Human Rights Project and Human Rights Program Present
An Evening Discussion on Indigenous Struggles in India
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Olin Humanities, Room 102
Sponsored by Human Rights Project
The Human Rights Project invites you to join us for an evening discussion onIndigenous Struggles in India
with Professor Virginius Xaxa, Deputy Director and Professor of Sociology at the Tata Institute of Social Studies in Guwahati, Assam (North East India)
Professor Xaxa is, himself, from the Adivasi (indigenous or tribal) community and grew up in a worker family on a tea plantation in North East India. He is now widely recognized as India’s preeminent scholar on the status and conditions of Adivasi communities. Mischaracterized, marginalized and typically misunderstood, there are more than 100 million Adivasis in India, or 8% of the population. Professor Xaxa has devoted his professional career to the study of caste and tribe and India, publishing major works, including “State, Society and Tribes: Issues in Post-Colonial India” (2008) and “Tribes as Indigenous People of India”, the 1999 article which, as the New York Times noted, is “often cited as essential reading for an understanding of India’s tribal communities.”
Professor Xaxa will be joined in conversation by Ashwini Sukthankar, Acting Director, Global Campaigns, Unite-Here, and
Peter Rosenblum, Professor of Human Rights Law and Practice at Bard College.
Thursday, November 13 at 6:15 PM in OLIN 102
For more information, call 215-378-2767, e-mail [email protected],
or visit http://hrp.bard.edu/event/an-evening-discussion-on-indigenous-struggles-in-india/.
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102