TINDAS International Workshop: Religion, Nation, and State in Modern India
Date: 27th, March, 2019
Venue: Building 18, Collaboration Room 3 (4th floor) in Komaba Campus, the University of Tokyo
The issues of religion have always been in the news in modern India. The policies of the state toward religion and religious minorities often changed with the rise of new ruling powers, which presented their own ideas of the nation and tried to reconstruct state institutions accordingly. Such changes were accompanied by active public debates and social and political movements by various groups of people.
This workshop attempts to examine how religious issues have been discussed and articulated by the state and by different social groups in India. By focusing on several different moments in the colonial and postcolonial periods, it aims to deepen our understanding of changes as well as continuity in the ideas of religion, nation, and state in modern India from a long-term perspective.
Program
10:00-11:45 Opening Remarks
Fumiko Nishizaki (University of Tokyo)
Riho Isaka (University of Tokyo)
Session 1 Chair: Takashi Miyamoto (University of Tokyo)
Kana Tomizawa (University of Shizuoka)
The Usage of “Spirituality” and “Secularism” in Modern India
Kyosuke Adachi (University of Tokyo)
Depicting the Divide: A Study on Rawalpindi Riot, March 1947
Discussant: Megha Wadhwa (Sophia University)
11:45-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Session 2 Chair: Emiko Nozawa (University of Tokyo)
Ji-Eun Lee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Hindu Rashtra, Republic of India, and ‘Dalitstan’
Mari Miyamoto (Keio University)
Politics of Cow and Saughterhouse in Northeast India and the Himalayas
Discussant: Rohan D’Souza (Kyoto University)
14:30-14:45 Tea Break
14:45-16:00 Session 3 Chair: Taro Tsurumi (University of Tokyo)
Yulia Egorova (Durham University)
Minorities and the Tropes of Jewish/Muslim Difference
Discussant: Riho Isaka (University of Tokyo)
16:00-16:15 Tea Break
16:15-17:00 General Discussion Chair: Chihiro Koiso (Kanazawa Seiryo University)
Closing Remarks Akio Tanabe (University of Tokyo)
Language: English
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