IIAS to deliberate upon Khap Panchayats
By Ravinder Makhaik on Sep 26th, 2010 and filed under Latest News
Shimla: To deliberate the issue of caste conflicts, dalit politics and
khap panchayats, starting on Monday, the Indian Institute of Advanced
Studies (IIAS) is organising a three day seminar.
The interdisciplinary seminar on 'Modernity and Changing Social Fabric
of Punjab and Haryana' intends to initiate discussion and deliberation
on pertinent contemporary issues related to society, economy and
polity of the two neighbouring states, said IIAS spokesman Ashok
Sharma.
About 40 scholars from Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Kharagpur,
Bhuvaneshwar, Delhi, Jodhpur and Germany are expected to take part in
the deliberations.
Issues like, marriage, izzat (honour) and khap panchayats; female
infanticide and foeticide; farmers' suicides and agrarian distress;
debates on migration and NRIs; modern diaspora; caste and dalit
politics and identity; gender, region and religion; sexuality and
queer articulations; modernity and urban space; media, popular music
and cinematic representations; regional and diaspora literature; folk
modernity and popular culture; Meos of Mewat and Punjabi Muslims of
Malerkotla; against modernity; globalisation and changing notions of
modernity; and paradoxical modernities would be debated upon at the
seminar, the spokesman said.
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