Fwd: 8th Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial lecture to be held on the 12th of January 2017.
Yashwant Zagade
8th Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial lecture to be held on the 12th of January 2017.
All are cordially invited to a lecture on
“DR. AMBEDKAR AND DEMOCRACY”
To be delivered by
Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot
(Professor, Indian Politics & Sociology, King's India Institute, London, and Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
Chair:
Adv. Prakash Ambedkar
(National leader of Bharatiya republican Paksh Bahujan Mahasangh)
Date: 12th January 2017
Time: 5:30 pm to 8 pm
VENUE:
YMCA, 18, YMCA Road, Mumbai Central, Near Maratha Mandir, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400008
Organised by:
Mumbai Regional Office, ActionAid India,
Maharashtra Lok Adhikar Manch
Centre for Study of Society and Secularism
Centre for Development Research and Action
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Contemporary Studies
Professor
Christophe Jaffrelot is Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King's India Institute at London, and Research Director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Paris. He also
teaches South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po (Paris) and is an Overseas Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was awarded the 2014 Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism in commentary/interpretive writing and the
Brienne Prize for geopolitics by the Defense Ministry of France for his book
Le Syndrome Pakistanais. Jaffrelot is the author of several books including
Religion, Caste and Politics in India (2011), Dr. Amebedkar and Untouchability
(2004), India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India (2003).
Adv.
Prakash Ambedkar is national leader of Bharatiya Republican Pakch Bahujan Mahasangh. He is the grandson of Bharat Ratna Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. He has twice represented the Lok Sabha constituency
of Akola, Maharashtra, India. He has served in both houses of the Indian Parliament.
About the lecture:
The lecture would elaborate on the contribution of Dr. Ambedkar to Democracy. Dr Ambedkar envisioned democracy from Indian shramanic traditions as were seen in Buddhism, Jainism, and other rational traditions of the country. Dr. Ambedkar endeavoured to take the Constituent Assembly through the debates whilst always upholding the rights of the dalits, minorities and the marginalised. The entwined relationship between economic and political democracy as conceptualised by Dr Ambedkar would be discussed further.
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