Columbia symposium on caste

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Is there a plan to publish the symposium papers?

Thanks.

 

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Caste and its Discontents: Rethinking the Nation

 

A Symposium of the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia

University, New York

 

Friday, October 18, 2002

Altschul Auditorium

International Affairs Building

420 West 118th Street

 

10:15 a.m. Welcome and Introduction - Gauri Viswanathan, Director

10:30 a.m. Session One - Gender, Religion, Race, and Caste

 

Chair: Gauri Viswanathan, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia

University

 

V. Geetha, Tara Publishing, Chennai,

"Sexualizing Identities: Gender, Caste, and Gujarat"

Balmurli Natrajan, Iowa State University,

"The Culture Trap or How To Be Different and Occupy the Same Space"

Gail Omvedt, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi,

"The Bhakti Movement and Caste"

Respondents: Anupama Rao, History, Barnard College; and Milind

Wakankar, English, State University of New York at Stony Brook

 

12:45 p.m. Lunch Break

2:00 p.m. Session Two - Caste and the Structures of Power

 

Chair: E. Valentine Daniel, Anthropology, Columbia University

 

Kancha Ilaiah, Political Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad,

"On Being an Un-Hindu India"

Nicholas Dirks, History and Anthropology, Columbia University,

"Caste and Colonialism"

M. S. S. Pandian, Cultural Studies, George Washington University,

"Modernity and Caste"

Respondents: Ravindran Sriramachandran, Anthropology, Columbia

University; and Krishnan Rajan, Anthropology, Columbia University

 

4:15 p.m. Break

4:30 p.m. Session Three - Moving Towards Equal Opportunity

 

Chair: Partha Chatterjee, Anthropology, Columbia University

 

D. Shyam Babu, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, Delhi,

"Unrepresentative Democracy: Dalits' Political Rights After Seventy

Years of the Poona Pact"

Chandra Bhan Prasad, journalist, The Pioneer,

"Liberalization and Dalits"

Respondent: Sanjay Reddy, Economics, Barnard College

 

6:00 p.m. Reception