Communalism and rewriting of Indian history

[Raveen Satkurunathan]

COMMUNALISM AND THE REWRITING OF INDIAN HISTORY

How do politics of today color the lenses through which we examine the
past?  Are the dominant communal forces in India rewriting the
country's history to create new 'enemies'? Or are they merely correcting
errors of previous historians?

Please join us in a discussion with the eminent historian
  Prof. K.N. PANIKKAR
     Centre for Historical Studies
        Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Topic:   OUTSIDER AS ENEMY--The Politics of Rewriting History
  (http://www.stanford.edu/group/sia/Events/Panikkar.html)

When:  Sept 9th, Saturday  6:00 p.m.
Where:   Gates Info Sciences Bldg, Rm 104
  Stanford University

Prof.Panikkar will address the relationship of history to issues of
power,politics and censorship in the context of the recent controversy
involving the withdrawal of two volumes on modern history by the Indian
Council of Historical Research (ICHR).

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About the Speaker:

Prof. K. N. Panikkar teaches at the Centre for Historical Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is the Chairman of the Archives on
Contemporary History and formerly the Dean of the School of Social
Sciences, JNU. He is associated with several universities and
institutions in India and abroad. He has been the President of the Modern
History Section of the Indian History Congress and a member of the Indian
Council for Social Science Research and the Indian Council for Historical
Research. He has also been a member of several academic and research
organisations and a visiting professor to universities abroad.

Prof. Panikkar's main area of current research is intellectual-cultural
history of modern Indian on which he has written extensively. His
publications include, Culture, Ideology and Hegemony--Intellectuals and
Social Consciousness in Colonial India; Culture and Consciousness in
Modern India; Against Lord and State--Religion and Peasant Uprisings in
Malabar; Communal Threat, Secular Challenge  and British Diplomacy in
North India. Among the books he has edited the latest is "The Concerned
Indian's Guide to Communalism."

Regards
Raveen