[nyfoil-l] 4/4 talk: hindu nationalism in chhattisgarh

[Sekhar Ramakrishnan]

Southern Asian Institute
Columbia University in the City of New York
Spring 2005 Brown Bag Series

"The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in a Central Indian Tribal
Community"

By Dr. Peggy Froerer

Research Lecturer in Anthropology
School of Social Sciences and Law
Brunel University, UK

Monday, April 4, 2005
12:30pm - 2:00pm
1302 IAB
420 West 118th Street

Dr. Froerer's research focuses on globalization and nationalism. She
spent 2002-2003 in India carrying out research on schooling and the
inculcation of Hindu Nationalist ideology amongst primary school
children. Dr. Froerer completed her doctorate in 2002 at the London
School of Economics. Her dissertation was based on field research
conducted in a rural village in Chhattisgarh, central India, and
examined the processes by which Hindu Nationalism is being
inculcated in and imbibed by members of a rural Hindu/Christian
'tribal' community, and the way these processes contribute to the
transformation of local ethnic categories and facilitate ethnic
group conflict.

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