Department of English Literature
The English and Foreign languages University, Hyderabad
Invites you
To
A Talk
By
Gyanendra Pandey
On
Unarchived Histories: the ‘Mad’ and the ‘Trifling’
Ground Floor, Room no. 1 Academic Block, 6 PM, FEBRUARY 4 |
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Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, and Director, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Workshop, Department of History Emory University, Atlanta, USA. A founding member and leading theorist of the Subaltern Studies project, he has written extensively on marginality and citizenship, violence and history. He has published extensively on questions of violence, nationalism, marginality and citizenship, as well as on the history of history-writing. Among the best known of his single-authored books are 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). He has recently completed an ambitious history of the African American and Dalit struggles, now in production with Cambridge University Press under the title, A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste and Difference in India and the USA; and is currently working on a study of the autobiographical writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker and Viola Andrews.