'Reviewing Partition, Reclaiming Lost Ground: A critical recovery of Mridula Sarabhai and the recovery of abducted women' a talk by Prof. Ayesha Kidwai at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 30th 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 on ‘Reviewing Partition, Reclaiming Lost Ground: A critical recovery of Mridula Sarabhai and the recovery of abducted women’ by Prof. Ayesha Kidwai, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Abstract : In this talk, the speaker argues for a re-examination of the by-now standard conclusion that Mridula Sarabhai and her social workers' efforts and intentions in the recovery of women abducted under the Abducted Persons (Recovery and Rehabilitation) Ordinances and Act, in force till 1957, were in consonance with those of the patriarchal State. Using the newspaper archive from the period, the speaker shall contend that the perception that the 'recovery' operation signalled, in the words of Das (1995: p.73) "an alliance between the state and social work as a profession, which silences the voice of victims by an application of the ‘best interest' doctrine" to be a reading that occludes the complexities of the past, and the internal history of the close to decade long recovery operation, in which Sarabhai and her ‘social workers' were headed on a collision course with social mores, the political class, police and administration.
Speaker : Prof. Ayesha Kidwai teaches linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. This interest in the popular history of Partition stems from her other life as a translator of Anis Kidwai's memoir of the period (In Freedom's Shade, 2011), and her involvement with the contemporary women's movement.
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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
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 on ‘Reviewing Partition, Reclaiming Lost Ground: A critical recovery of Mridula Sarabhai and the recovery of abducted women’ by Prof. Ayesha Kidwai, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Abstract : In this talk, the speaker argues for a re-examination of the by-now standard conclusion that Mridula Sarabhai and her social workers' efforts and intentions in the recovery of women abducted under the Abducted Persons (Recovery and Rehabilitation) Ordinances and Act, in force till 1957, were in consonance with those of the patriarchal State. Using the newspaper archive from the period, the speaker shall contend that the perception that the 'recovery' operation signalled, in the words of Das (1995: p.73) "an alliance between the state and social work as a profession, which silences the voice of victims by an application of the ‘best interest' doctrine" to be a reading that occludes the complexities of the past, and the internal history of the close to decade long recovery operation, in which Sarabhai and her ‘social workers' were headed on a collision course with social mores, the political class, police and administration.
Speaker : Prof. Ayesha Kidwai teaches linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. This interest in the popular history of Partition stems from her other life as a translator of Anis Kidwai's memoir of the period (In Freedom's Shade, 2011), and her involvement with the contemporary women's movement.
Related Links : Talks | History | Women
'Reviewing Partition, Reclaiming Lost Ground: A critical recovery of Mridula Sarabhai and the recovery of abducted women' a talk by Prof. Ayesha Kidwai at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 30th April 2014
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