Bhangya Bhukya, Lecture on 'Colonialism, Nationalism and Adivasi Resistances in India'
Channel: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
Date: 2022-06-10

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
invites you to a lecture

Colonialism, Nationalism and Adivasi 
Resistances in India

by Bhangya Bhukya

Chair: Sanjukta Das Gupta

Friday, 13 May 2022, 4.30 pm IST
The lecture will be held on Zoom
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Meeting ID: 84434009937
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Adivasis were the first people to wage war against the British colonial expansion in India. Furthermore, their war continued through colonial rule, and even after the post-colonial period in a much more violent path. The question now is how do we see the continuum of these resistances. Particularly in the context of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations by the Indian government. If the anti-colonial resistances of Adivasis are nationalist, what are their post-colonial resistances? Are they anti-national? Or national in their own right? The other question to be raised in this lecture is can we see the colonial and post-colonial Adivasi resistances in the same lexicon. 

Bhangya Bhukya is Head of the Department of History, University of Hyderabad. He was a British Council Visiting Fellow at SOAS, London. He is a public intellectual involved in Adivasi and Dalit-Bahujan movements in India. His influential works includes The Roots of the Periphery, A History of the Gonds of Deccan India and Subjugated Nomads: The Lambadas under the Rule of the Nizam. 

Sanjukta Das Gupta is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Indian History, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.