[Soasiastudents] REMINDER: TODAY (Mar 12), Kaviraj on "Politics of Subalternity", Thom 317, 3:00 PM

[Juned Shaikh]

South Asia Center Presents:

The Dignity and Subalterns in South Asia Lecture Series
Supported by the College of Arts and Sciences Exchange Grant Program

Politics of Subalternity 
By Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of South Asian
Politics, Columbia University
Monday, March 12, 3:00 PM, Thom 317

In this paper, Sudipta Kaviraj argues that conventional theories of subalternity
are not adequate for understanding caste humiliation in India.

Sudipta Kaviraj is a renowned political theorist, a foremost political scientist of India, and a member of the Subaltern Studies Collective. He is the author of The Unhappy Consciousness : Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of
Nationalist Discourse In India (OUP, 1995) ; the editor of  Politics in India
(OUP, 1997); and the co-editor, along with Sunil Khilnani of , Civil Society :
History And Possibilities (Cambridge, 2001)
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Juned Shaikh,
Ph.D. Student,
Department of History,
R.A. South Asia Center,
University of Washington.
juneds at u.washington.edu