MARCH 16: The Past and Memory: Locations of Indian History

[Frederick Noronha]

Concept Note (see detailed programme attached)

The Past and Memory: Locations of Indian History Memory consciousness emerges under the sign of what has already happened and is integral to our
social world. Memory, as the womb of history, remains the guardian of the past and harbours a range of affects, meanings, and unspoken stories that constitute people’s imaginative possibilities and horizons of expectation. Similarly, memory can be strategic—it can signal action, power, capacity, and identity.

Discussions of memory need to distinguish among its three dimensions: individual, public, and archival. Memory consciousness is integral to personal identity, and exchanges occur between individual and public memory. Should the memory be certified and accredited? It is here, during the documentary phase, that the process of making an archive begins, and the trustworthiness we assign to the archive is generated in this process. What is now known as testimony is the transformation of oral testimony into archival form. More importantly, a physical, spatial, and social space is created for memory to be inscribed, preserved, and externalised as testimony. Similarly, when memory contributes to an archive, it passes from being personal to being a public claim about the past. Exploring the nature of memory thus becomes another means of exploring the nature of truth in history.

This national conference aims to explore memories as a resource for understanding the past, and this requires that we raise more questions and explore possibilities across the realms of the interpersonal, social, and historical. The conference aspires to initiate a collective reflection on memory and the locations of history through the sharing of reflections by scholars working in various Indian regions in an interdisciplinary mode. It would be organised around the following themes.

 Memory and archives
 Memory and identity
 Memory and migration
 Memory and forgetting
 Memory and cultural history
 Memory and heritage
 Memory and the process of forgetting
 Memory, truth, and falsehood
 Memory, commemoration, rememoration
 Memory and literature
 Memory and Political economy

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[Rudi Heredia]

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[William Robert Da Silva]

Falls short of the memories so many occupational castes of ganvponn appropriated by ganvkari and zonn in Konkann. Take the memory of Dadu Mandrekar and the Mittgauddo, and much more (Govlli, Dhagar, Velip, Gabit, Kharvi, Kelxi, tamtti, moddvoll, ghaddi, zollmi, etc. There is a major historical error in memory in Sharma-Varma transformation among the Kadim, Kadmale or Kadamba. The memory of Kadim as Jain preserved in popular memory in Durut Ray in Kanara, both women's oral and men's gumott.

W R Da Silva

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