Event

National Seminar at Delhi University

On 15th August, 2022, India entered its 75th year of ‘political’ independence, commemorating a journey of resilient struggle by Indians to achieve independence and sovereignty of land. The dominant popular narrative of the freedom struggle is structured around the life and times of well-known leaders and their aspirations, which is claimed to be representing those of the entire people of India. The representation and narration of popular history was based on the biases of the historiographer. It favoured the ones who had a hegemony over the social, economic, and political spheres of Indian society. The already marginalized community such as Dalit, tribes, woman and religious minorities found little to no place among the literati of the nation, left to bear the brunt of being ignored and not visible. Thus, due to historiographic invisibility, the resistances of marginalized communities failed to feature on our history books and popular narratives on India’s struggle for freedom. The Seminar was scheduled in collaboration with  Department of Political Science, Shyama Prasad Mukherji College, Sociology Department, Institute of Lifelong Learning, University of Delhi.
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