Beginning with a conversation between Romila Thapar and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and concluding with a talk by Ravish Kumar, this conference saw multiple ideas of India being grappled with from various perspectives. Speakers included Krishna Kumar, Hari Vasudevan, Sudhanva Deshpande, Joy Pachuau, Ryan Lobo, T. Sananthanan (Sri Lanka) and Radhika Bordia among others.

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Contents

Opening Address

NAVEEN KISHORE

In Conversation

ROMILA THAPAR AND GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK

In Conversation

ROMILA THAPAR, ALOK MATHUR, AMITA PRASAD, TINA SERVAIA

In Conversation: History Textbooks and The Idea of India

KRISHNA KUMAR, HARI VASUDEVAN, SHIREEN MASWOOD, MANISH JAIN

THE UN-EQUIVALENCE OF VIOLENCE:The Communal Question in Janam’s Plays

SUDHANVA DESHPANDE (An Illustrated Talk)

How to Draw Histories? Art as Method

T. SANATHANAN

The Camera as Witness

JOY LK PACHUAU, RYAN LOBO

Biography as History

JERRY PINTO

India in the Ruins of the Present

VIJAY PRASHAD

Social Media and the Idea of India

RADHIKA BORDIA

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