'Resistance, Counterinsurgency & Democracy in India' a talk by Prof. Nandini Sundar at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 9th April 2014

Time : 3:00 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture (in the ‘India in Transition’ series) on ‘Resistance, Counterinsurgency and Democracy in India‘ by Prof. Nandini Sundar, University of Delhi, Delhi.

Abstract : This paper looks at the way in which insurgency is framed in official and non-official discourse in contemporary India, the continuities as well as discontinuities with colonial discourse; and the circulating repertoire of counterinsurgency measures across different time periods and different political regimes. While the same counterinsurgency measures  - like regrouping and the use of special police officers or home guards are employed across the world by different regimes, and there are much greater continuities between the colonial and post-colonial periods than discontinuities when it comes to adivasis, they take on a particular inflection in the current Indian context, highlighting the precarious fault lines and potential of Indian democracy.

Speaker : Prof. Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.  Her publications include Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar (2nd ed. 2007; translated in Hindi as Gunda Dhur Ki Talash Mein, 2009), and Branching Out: Joint Forest Management in India (2001).  Several edited volumes have been published or are in progress such as Legal Grounds: Natural Resources, Identity and the Law in Jharkhand, (ed., 2009), Anthropology in the East: The founders of Indian sociology and anthropology, (2007), and the Scheduled Tribes and their India, (forthcoming).  She serves on the boards of several journals including American Anthropologist, Contributions to Indian Sociology, International Journal of Conflict and Violence, and the International Review of the Red Cross. In 2010, she was awarded the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences. Her current interests relate to citizenship, war and counterinsurgency in South Asia, indigenous identity and politics in India, the sociology of law, and inequality. Her public writings are available at nandinisundar.blogspot.com

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