"Early Viswabharati and the vicissitudes of Globality" lecture by Prof. P.K. Datta at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 16th April 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 'Early Viswabharati and the vicissitudes of Globality' by Prof. P.K. Datta, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi.

Abstract : Tagore’s Viswabharati was an attempt to produce, in the context of the first world war, an alternate global habitation to the contemporary processes of “globalisation” that was becoming apparent to Tagore from the late nineteenth century.  Tagore’s venture in globality emerged from already established processes of thinking about co-operatives, work and war among other things. The paper will focus on the relationship between Santiniketan and Sriniketan as the critical axis in which Tagore brings together the different strands of his practices to produce an alternate global habitation.

Speaker : Prof. Pradip Kumar Datta has published in Literature, modern Indian history and Politics. He has authored\edited five books that includes Khaki Shorts Saffron Flags (co-author) and Carving Blocs. His latest volume is Heterogeneities: Identity formations in modern India. He teaches at a multi-disciplinary post in the Dept. of Political Science, University of Delhi and is currently the Head of the Department

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