"In Terra Nullius: The legacies of science and colonialism in the Andaman Islands" a talk by Prof. Vishvajit Pandya at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 22nd May 2013
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture in the ‘Science, society and nature’ series on ‘In Terra Nullius: The legacies of science and colonialism in the Andaman Islands’ by Prof. Vishvajit Pandya, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Ahmedabad.
Abstract : This lecture will explore the colonial historical legacies that inform the contemporary debate on the future of the indigenous communities of the Andaman Islands, particularly the Jarawas. It begins by drawing attention to a recent debate around a Supreme Court order of March 2013 and follows its implications on the future trajectories of tribal welfare policy. It argues that frequently shifting positions on ‘mainstreaming’ or ‘preserving’ the Jarawa and other indigenous communities is reflective of a larger policy dilemma facing the Indian state in the Andaman Islands. It locates the political genealogy of this dilemma in the colonial ‘framing’ of the Andaman Islanders as a people of ‘scientific value’ but an ‘administrative liability.’ This lecture traces the constitutive moments through which science and colonial political rationality converged in the production of this ambivalence around the Andaman Islanders and created the conditions of their perpetual vulnerability to successive colonial projects. It argues that the present dilemmas of tribal welfare policy can only be addressed by attempts to historicize and thereby question the colonial categories that continue to see the Islands as ‘terra nullius’ or ‘empty space’ and the Andaman Islanders as mere links, or traces in the scientific narratives of human evolution.
Speaker : Prof. Vishvajit Pandya is a Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, USA and is currently Professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Ahmedabad.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building, 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 Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture in the ‘Science, society and nature’ series on ‘In Terra Nullius: The legacies of science and colonialism in the Andaman Islands’ by Prof. Vishvajit Pandya, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Ahmedabad.
Abstract : This lecture will explore the colonial historical legacies that inform the contemporary debate on the future of the indigenous communities of the Andaman Islands, particularly the Jarawas. It begins by drawing attention to a recent debate around a Supreme Court order of March 2013 and follows its implications on the future trajectories of tribal welfare policy. It argues that frequently shifting positions on ‘mainstreaming’ or ‘preserving’ the Jarawa and other indigenous communities is reflective of a larger policy dilemma facing the Indian state in the Andaman Islands. It locates the political genealogy of this dilemma in the colonial ‘framing’ of the Andaman Islanders as a people of ‘scientific value’ but an ‘administrative liability.’ This lecture traces the constitutive moments through which science and colonial political rationality converged in the production of this ambivalence around the Andaman Islanders and created the conditions of their perpetual vulnerability to successive colonial projects. It argues that the present dilemmas of tribal welfare policy can only be addressed by attempts to historicize and thereby question the colonial categories that continue to see the Islands as ‘terra nullius’ or ‘empty space’ and the Andaman Islanders as mere links, or traces in the scientific narratives of human evolution.
Speaker : Prof. Vishvajit Pandya is a Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, USA and is currently Professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Ahmedabad.
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"In Terra Nullius: The legacies of science and colonialism in the Andaman Islands" a talk by Prof. Vishvajit Pandya at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 22nd May 2013
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