'Aap Kaun Hue?' Or 'What it means to Belong: Studying Community in early twentieth century colonial Kumaon' talk by Prof. Sanjay Joshi at Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 12th July 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 The Seminar on 'Aap Kaun Hue?’ Or ‘What it means to Belong: Studying Community in early twentieth century colonial Kumaon' by Prof. Sanjay Joshi, Department of History, Northern Arizona University, USA.
Abstract:
This paper seeks to understand what it meant to be part of a community, specifically the community of elite Kumaoni Brahmins living in and around Almora in the early twentieth century. The paper examines the affective and material ties that bound the community together, and how changing contexts threatened these bonds. The examination reveals how a dual meaning of belonging was played out in this context. Belonging meant not just being part of or supported by the community, but also being subject to its demands and rules – something akin to being owned by this entity we call community. In recent years at least, “community” has entered historians’ vocabulary primarily in the context of the nation. Deliberately focusing on the everyday and quotidian rather than engaging with the grand narratives of colonialism and nationalism, this paper argues against conflating the ordinary and the everyday with the unimportant or the trivial. It seeks to create some room within historical narratives for the mundane concerns that are, after all, the stuff of everyday life for most of us.
Speaker:
Prof. Sanjay Joshi is professor of History at Northern Arizona University, USA. He also serves as the current Vice President of the American Institute of Indian Studies. He studied at the University of Delhi and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India (2001) and edited ‘The Middle Class in Colonial India as part of the Themes’ in Indian History Series for OUP, Delhi (2011). The presentation at NMML is part of his ongoing research on the family and community in colonial Kumaon.
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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 The Seminar on 'Aap Kaun Hue?’ Or ‘What it means to Belong: Studying Community in early twentieth century colonial Kumaon' by Prof. Sanjay Joshi, Department of History, Northern Arizona University, USA.
Abstract:
This paper seeks to understand what it meant to be part of a community, specifically the community of elite Kumaoni Brahmins living in and around Almora in the early twentieth century. The paper examines the affective and material ties that bound the community together, and how changing contexts threatened these bonds. The examination reveals how a dual meaning of belonging was played out in this context. Belonging meant not just being part of or supported by the community, but also being subject to its demands and rules – something akin to being owned by this entity we call community. In recent years at least, “community” has entered historians’ vocabulary primarily in the context of the nation. Deliberately focusing on the everyday and quotidian rather than engaging with the grand narratives of colonialism and nationalism, this paper argues against conflating the ordinary and the everyday with the unimportant or the trivial. It seeks to create some room within historical narratives for the mundane concerns that are, after all, the stuff of everyday life for most of us.
Speaker:
Prof. Sanjay Joshi is professor of History at Northern Arizona University, USA. He also serves as the current Vice President of the American Institute of Indian Studies. He studied at the University of Delhi and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India (2001) and edited ‘The Middle Class in Colonial India as part of the Themes’ in Indian History Series for OUP, Delhi (2011). The presentation at NMML is part of his ongoing research on the family and community in colonial Kumaon.
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'Aap Kaun Hue?' Or 'What it means to Belong: Studying Community in early twentieth century colonial Kumaon' talk by Prof. Sanjay Joshi at Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 12th July 2012
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