'The Ayodhya Dispute: The Absent Mosque, State of Emergency and the Jural Deity' a talk by Deepak Mehta at Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:15pm on 21st March 2014
Time : 6:15 pm 
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : The Lecture “The Ayodhya Dispute: The Absent Mosque, State of Emergency and the Jural Deity” by Deepak Mehta is part of the SHSS Inaugural Lecture Series organized by The School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), Shiv Nadar University. These are weekly public lectures delivered by the faculty members of SHSS covering their current work and research. As a shorthand index of the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhumi impasse, the Ayodya dispute is notoriously difficult to pin down. It is at once a contest over property, historical and archeological interpretation, cultural tradition and the place of Muslims in India. From the point of view of legal material, the dispute, at a minimum, points to a government bound by fixed rules applicable to all, but the connotative qualities of the court cases are more expansive, covering the history of late of colonial north India and putting into crisis the guarantee of Constitutional Secularism in post-colonial India. Strictly speaking the dispute in law is modern but its genealogy is more complicated, troubling the boundary between myth and history. This project is concerned with eliciting the legal and official debates around the Ayodhya dispute.
As Prof. Mehta sees it, the dispute may be mapped in terms of two broad movements. The first extends roughly from 1885 to 1992; the second deals with litigation arising after the demolition of the Babri mosque – from 1993 to the present. It is Prof. Mehta’s connotation that the first movement is based on a balance sheet, or status quo model of preserving the peace between Hindus, Muslims and various state agencies. While this harmony stabilizes the claims of various litigious parties, in important ways it is unable to address the destruction of the mosque and the subsequent rioting in large parts of India. After the demolition of the mosque in December1992 we find the use of emergency provisions in law – specifically Article 356 of the Indian Constitution – to re-install the guarantee of Constitutional secularism. The demolition points to radical political transgression of the balance sheet in two separate but linked ways: it was and continues to remain rooted in a deep doubt that lies at the heart of secularism; in institutional terms the balance sheet is unable to establish the possibilities of the future in such a way that the demolition may be domesticated and re-inscribed within the rule. The paradox that the demolition throws up is that secularism is achieved by suspending the operations of normal law. In looking at the legal literature that deals with the demolition Prof. Mehta argues that the destruction of the mosque enters into an economy of damage where different kinds of depreciations are used to understand the claims of contending groups. Such claims emerge from unstable signifying regimes that draw their resources from imagined modes of violence, worship and ownership. Central to such worship and ownership is the status of the Rama deity and birthplace as a jural person.
Language: English
About the Artist: Deepak Mehta received his Ph. D. from University of Delhi. He is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar University. He is the author of Work, Ritual, Biography: A Muslim Community in North India (1997) and co-author of Living With Violence: An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life (2007). He is co-editor of Riot Discourses (2006), as well as the author of numerous research articles.
Organization: Shiv Nadar University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Shiv Nadar University is an international, multi-disciplinary research-led university. Located on a 286-acre campus in India's National Capital Region, the University offers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programs in a range of disciplines in engineering, humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, communication, business, and education. SNU is a private philanthropic institution established by the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 2011 through an act of the State
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Khan Market(Vilolet Line)' & 'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Description : The Lecture “The Ayodhya Dispute: The Absent Mosque, State of Emergency and the Jural Deity” by Deepak Mehta is part of the SHSS Inaugural Lecture Series organized by The School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), Shiv Nadar University. These are weekly public lectures delivered by the faculty members of SHSS covering their current work and research. As a shorthand index of the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhumi impasse, the Ayodya dispute is notoriously difficult to pin down. It is at once a contest over property, historical and archeological interpretation, cultural tradition and the place of Muslims in India. From the point of view of legal material, the dispute, at a minimum, points to a government bound by fixed rules applicable to all, but the connotative qualities of the court cases are more expansive, covering the history of late of colonial north India and putting into crisis the guarantee of Constitutional Secularism in post-colonial India. Strictly speaking the dispute in law is modern but its genealogy is more complicated, troubling the boundary between myth and history. This project is concerned with eliciting the legal and official debates around the Ayodhya dispute.
As Prof. Mehta sees it, the dispute may be mapped in terms of two broad movements. The first extends roughly from 1885 to 1992; the second deals with litigation arising after the demolition of the Babri mosque – from 1993 to the present. It is Prof. Mehta’s connotation that the first movement is based on a balance sheet, or status quo model of preserving the peace between Hindus, Muslims and various state agencies. While this harmony stabilizes the claims of various litigious parties, in important ways it is unable to address the destruction of the mosque and the subsequent rioting in large parts of India. After the demolition of the mosque in December1992 we find the use of emergency provisions in law – specifically Article 356 of the Indian Constitution – to re-install the guarantee of Constitutional secularism. The demolition points to radical political transgression of the balance sheet in two separate but linked ways: it was and continues to remain rooted in a deep doubt that lies at the heart of secularism; in institutional terms the balance sheet is unable to establish the possibilities of the future in such a way that the demolition may be domesticated and re-inscribed within the rule. The paradox that the demolition throws up is that secularism is achieved by suspending the operations of normal law. In looking at the legal literature that deals with the demolition Prof. Mehta argues that the destruction of the mosque enters into an economy of damage where different kinds of depreciations are used to understand the claims of contending groups. Such claims emerge from unstable signifying regimes that draw their resources from imagined modes of violence, worship and ownership. Central to such worship and ownership is the status of the Rama deity and birthplace as a jural person.
Language: English
About the Artist: Deepak Mehta received his Ph. D. from University of Delhi. He is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar University. He is the author of Work, Ritual, Biography: A Muslim Community in North India (1997) and co-author of Living With Violence: An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life (2007). He is co-editor of Riot Discourses (2006), as well as the author of numerous research articles.
Organization: Shiv Nadar University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Shiv Nadar University is an international, multi-disciplinary research-led university. Located on a 286-acre campus in India's National Capital Region, the University offers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programs in a range of disciplines in engineering, humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, communication, business, and education. SNU is a private philanthropic institution established by the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 2011 through an act of the State
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'The Ayodhya Dispute: The Absent Mosque, State of Emergency and the Jural Deity' a talk by Deepak Mehta at Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:15pm on 21st March 2014
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