Kannada Language Chair
Centre of Indian Languages, SLL&CS, JNU
In association with
Kannada and Culture Department, Bangalore
Organizes Seminar on
Idea of Karnataka
Releasing the Biography of
Amirbai Karnataki and
Cultural programs
November 27, 2018 11 AM onwards
Convention Centre, audi-1, JNU
Participants
N R Vishukumar, Director, Bangalore
Sathish Deshpande, Delhi University
A R Vasavi, Bangalore
Gobind Prasad, JNU
Janaki Nayar, JNU
Nagesh Hegde, Bangalore
Vinaya Okkunda, Dharwad
Rahmat Tarikere, Hampi
Muzafar Asadi, Raichur
Nataraj Huliyar, Bangalore
Purushottama Bilimale, JNU
Vasantha Shetty Bellare, Delhi
Shrinivas G Kappanna, Bangalore
Guru Shubha Dhananjaya, Bangalore
All are invited
Theme of the seminar:
The main purpose of this seminar is to get some answers for - Is Karnataka given its long history of absorbing and incorporating religious, ethnic and linguistic differences, among the most uniquely poised of Indian states to provide some lessons for the future of the composite Indian nation? To begin with the region -- its cultural legacies, its social histories, its experiments in governance since at least the 18th century, and its institutional structures -- would be a more fruitful way of developing the tools for imagining a new world, and the political structures and forms that would enable a creative response to contemporary challenges. Rather than this being an exercise in yet again staking regional pride or primacy as a ‘development model’ , a critical look at aspects of Karnataka’s ‘worlds’, and the Kannada cosmos, particularly in the modern period, would include an assessment of how the region’s challenges, and even its conflictual pasts, have been met, managed or remained unanswered in the process of living together in a time of democracy.
The proposed one day seminar will be attended by the scholars of literature, history, economics, culture and politics, as well as cultural and social practitioners, who work and write in both Kannada and English, which could possibly lead to longer term collaborative projects and outcomes.