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CSSS is organizing a talk by Dr. Javed Iqbal Wani

CSSS is organizing a talk by Dr. Javed Iqbal Wani

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Centre for the Study of Social Systems

School of Social Sciences

 

CSSS Colloquium

 

Javed Iqbal Wani

 (Asstt. Prof, Ambedkar University-Delhi)

Will be presenting a paper on

 

Arming ‘Reliable’ Citizens and Subcontracting Sovereign Violence in India

 

Date & Time:

January 24, 2019 (Thursday), 11am

Venue:

CSSS Committee Room (No: 13), SSS-II

 

Abstract: In the year 1948, the Police Reorganising Committee in the United Provinces (UP) resolved to introduce a policy to arm ‘reliable’ citizens across villages to counter the threat of dacoits. Such a move was started in a few districts initially but was proposed to be extended to all districts of the United Provinces later. It created numerous challenges for the administration though. By discussing the bureaucratic discussion that argued for such a policy, the paper will argue that the postcolonial state was anxious about maintaining ‘pubic order’. The policy of issuing guns to reliable villagers outsourced sovereign violence to private individuals and led to the establishment of a state sponsored vigilantism in the United Provinces.

Bio: Javed Iqbal Wani is assistant professor (Law & Legal Studies) at the School of Law, Governance and Citizenship at Ambedkar University Delhi. He completed his doctorate from Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

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