Lecture: Leela Gandhi "Inconsequence: Some Little Known Mutinies Around 1946"

Leela Gandhi, Professor of English and member of the Committee of Southern Asian Cultures and Societies at the University of Chicago, is a leading postcolonial critic and theorist whose work extends the anticolonial intellectual legacies of her great grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi. In this talk, Gandhi will discuss the outbreak of anti-imperial global mutinies in the demobilization era, with a particular focus on the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946. Sponsored by the BU Center for the Study of Asia, the Society, Politics & Culture Workshop of the Sociology Department, and India Initiatives BU Global Programs.

When 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm on Thursday, April 3, 2014
Building CAS
Room 222
Contact Name Julian Go
Phone 617-358-0638
Contact Email juliango@bu.edu
Contact Organization Sociology
Fees Free
Speakers Leela Gandhi