Home, Belonging & Identity: The Chinese Community in India

Date de début:

20 Avril 2015 - 18:00

Type d'événement:

Table ronde/débat

Publié ici :

01 Juillet 2015

Mis à jour le :

03 Septembre 2017

Mots-clefs:

Appartenance
Chine
Inde
Nostalgie
maison

Zone géographique:

Asie

The Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH) is delighted to invite you to a discussion

between Dr. Jayani Bonnerjee, Dr. Rita Chowdhury & Vidura Jang Bahadur

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Ideas of home encompass a broad range of concerns and emotions, particularly for a minority diaspora such as the Chinese community in India. Revolving around issues of belonging, citizenship and claims to a unique identity of its own, the notion of home also raises questions on how to represent and tell the story of this community.

This discussion will forge a conversation between existing academic, artistic and literary work on the Indian Chinese community to explore different modes of representation and narration focusing on the idea of home. Each presenter will reflect on their work on the community and the challenges associated with their respective modes of representation. The event will include oral history narratives, exhibition of photographs, clips from a documentary and book-reading.

Dr. Jayani Bonnerjee

Jayani is a cultural geographer, interested in postcolonial urbanism in South Asia and critical geographies of diaspora. She completed her PhD (Geography) from Queen Mary, University of London, focusing on Calcutta’s Chinese and Anglo-Indian communities. Her thesis engaged with everyday lived spaces of these two communities through a focus on ideas of home, identity, belonging, cosmopolitanism and nostalgia.

Dr. Rita Chowdhury

Dr. Rita Chowdhury is a well-known Assamese poet and novelist. She won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel Deo Langkhui (2005) (The Divine Sword). Her recent novel Makam (2010) creates history by being ten-edition-old within a year. Makam took up the story of the Assamese-Chinese, who were arrested, interned and deported by the Indian state during the 1962 Sino-Indian war – a momentous part of war strangely never touched by any scholar. Both these books are being translated into quite a few languages including English; Makam will be shortly published in English by Zubaan.

Rita is also senior lecturer in Political Science at Cotton College, Guwahati. She has previously participated actively in politics by joining the ASOM JATIYATABADI YUVA CHATRA PARISHAD (AJYCP), the torchbearer of the Assam Movement, at the age of eighteen. It was a crucial juncture in the transitional demographic and cultural history of Assam. As one of the women pioneers of this movement, she left home, reached each and every corner of Assam to organize the village folk despite many arrest warrants over her head. She was jailed thrice, twice in Guwahati, once in Dibrugarh jail at the age of 21.

Vidura Jang Bahadur

Born in 1975, in Lusaka, Zambia, Vidura Jang Bahadur studied at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and went on to receive his Master’s degree in Mass Communication from MCRC at Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi. Following his graduation, Vidura spent three years traveling in China, where he taught English, studied Chinese and explored telling stories using photography. Through his work, Bahadur tries to create a better understanding of communities and individuals. His recent projects include a series of photographs that focus on the Chinese community in India.

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