WHO WRITES THE HISTORY OF AN AGE?
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. 2000
Where: Gates Info Sciences Bldg, Rm 104, Stanford University
Directions: http://www.stanford.edu/home/maps/stanford_zoom_map.html?193,199
Parking: Free on weekends, Across the road from the bldg
Sponsors: Stanford India Association (http://www.stanford.edu/group/sia/main.html)
Association for India's Development (Bay Area Chapter) (http://www.aidindia.org)
Graduate Student Council, Stanford University (http://gsc.stanford.edu/index.htm)
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.
