Fwd: [MCS2016 SMSCS] Friday, 8th August- Public Talk: Faisal Devji on Ambedkar and the Politics of Interest
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Culture Cafe
School of Media and Cultural Studies,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
invites you to a talk
Ambedkar and the Politics of Interest
by
Faisal Devji
Date: Friday, 08 August 2014
Time: 6.00 PM
(Tea will be served at 5.30 PM)
Venue:
Library Conference Hall
Main Campus, TISS,
V.N. Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai - 400088
About the Talk
Indian historiography is curiously dualistic in character, dealing with political relations one dyad at a time. Thus the relationship of upper and lower castes is treated separately from that of Hindus and Muslims, or Aryan and Dravidian movements. This lecture will situate Ambedkar’s thought within a larger context and conversation about the role of “interest” in Indian politics. Its aim is to show how interest, generally taken as the most basic category of politics, was in fact put into question in interesting ways during the 1930’s and ‘40s.
About the Speaker
Dr Faisal Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History. He is the Director of the Asian Studies Centre at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. He has held faculty positions at the New School in New York, Yale University and the University of Chicago, from where he also received his PhD in Intellectual History. Devji was Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, and Head of Graduate Studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, from where he directed post-graduate courses in the Near East and Central Asia. He is a Fellow at New York University’s Institute of Public Knowledge and Yves Otramane Chair at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Dr Devji is the author of four books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2009), The Impossible India: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2012) and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (2013). He is interested in Indian political thought as well as that of modern Islam. Devji’s broader concerns have to do with ethics and violence in a globalized world.
About Culture Cafe
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