CFP: Two-Day International Seminar on Mirroring Change: Literature and Social Transformation 3rd & 4th October 2024 ~ Pondicherry University

The Department of English at Pondicherry University has been an important educational destination for research scholars and students, ever since it commenced functioning in 1986. Over the years, the department has produced innumerable PhD and M. Phil scholars, in addition to a large number of postgraduate students. The faculty of the department with their different specializations and academic interests are at the forefront of innovative teaching and advanced research varying from contemporary literary, cultural and language studies to theoretical explorations. The department also runs a Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Communication in English, an add-on program, in much demand among students and employees.

Furthermore, the department has also sought to enhance the language and communication skills of students from across the University through Functional

English and other communication-oriented courses. Another hallmark of the department is the Research and Cultural Forum (RCF) which acts as an avenue for scholars and students to showcase their research work and creative abilities. The department has also been at the forefront of organizing seminars, workshops and faculty development programs.

 

 

 

 

About Research and Cultural Forum (RCF):

Conceived thirty-five years ago as Research and Journal Alert Forum (RJAF) at the Department of English, Pondicherry University, RCF is a platform for research scholars and students of the department to discuss their research findings in various areas related to literature and culture and also present their creative talents. Run exclusively by the research scholars of the department, under the guidance of the faculty members and the support of MA students the forum hosts invited talks, workshops and interactive sessions by experts of national and international repute in the emerging areas of English Studies. The forum was recently renamed Research and Cultural Forum to integrate the department's research and cultural outputs. Now, it proudly undertakes the mission of bringing together and highlighting the role of literature in social transformation through this two-day International Seminar.

 

About the Seminar:

 A Two-Day International Seminar has been planned by the Department of English on the 3rd & 4th of October 2024, with the focus area “Mirroring Change: Literature and Social Transformation”.

 Theme:

 Literature has been able to predict, analyze, and critique social, economic and political change for a long time. This, in turn, has contributed to understanding social and political transformation through a medium that has been conventionally seen to be largely imaginative and fictional. While Orwell’s cautionary tale, 1984 predicted the effects of totalitarian regimes and surveillance, Harriet Beecher’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin “helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War” (Kaufman, 2006: 18). If Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath brought into full view the travails of America during the Great Depression, Munshi Premchand’s Godaan brutally exposed poverty and the evils of the zamindari system in India. Literature has thus been constantly in sync with the changing silhouettes of society.

 The conference aims to explore how literature has closely interacted with and mirrored the intricate matrix of the social and political milieu. This interaction has resulted in innumerable texts that have reflected these significant changes and helped us understand an ever-changing world. The wide gamut of social, political, economic, cultural, sociological and anthropological change has prompted the writer to ask questions, show up the mirror and sometimes even offer prescriptions for ills, thus making literature a vehicle for social transformation.  The conference aims to investigate and explore the significant role that literature has played in reflecting these changes, therefore acting as truth-seeker, sentinel, chronicler, and critic, all rolled into one.   

 The conference aims to explore the interchange between literature and social transformation across varied arenas and can include, but is not restricted, to the following areas:

•           Political upheaval and social movements

•           Caste, class and hierarchy

•           Reigns, regimes and democracy

•           Marxism and literature

•           Changing dimensions of gender

•           Queer narratives

•           Geographies, borders and migration

•           Indigenous literatures

•           Anthropocene, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism 

•           Dalit literature and social justice

•           Technology and literature

•           Popular culture and subcultures

•           Medical imperialism and illness narratives

  Registration Fee:

 Faculty Members:      Rs. 2000

Research Scholars:     Rs. 1000

PG Students:               Rs. 500

Co-authors are required to pay individually.

 UG students (participation only): Rs 200

 Abstracts:

 Abstracts can be uploaded through the Google form link

below on or before 30th August 2024.

 Registration Link: https://forms.gle/CA78DHY86yfQtzhW9

 Your queries may be addressed to rcfseminar2024@gmail.com

 Important Dates:

 Last date for sending abstracts: 30th August 2024

Confirmation of acceptance will be communicated by: 2nd September 2024

Complete papers are to be sent by: 27th September 2024 

 Address for Communication:

 Drishya K.

