The Center for Asian Studies presents

"Kannada 'Language' Politics and the Future of Bangalore"
with Chandan Gowda, Professor, Azim Premji University, Bangalore

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
12:00 p.m.
Krieger Hall, Room 300 

This talk will reconstruct the initial phase of activism around Kannada and compare it with the contemporary phase seen in Bangalore, which has acquired new interlocutors with differing aspirations amidst a vastly changed linguistic milieu.  What are the possible consequences for the imaginations of community and democracy in Bangalore? The rest of the talk will address this question.

For further information, please contact Vinayak Chaturvedi, vinayak@uci.edu.