Description:
The Hartley Library, which houses the Mountbatten papers, in conjunction
with the Centre for the Study of Britain and its Empire at the University
of Southampton seeks paper proposals for a conference entitled, "The
Independence of India and Pakistan: Sixtieth Anniversary Reflections."
The conference will be held at the Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
on 17-20 July 2007. The event will be divided into panel discussion
and keynote plenary lectures. Papers will be of 30 minutes duration
followed by question. The following people have already agreed to participate:
Gyanendra Pandey, Urvashi Butalia, Gurharpal Singh, Akbar S. Ahmed,
Joya Chatterji, Victoria Schofield, Sten Widmalm and Sikandar Hayat.
Proposals for panel papers will be especially welcome in the following
areas:
- The "high politics" of the British departure from India
- The "history from beneath" of the British departure from
India
- Historiography, historical discourses and memory
- Independence and partition in film and literature
- Region, locality and partition
- The legacies of 1947 for nation building and state construction in
India and Pakistan
- Diasporic narratives on 1947
Proposals including a working title and 250 word abstract should be
sent by 1 June 2006 to the address below. The full
line-up of papers will be confirmed by 1 October 2006. Full length papers
will be required by 1 May 2007. It is anticipated that only limited
funds will be available to cover the costs of paper givers from the
subcontinent.
Contact Information:
Ian A. Talbot
Professor of History
University of Southampton
iat@soton.ac.uk
