Title: Decolonisation and its Discontents: Naga Claims-Making and Indian State-Making, 1944-1960
Bio:
Lydia Walker is a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is a historian and researcher of decolonization and the Cold War. Her work focuses on post-1945 political transformation, the role of non-state actors in international relations, religiously infused nationalisms and activisms, as well as definitions of national sovereignty. Her recent scholarship has been published in The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Past & Present, The Washington Post, and Scroll.in. She holds a BA (Columbia University), MA and PhD (Harvard University) in History.
Abstract:
After the Second World War, countries across the colonial world achieved independence from European and Japanese imperial rule. Empire had built a quilt of enclaves and entrepôts, excluded areas and autonomous regions, diaspora populations and special jurisdictions. How did these peoples and aspirational polities claim forms of recognition when new postcolonial state governments worked to subsume them in their own state-making projects? Through the example of Nagas in India’s Northeast, this lecture considers the relationship between minority political claimant and new postcolonial state government as determinative rather than marginal to the process of global decolonization.
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Time: 9:AM
Date: 7th December 2019
Venue: Tetso College