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Another India: Living Cosmologies and the Practice of Social Science (with author Chandan Gowda)
October 16 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Date: Wednesday, October 16th
Time: 4 pm
Location: Jenkins 102
Join us for a talk by Chandan Gowda of the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru about his new book Another India: Events, Memories, People, with comments by JHU anthropology professor Anand Pandian.
About the book. Another India summons cosmological fragments which have a living narrative and moral presence in the present but are readily evacuated by social science. This talk elaborates this strange and tragic predicament through illustrations from the worlds of Kannada culture. Aligning scholarly conversations with living cosmologies is to engage the narrative and philosophical achievements of communities that continue to flow in the present. Such an intellectual practice helps overcome the analytical limitations introduced by the binaries of secular-religious and modernity-tradition and opens up new sources of research creativity. They also help create a more participative conversational space and democratize intellectual activity.
About the author. Chandan Gowda is Ramakrishna Hegde Chair Professor of Decentralization and Development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. Apart from his recent book, Another India: Events, Memories, People, he has edited Theatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvanathan (2016), The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader (2018) which later saw Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil translations, and A Life in the World (2019), a book of autobiographical interviews he did with UR Ananthamurthy. He has translated Kannada fiction and non fiction into English, including UR Ananthamurthy’s novella Bara (2016). His book on the origins of development thought in colonial India with a focus on Mysore state will be published soon. At present, he is editing and co-translating Daredevil Mustafa, a collection of short stories by Purnachandra Tejasvi and co-editing The Rammanohar Lohia Reader. He is a columnist with Deccan Herald.