Native charity in colonial India: Taking care of poor Europeans
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In colonial India, the British were sojourners rather than settlers. They ruled over millions that were culturally, racially, and religiously distinctfrom Europeans. From the late eighteenth-century, after the establishment of colonial rule from 1757, the British began to segregate themselves, culturally, socially, and spatially, from their entanglements with native populations in the subcontinent. The colonial government consistently sought to keep the cost of governance to a minimum by for example, limiting its responsibility for the care of the millions they ruled over. Native charity and philanthropy were expected and encouraged to pay, wholly or in part, for the religious, medical, charitable, and educational infrastructure for natives. In contrast to this infrastructure for the native inhabitants of the subcontinent, how was a sojourner population expected to establish an infrastructure for Europeans? Who would take care of the European poor? This paper focuses on native charitable contributions for the benefit of Europeans in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in western India. It reveals that native charitable gifting practices contributed to the creation of a European religious and charitable infrastructure for what I call, in contrast to settler colonialism, sojourner colonialism.
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Preeti Chopra, Department of Art History University of Wisconsin-Madison and Visiting Professor, Centre for History, Sciences Po
Discussant: Florence Bernault, Centre for History, Sciences Po.
The presentation will be followed by a discussion.
24 June, 2022
10:30-12:00
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International doctoral contract M/F "Violence between war and peace in Central Europe" - CNRS
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Title: Violence between war and peace: agentivity and gender of intersecting processes between intimate and collective levels in Central Europe
The thesis will focus on the intersection of intimate and collective dimensions of discourses, practices and effects of violence. It will mobilize the study of the actors, especially from a gender perspective.
The framework chosen is Central Europe in the 19th and 21st centuries. Central Europe is understood here as the area between the Baltic, the Adriatic and the Black Sea. This region was and is marked by recurrent violence, both in peace and war, the difference being sometimes tenuous. Yet "brutalization" and "bloodlands", the two major paradigms used to shape retrospectively the way societies and individuals relate to violence by emphasizing the porositý between times of peace and times of war, neglect the strong gender dimension. These paradigms reduce the complexity of actions and actors. Yet this complexity and the rhythms, intensity, and nature of the phases of violence imply grasping the emotional and intellectual accumulations that clearly appear in times when violence reemerges, whether repression, private violence, or war. The same is true, conversely, for the distancing and the work of reparation or compensation associated with violence, both private and public. Thus, the victims of rape, during wars in particular, are often subsequently victims in their own society of family and social ostracism. The connections between sex and of politics are key when considering the porosity of times, between peace and war. It is therefore possible to question the way in which war crimes trials can contribute to reactivating and/or distancing violence as a political horizon, and participate in the gendered reconstruction of societies after the war, or even decades later.
This proposal for a thesis topic is presented by a specialist in the history of security in Central Europe and a specialist in gender and violence in relation to wars. It is therefore widely open to any approach with a historical dimension (not exclusive of others).
21 June | Awarding Ceremony of the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to Elena Zhemkova
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Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, Chairperson of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques and Mathias Vicherat, President of Sciences Po, are pleased to invite you to the awarding ceremony of the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of Sciences Po to Elena Zhemkova, Executive Director of Memorial International.
Through Elena Zhemkova, it is the entire Memorial organisation that Sciences Po wants to honour.
The Laudation will be pronounced by Sabine Dullin, Professor of Modern History of Russia, Head of the Department of History
Water, Power, Politics
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"Water, Power, Politics", le nouveau numéro de la revue italienne Contemporanea. Rivista di Storia dell'800 e del 900 codirigé par Giacomo Parrinello et Simone Neri Serneri.
Giacomo Parrinello, Simone Neri Serneri, Water, Power, Politics: Introduction, in "Contemporanea, Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900" 2/2022, pp. 171-184, doi: 10.1409/103861
Giacomo Parrinello, Simone Neri Serneri, Debjani Bhattacharyya, Ruth A. Morgan, Corey Ross, David Pietz, Matthew Evenden, Rethinking the Entangled History of Water and Power, in "Contemporanea, Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900" 2/2022, pp. 319-344, doi: 10.1409/103867
