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The Lives of Indian Democracy: History and Biography in Modern India
Seminar: January – May 2012
Ramachandra Guha & Sunil Khilnani
The King’s India Institute is pleased to announce an intensive, ten-session long seminar on ‘The Lives of Indian Democracy: History and Biography in Modern India’. The seminar will be co-directed by Professor Ramachandra Guha, currently holder of the Philippe Roman Chair at the LSE, and Professor Sunil Khilnani, Director of the King’s India Institute. It will explore the relationship biography and history, and in particular the potential of biography to illuminate wider social and political trends in modern India.
The individual sessions will analyse the lives of major pan-Indian political figures such as Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar, Jinnah, and Indira Gandhi; of major regional or dissenting leaders such as Sheikh Abdullah and A. Z. Phizo; influential activists and organizers such as Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Ela Bhatt; writers and public intellectuals such as Tagore, Mahasweta Devi, and Shivarama Karanth. The seminar will explore research methods, as in the kinds of sources most appropriate for different biographies; the integration into life writing of social science theories and approaches; and the role of ideology and partisanship.
Masters and Doctoral students in any university in the United Kingdom are invited to apply for the seminar. Applicant should state their academic background and experience, and outline their research interests and rationale for participation in the seminar. An initial planning session for the seminar will be held on the 1st of December at 5pm at the King’s India Institute meeting room, King’s College Strand Campus. At this meeting, a reading list and the details of the seminar structure will be circulated. The ten substantive sessions will begin in late January 2010 and will be held generally at fortnightly intervals, with the seminar ending in May 2012.
The broad object of the seminar is to introduce graduate students, who are scholars-and-book writers-in the making, to the rich and largely unexplored potentialities of biography in the writing of Indian history. Although this is a not-for-credit seminar, students will be encouraged to write papers for circulation and discussion.
For further details, and to submit applications to participate in the seminar, please contact:
Administrator
King’s India Institute
King’s College London
T: 020 7848 1432
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http://www.kcl.ac.uk/indianinstitute/LivesofIndianDemocracy
Dr Kriti Kapila
King's India Institute
King's College London
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