Event time:
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 5:00pm
Location:
Whitney Humanities Center, (WHC 208)
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Gyanendra Pandey, “Modernity in the Home: A Reflection on 20th Century India”
Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Emory University. A founding member and leading theorist of the Subaltern Studies project, he has written extensively on colonial and postcolonial South Asia, nationalism and minorities, civil rights and democracy, and the history of history-writing. Among his single-authored books are A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the USA; Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories; The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India; The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community, and Nation in Northern India, 1920–1940; and Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India. He is currently working on a comparative study of the practice of democracy, past and present; and on a history of 20th-century India as seen from the location of family and home.
The lectures are made possible by the generosity of Richard and Barbara Franke, and are intended to present important topics in the Humanities to a wide and general audience.
For more information, please contact the Whitney Humanities Center at 203 432-0670 or email whitneyhumanitiescenter@yale.edu.