"Culture, Performance & Transgression on the Margins: A reflection on the making of Gujarat" lecture by Dr. Farhana Ibrahim at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 13th March 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Tuesday Seminar on 'Culture, Performance and Transgression on the Margins: A reflection on the making of Gujarat' by Dr. Farhana Ibrahim, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Abstract : This paper seeks to interrogate the manner in which national histories are produced by the state, and in turn challenged by its subjects. After Benedict Anderson, we know the modern nation state’s self identity is premised upon a singular cultural imagination, constituted by a shared culture, language, and a common pool of memory. This paper addresses the historical process by which a modern Gujarati identity has been constructed for the region through the 19th century, culminating in the designation of the state of Gujarat in 1960, and in the decades that followed. It argues that advertisements, songs, and other visual and aural images of the region, although projected as timeless and self-evident, are the process of an often contentious development over time. Yet they are invested in the projection of a taken-for-granted consensus over the cultural parameters that define the essence of the region and thus the nation. This consensus betrays a certain normative understanding of the region, the drawing of boundaries between insiders and outsiders through the repetition of what seems to be a taken-for-granted cultural memory. Through an analysis of key visual artefacts produced by the region as it seeks to define itself, I seek here to tease apart some of these not quite taken-for-granted elements of Gujarat’s regional history and to reflect on what the implications might be for the articulation of a very different kind of cultural history of the region and by extension, the nation.
Speaker : Dr. Farhana Ibrahim is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Dept. of Humanties and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She has a doctorate in socio-cultural Anthropology from Cornell University and has conducted over ten years of ethnographic research in Gujarat's Kachchh district. Her monograph Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns: An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India was published by Routledge in 2009. She has published in numerous journals including Nomadic Peoples, Contributions to Indian Sociology and Economic and Political Weekly.
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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 The Tuesday Seminar on 'Culture, Performance and Transgression on the Margins: A reflection on the making of Gujarat' by Dr. Farhana Ibrahim, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Abstract : This paper seeks to interrogate the manner in which national histories are produced by the state, and in turn challenged by its subjects. After Benedict Anderson, we know the modern nation state’s self identity is premised upon a singular cultural imagination, constituted by a shared culture, language, and a common pool of memory. This paper addresses the historical process by which a modern Gujarati identity has been constructed for the region through the 19th century, culminating in the designation of the state of Gujarat in 1960, and in the decades that followed. It argues that advertisements, songs, and other visual and aural images of the region, although projected as timeless and self-evident, are the process of an often contentious development over time. Yet they are invested in the projection of a taken-for-granted consensus over the cultural parameters that define the essence of the region and thus the nation. This consensus betrays a certain normative understanding of the region, the drawing of boundaries between insiders and outsiders through the repetition of what seems to be a taken-for-granted cultural memory. Through an analysis of key visual artefacts produced by the region as it seeks to define itself, I seek here to tease apart some of these not quite taken-for-granted elements of Gujarat’s regional history and to reflect on what the implications might be for the articulation of a very different kind of cultural history of the region and by extension, the nation.
Speaker : Dr. Farhana Ibrahim is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Dept. of Humanties and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She has a doctorate in socio-cultural Anthropology from Cornell University and has conducted over ten years of ethnographic research in Gujarat's Kachchh district. Her monograph Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns: An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India was published by Routledge in 2009. She has published in numerous journals including Nomadic Peoples, Contributions to Indian Sociology and Economic and Political Weekly.
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"Culture, Performance & Transgression on the Margins: A reflection on the making of Gujarat" lecture by Dr. Farhana Ibrahim at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 13th March 2012
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