A talk by Gyanendra Pandey (Emory)
A talk by Gyanendra Pandey
On his new book,
"Fragments of Family: Men at Home in Colonial and Postcolonial India"
Discussant: Katherine Ewing, Professor of Religion and Director, South Asia Institute
Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: Knox Hall, Room 208, 606 West 122nd Street
Note: a luncheon will be served following the talk. To attend the lunch, please RSVP to Annapurna Schreiber at [email protected].
Gyanendra Pandey is the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, and Director, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, at Emory University. Pandey was trained at the University of Delhi, India and the University of Oxford, U.K., where he held a Rhodes Scholarship and Nuffield College graduate scholarship, before taking up a research and teaching fellowship for four years. Since then, he has held tenured appointments at leading universities and research institutions in India, UK and the USA, and been a visiting professor in Japan, Australia, the Netherlands, UK and USA. 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.
A founding member and leading theorist of the Subaltern Studies project, Pandey has written extensively on colonial and postcolonial South Asia, nationalism and minorities, civil rights and democracy, and the history of history-writing. 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 are collected in The Gyanendra Pandey Omnibus (2008); and The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India was re-issued as an ‘Oxford India Perennial’ to mark the centenary of Oxford University Press in 2012.