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HISTORY HOUR Colonial Liberalism and Subaltern Politics: A Reappraisal Uday Chandra Assistant Professor, Georgetown University in Qatar, Doha Moderated by Dale Luis Menezes Fellow, Georgetown University in Qatar, Doha Please join us for a History Hour lecture on ‘Colonial Liberalism and Subaltern Politics: A Reappraisal’ by Uday Chandra and moderated by Dale Luis Menezes on Friday, 17 January 2025 at 6 pm at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim. Please join us for tea at 5:30 pm. INDIA’S POLITICS IN ITS VERNACULARS The India’s Politics in its Vernaculars project is a major international collaboration of 24 scholars, analysing the conceptual vocabulary of Indian politics across 17 languages. It aims to document key features of political language nationwide and develop a theoretical framework rooted in indigenous concepts, reflecting how Indian political actors understand and engage in politics. Colonial Liberalism and Subaltern Politics A Reappraisal Relations between marginalized groups in Indian society and the colonial state have typically been interpreted as fundamentally antagonistic. Such an understanding informed much of the scholarship produced by the Subaltern Studies collective, and endures in refracted form in contemporary perspectives about for instance, the unprecedented significance of independent India’s constitutional moment in the mid-20th century. This talk proposes an alternative perspective on the matter by identifying fairly prolonged engagements of subaltern communities with the state under colonial rule that were marked not by conflict, but on the contrary, indicated mutual intelligibility and communication. In particular, I survey key moments in the history of Dalit and Adivasi engagements with the colonial state to advance our hypothesis. In so doing, I invite reconsideration of widely held assumptions about both subaltern consciousness and its supposed antinomy in colonial liberalism, thereby laying the groundwork for a possible re-envisioning of the historical significance and legacies of British colonialism in India. Uday Chandra Uday Chandra is Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University in Qatar. His research lies at the intersection between critical agrarian studies, political anthropology, postcolonial theory, and South Asian Studies. His research has focused on caste, tribe, and the state in modern India, as well as indigeneity and mobility in a broader comparative postcolonial canvas. Chandra is the author of Resistance as Negotiation: Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India (Stanford University Press, 2024) and is working on a second book manuscript tentatively titled Democracy sans Liberalism. Dale Luis Menezes Dale Luis Menezes is a historian at Georgetown University, Washington DC working on the importance of rice and coconut cultivation in the Portuguese empire, from 1500s till about 1800s. Currently on a Georgetown University Qatar Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Menezes is finishing his dissertation. His research closely observes society in one village in early modern Goa, zooming out to explain how empire and transoceanic systems slowly developed from the 1500s at the local, regional, and global levels. He is interested in understanding the motivation of locals who participated in the Portuguese empire. Xavier Centre of Historical Research B B Borkar Road, Porvorim, Goa 403521, India xchr.in [ https://substack.com/redirect/72b10150-f250-42d9-aff5-b0d3757cadf7?j=eyJ1IjoiNGV5MGV6In0.0csY8RXEuOjn2igHnDNwDp-ipnCOJv5IEwUvVB1W7Xk ] | [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] ] SUPPORT XCHR The Xavier Centre of Historical Research (XCHR) constantly relies on the support of its friends and benefactors. If you would like to donate to the XCHR, please get in touch with us. Thank you very much. EMAIL [ mailto:[email protected] ] Unsubscribe https://substack.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.ykMde-WNkjzqc33Ds6GZXMWMVbL57dtJmQpDmReUxHo? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/20250116043444.3.c7b77940041fddeb%40mg2.substack.com.
