New School, New York City, 80 Fifth Avenue, Fifth Floor, Room 529 Monday, November 2 @ 6pm

DURBA GHOSH, Associate Professor of History at Cornell University and author of “Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of the Empire” (Cambridge 2006), will discuss the relationship between political dissent, violence and repression before and after India’s independence. During late-colonial India, legal and legislative maneuvers produced repressive laws, notably those authorizing the detention of revolutionaries, communists, and other anti-colonial dissidents. These laws laid the foundations for the repression of political dissent in the post-colonial period as well. Professor Ghosh's presentation is part of a broader study on violence and political movements in twentieth century India.