudices central to the question of caste and race.
Speaker : Prof. Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and Director, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Workshop at Emory University, USA. He is a founding member and leading theorist of the Subaltern Studies project, and editor of the Routledge book series, Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Before moving to Emory, he taught at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata; the University of Delhi; and the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
He is the author, among other writings, of Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (2006); The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (rev. ed. 2006); and Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (2001), and editor of Subaltern Citizens and their Histories: Investigations from India and the USA (2010), and Subalternity and Difference: Investigations from the North and the South (2011). He has just completed a history of the African American and Dalit struggles, tentatively entitled A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste and Difference in India and the USA.
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"Un-archived Histories: Reflections on the struggle against caste and race in India and the USA" lecture by Prof. Gyanendra Pandey at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 19th December 2011
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