"On Rivers and Holy Shrines: The Bangladesh-Paschimbanga borderlands 60 years after the Partition of Bengal" lecture by Dr. Annu Jalais at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 17th February 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
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 ‘On Rivers and Holy Shrines: The Bangladesh-Paschimbanga borderlands 60 years after the Partition of Bengal’ by Dr. Annu Jalais, an Anthropologist from London School of Economics, UK.
Abstract : This presentation is based on ethnographic study, conducted along the Bangladesh/West Bengal borderlands between 2007 and 2009, exploring how people on both sides of the mainly southern Bengali border construct their ideas of being Bengali. Partition politics divided communities along geo-religious lines turning some citizens into ‘first-class ones’ and others into what Schendel has called ‘proxy-citizens’. Those living in the islands of southern Bengal, the region Dampier and Hodges called ‘the Sundarbans’, were brought from many different regions and were socially divided not primarily along religious lines, but on whether they were forest workers or cultivators. Sixty years after Radcliff’s arbitrary dividing stroke, to what extent does the study of today’s complex geo-political Sundarbans borderland provide a canvas for ‘rethinking wider social theory, especially with regard to how we conceptualize social space’ (Schendel 2004:4)?
Speaker : Dr. Annu Jalais is an anthropologist with extensive field work and publications on the recent history of the Sundarbans. She is at present a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she is working on a book on marginalized Bengali identities.
Her PhD thesis (LSE) was an anthropological study of the Sundarbans and has been rewritten into a book titled Forest of Tigers: People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans (2010). Over the last four years she has spent long spells in the field researching in Bangladesh and West Bengal. This is part of a forthcoming co-authored work with Drs. Joya Chatterji and Claire Alexander, a book on ‘The Bengali Muslim Diaspora: Migration, Displacement and Settlement in Bangladesh, India and Britain’.
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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
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on ‘On Rivers and Holy Shrines: The Bangladesh-Paschimbanga borderlands 60 years after the Partition of Bengal’ by Dr. Annu Jalais, an Anthropologist from London School of Economics, UK.
Abstract : This presentation is based on ethnographic study, conducted along the Bangladesh/West Bengal borderlands between 2007 and 2009, exploring how people on both sides of the mainly southern Bengali border construct their ideas of being Bengali. Partition politics divided communities along geo-religious lines turning some citizens into ‘first-class ones’ and others into what Schendel has called ‘proxy-citizens’. Those living in the islands of southern Bengal, the region Dampier and Hodges called ‘the Sundarbans’, were brought from many different regions and were socially divided not primarily along religious lines, but on whether they were forest workers or cultivators. Sixty years after Radcliff’s arbitrary dividing stroke, to what extent does the study of today’s complex geo-political Sundarbans borderland provide a canvas for ‘rethinking wider social theory, especially with regard to how we conceptualize social space’ (Schendel 2004:4)?
Speaker : Dr. Annu Jalais is an anthropologist with extensive field work and publications on the recent history of the Sundarbans. She is at present a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she is working on a book on marginalized Bengali identities.
Her PhD thesis (LSE) was an anthropological study of the Sundarbans and has been rewritten into a book titled Forest of Tigers: People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans (2010). Over the last four years she has spent long spells in the field researching in Bangladesh and West Bengal. This is part of a forthcoming co-authored work with Drs. Joya Chatterji and Claire Alexander, a book on ‘The Bengali Muslim Diaspora: Migration, Displacement and Settlement in Bangladesh, India and Britain’.
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"On Rivers and Holy Shrines: The Bangladesh-Paschimbanga borderlands 60 years after the Partition of Bengal" lecture by Dr. Annu Jalais at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 17th February 2012
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