Join us for this talk by Professor Gyanendra Pandey on the question of historical and archival neglect in the case of domestic relations and men’s place in the home in the period of militant anti-colonial struggle. This is a keynote address as part of the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) 2018 being held at UBC from March 2nd – 3rd. The other keynote address by Professor Ruby Lal will be held at 11am on March 2nd.
Gyanendra Pandey is the Art and Sciences Distinguished Professor at the Department of History, Emory University, Atlanta. A founding member and leading theorist of the Subaltern Studies project, Pandey has written extensively on colonial and postcolonial South Asia; ethnic conflict and nationalism; race and caste; citizenship and marginality; contemporary politics and democracy; and the history of history-writing. He was trained at the University of Delhi, India and the University of Oxford, U.K., where he held a Rhodes Scholarship, a Nuffield College scholarship and research fellowships at two colleges. He has held full-time teaching appointments at universities and research institutions in India, UK and the USA, and been a Visiting Professor in Japan, Australia and the Netherlands, as well as the UK and the US. Before moving to Emory, he taught at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata; the University of Delhi; and the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Among his single-authored books are A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste and Difference in India and the USA (2013); Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (2006); The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (rev. ed. 2006); The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community and Nation in Northern India, 1920-1940 (rev. ed. 2002); and Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (2001). Three of his monographs were collected in The Gyanendra Pandey Omnibus (2008); and one, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, was reissued as an ‘Oxford India Perennial’ to mark the centenary of Oxford University Press in 2012.
This is a keynote address as part of the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) 2018 being held at UBC from March 2nd – 3rd. If you would like to stay for lunch or dinner as part of the conference, please pre-register for your meals here by February 25 . The cost of meals is $10 for lunch or dinner, each, to be paid in cash on site. Kindly note that the conference does not require a registration fee and the charges are only for meals catered to you during SACPAN.