"Abolition of Indentured Emigration & Nationalist Discourse" lecture by Dr. Ashutosh Kumar, Independent Scholar, at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 20th November 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 Weekly Seminar on ‘Abolition of Indentured Emigration and Nationalist Discourse’ by Dr. Ashutosh Kumar, Independent Scholar.

Abstract : This paper seeks to ‘find the gap and fill it up’ in portraying the Indian nationalist campaign against the indentured emigration during the early twentieth century. It looks into the nationalist discourse on the indentured and tries to figure out the way in which Indian nationalists molded their criticism of the system. This paper interrogates the elitism and casteism of Indian nationalists and argues that the question of indentured Indians was not the key issue of concern for them till the first decade of twentieth century but the issue became a meaning full campaign from the beginning of second decade of 20th century. My paper also portrays the nationalist campaign against indentured in public sphere in some details.

Speaker : Dr. Ashutosh Kumar is an Independent Researcher. He received PhD from Department of history, University of Delhi with SEPHIS Scholarship. He has presented papers in international seminars such as in Mauritius and Fiji.

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