"Village Communities and Sacred Groves: Tacitus in British India" lecture by Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 12th January 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on 'Village Communities and Sacred Groves: Tacitus in British India' by Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Leeds University.
A text foundational to European constructions of national identity is Germania, a report on the economic and cultural institutions of the early Germanic tribes compiled by the Roman historian and administrator Cornelius Tacitus. This paper demonstrates that Germania was equally foundational in another, much later, Imperial context that of British India. Drawing on a range of archival material pertaining to the governance of India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the European reception of Germania during the same period, I argue for Germania's seminal role in the discursive development of two enduring and politically charged concepts within colonial and postcolonial South Asia: the village community and the sacred grove. Modernity's obsessions with land, law and language are thereby revealed as being fundamentally dependent on the intellectual genealogy of Imperial Medievalism: the discursive and affective interdependence of modern Europe's twin 'others', the colonies and its medieval past.
Speaker : Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of the Humanities at the School of English, University of Leeds; she has been a Prize Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley. Her research cumulatively examines diverse forms of cultural expression and their relationship to conflict, trauma and survival, and (more recently) modernity. She also enjoys working with different languages. She is the author of Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon England (CUP, 2002), the co-edited Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages (CUP, 2005), Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir and numerous essays on medievalism, modernity and empire. As an Arts and Humanities Council (UK)’s Knowledge Transfer Fellow (2007-2010), she co-curated the exhibition and associated programmes, ‘Between Kismet and Karma: South Asian Women Artists Respond to Conflict’. As British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow (2011-12), she is currently writing a book entitled Partition’s Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971 and Modern South Asia, while formulating a new project on modernity and transoceanic rhythm cultures, and continuing to work on what she terms 'Imperial Medievalism' (the subject of her seminar).
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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 'Village Communities and Sacred Groves: Tacitus in British India' by Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Leeds University.
A text foundational to European constructions of national identity is Germania, a report on the economic and cultural institutions of the early Germanic tribes compiled by the Roman historian and administrator Cornelius Tacitus. This paper demonstrates that Germania was equally foundational in another, much later, Imperial context that of British India. Drawing on a range of archival material pertaining to the governance of India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the European reception of Germania during the same period, I argue for Germania's seminal role in the discursive development of two enduring and politically charged concepts within colonial and postcolonial South Asia: the village community and the sacred grove. Modernity's obsessions with land, law and language are thereby revealed as being fundamentally dependent on the intellectual genealogy of Imperial Medievalism: the discursive and affective interdependence of modern Europe's twin 'others', the colonies and its medieval past.
Speaker : Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of the Humanities at the School of English, University of Leeds; she has been a Prize Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley. Her research cumulatively examines diverse forms of cultural expression and their relationship to conflict, trauma and survival, and (more recently) modernity. She also enjoys working with different languages. She is the author of Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon England (CUP, 2002), the co-edited Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages (CUP, 2005), Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir and numerous essays on medievalism, modernity and empire. As an Arts and Humanities Council (UK)’s Knowledge Transfer Fellow (2007-2010), she co-curated the exhibition and associated programmes, ‘Between Kismet and Karma: South Asian Women Artists Respond to Conflict’. As British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow (2011-12), she is currently writing a book entitled Partition’s Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971 and Modern South Asia, while formulating a new project on modernity and transoceanic rhythm cultures, and continuing to work on what she terms 'Imperial Medievalism' (the subject of her seminar).
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"Village Communities and Sacred Groves: Tacitus in British India" lecture by Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 12th January 2012
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