Research Meeting Visiting Speaker: Naveena Naqvi

This Research Meeting features a presentation by visiting speaker Naveena Naqvi. Dr. Naqvi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a historian of early modern and modern South Asia. Her research interests span the Persianate world, history of political Islam, gender and sexuality, and Hindustani music. She is finishing her first book, which examines political imaginings and legal regimes crafted by autonomous Afghan soldiers, scholars, and scribes in early colonial North India. Her scholarly publications have appeared in several journals, including The Indian Economic and Social History Review and History and Theory.

Title: “Paracolonial Thought in Afghan North India 1774 – 1857”
Speaker: Naveena Naqvi, Department of Asian Studies, UBC
Date: November 19 
Time: 10 am – 11:30 am
Location: Buchanan Penthouse

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Abstract

The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have been understood as a moment in which "regional patriotisms" emerged out of their infancy, purportedly centered on the consolidation of communities around ethnic solidarity and, shared genealogies and histories of statehood. Challenging this view, I will make a case for the Afghan political community in north India as polyvocal, decentralized, and engaged in a continuous process of generating and sustaining normative ideals of civility.