Decolonization: Change and Continuity - Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Wed, 09 Dec
|Zoom meet
Prof. Bandyopadhyay will respond to questions from social science teachers based on his most recent talk delivered on the Karwaan: The Heritage Exploration Initiative platform(https://bit.ly/39oLkGa). Send your questions at https://bit.ly/33oIL38. Last date for submission: 3 December 2020.
Time & Location
09 Dec 2020, 11:00 am IST
Zoom meet
About the Event
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, a specialist on the history of modern India, has written extensively on the meanings and complexities of India’s experience of transition from colonial to the post-colonial period. What freedom actually meant to various individuals, communities and political parties, how they responded to it, how they extended its meaning and how in their anxiety to confront the realities of free India, they began to invent new enemies of their newly acquired freedom.
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is a professor and Director at New Zealand India Research Institute. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay has published several books and many articles in his field. Caste, Culture and Hegemony: Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal, Caste, Protest and Identity in Colonial India: The Namasudras of Bengal 1872-1947 and Caste, Politics and The Raj: Bengal 1872-1937 are his other books. In 1992 he joined Victoria University, where he has been Deputy Dean and an Associate Dean (Research) in the…