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The Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures is pleased to welcome Dr. Sayan Chattopadhyay, who will stay until September 2022 at the SAI. Dr. Sayan Chattopadhyay is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He received his doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge in 2014. He was the recipient of the 2010–2013 Smuts Cambridge International Scholarship and was the Baden Württemberg visiting fellow at the SAI in 2017. His research has been primarily in the area of Indian Writing in English, Postcolonial Studies or Literature of Colonial Bengal. He is the author of the book “Being English: Indian Middle Class and the Desire for Anglicization” (Routledge, 2022). During his stay in Heidelberg, Chattopadhyay will be teaching courses on Indian English fiction, poetry, and autobiography. He will also be conducting research on the engagement of the colonial Indian middle class with the theme of boredom.
Speaker: Dr. Sanjib Baruah (Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York)
Welcome: Prof. Dr. Hans Harder (South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University)
Sanjib Baruah is Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, New York and Honorary Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He is the author of In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast (Stanford University Press, 2020). He serves on the editorial board of the journal Studies in Indian Politics (Sage Publications) and the book series ‘South Asia in Motion’ (Stanford University Press). He is a regular contributor to the newspaper Indian Express.
‘Eastern Bengal and Assam’ was a province of British colonial India. ‘Eastern Bengal and Assam’ existed as a province for a short time, from 1905 to 1911. But the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh was a part of the province of Assam for much longer - from 1874 to 1947. This territorial history is a reminder of the intertwined histories of this transnational space. Such a spatial frame is useful to understand the fraught politics of citizenship in Assam and the rest of Northeast India. The partition of 1947 and the civil war that led to the independence of Bangladesh in 1971 are key moments in this history because of their effects on migration flows and on the politics of belonging.
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