Martin Chautari Mangalbare Discussion Series (Tuesday, 3 pm) 1 April 2014/18 Chaitra 2070 Current Challenges for Adivasi Societies: Lessons from Jharkhand Dr. Kaushik Ghosh, Shiv Nadar University, India/University of Texas at Austin, USA Discussant: Dr. Janak Rai, Tribhuvan University Martin Chautari invites you to a Lecture by Dr. Kaushik Ghosh on Current Challenges for Adivasi Societies: Lessons from Jharkhand Martin Chautari Seminar Hall, Thapathali, 1 April 2014 (Tuesday), 3:00pm The general Jharkhand region allows us a long-term view of adivasi politics and cultural survival processes over a 200 year period. Industrialization, mass displacement, religious conversion, migration, popular struggles, organizational and electoral (parliamentary) politics as well as “territorial” sovereignty (in the form of some kind of statehood) – vital aspects of indigenous life in the space of modernity – have all been played out over these two centuries. With the formation of the Jharkhand state in 2000, based tacitly on some notion of adivasi regional identity, we have now over a decade of developments to think through what are the issues that have emerged as crucial to the adivasi question in the new millennia. I’ll discuss these in light of my fieldwork with the Koel-Karo movement in Jharkhand and my writings on adivasi life in general. The presentation should act as a launching pad for discussions on the question of indigeneity in Nepal, India, South Asia and beyond. * * * Kaushik Ghosh is a cultural anthropologist who combines interests in ecology, politics and the conduct of everyday life. He has conducted long-term fieldwork primarily in Jharkhand on adivasi struggles against dispossession, religion and migration. Having studied and taught at various international research institutions, as well as having lived in radically different spaces, he has a wide set of academic and extra-academic experiences, which he brings to his research, pedagogy and administrative approaches. As an anthropologist, he believes, the introduction of fieldwork and an ethnographic sensibility, along with a serious humanities education, will significantly help the University space to initiate new thinking, research and sensibilities. He particularly hopes that these will challenge the narrow domains of utilitarian and economic frameworks that have come to dominate the modern Indian intellectual climate. * * * Discussant: Dr. Janak Rai, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Martin Chautari, 27 Jeetjung Marg Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: +977-1-4102027/4238050 This is a public lecture and admission is free and open to all. Attached to this note are three articles by the speaker which form the basis of the presentation.
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