Steward  C.        

Research Scholars                                                     

Department of English                                              

Pondicherry University                                             

Puducherry-605014                                                   

8589825788, 8270410154                                  

Call For Papers: Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism -- Call for Papers for Vol. 3,

 Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.

By placing creative expressions at the center of a wide range of contemporary and historical intercultural relationships, the journal explores forms of belonging and spaces of difference and dissidence that challenge both universalist and exclusionary paradigms.

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is hosted by Georgetown University, Washington D.C., and is co-supported by the “Plurielles” Research Group, Bordeaux Montaigne University, France. Its founders and editors-in-chief are Prof. Didier Coste (Bordeaux Montaigne U.), Dr. Christina Kkona (Bordeaux Montaigne U.), and Prof. Nicoletta Pireddu (Georgetown U.).

Each journal issue includes 5-7 scholarly articles (6000-8000 words each) and several book reviews (1000 words each) and/or review essays (3000 words each).  

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism invites submissions for Volume 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2025)

It welcomes original and theoretically insightful contributions to cultural cosmopolitanism in connection with the following disciplinary domains and methodological approaches (but not exclusively):

Anthropology; Border studies; Cultural historiography; Cultural sociology; Ecocriticism and environmental studies; Exile, migration, and diaspora studies; Feminism, gender, sexuality, queer and transgender studies; Film and media studies; Global South studies; Mediterranean studies; Nativism and indigeneity; Oceanic and island studies; Performance studies; Philosophy; Poetics and aesthetics; Politics and cosmopolitics; Race and ethnic studies; Transatlantic studies; Translation studies; Transnational and global studies; Visual arts; World literature.

Prospective authors wishing to discuss proposals for articles, book reviews, or review articles can contact the Editors-in-chief at migratingminds@georgetown.edu by October 31, 2024.

Full-text articles and reviews should be submitted by February 28, 2025 through the designated online form.

Migrating Minds only accepts unpublished manuscripts that are not under consideration elsewhere. Books proposed for reviews should have been published no earlier than 2023.

Migrating Minds also welcomes articles on a rolling basis and proposals for special issues or sections. Please contact the Editors-in-chief for further discussion.

Migrating Minds articles are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, Google Scholar, and WorldCat.

 

 

 

 

Contact Information

Nicoletta Pireddu, Didier Coste, Christina Kkona, co-Founders and co-Editors in Chief

Contact Email

migratingminds@georgetown.edu

URL

https://migratingminds.georgetown.edu

Attachments

migrating-minds-call-papers-vol3-issue-2-fall-2025.docx

CFP: International Conference on #Bengal and its Neighbors: From Early Modern to Contemporary South Asia -Oct 2024.

 The aim of this panel is to initiate a broader dialogue with regards to the Bengal region, as it evolved from the early modern era — then, a region being ruled a motley of Sultanates with periodic eruption of Mughal expeditions against the independent Sultans — to an important resource extraction zone during the colonial era. Eventually, the region evolved into a contested terrain during the anti-colonial movement in the Twentieth Century that pitted two distinct nationalist projects against one another, as the post-colonial future of the region’s heterogeneous ethnic, linguistic and religious communities were being decided. Fast forward to the Partition, Bengal’s religious fault-lines became exposed, as the Muslim majority regions became part of Pakistan, while the Hindu dominated Western regions became part of India. 

However, this flared up communal fragmentation does not fully encapsulate the efforts undertaken by political forces, including the left-leaning ones, to oppose communalism’s impact on the widening gap between Hindus and Muslims. Interestingly, an echo of this anti-communal nation-building imperative can be traced in the movement leading up to the creation of Bangladesh, and, subsequently, the inscribing of the principles of nationalism, socialism, democracy, and secularism in its founding constitution draw up in 1972 following its break-up from Pakistan in 1971. The country experiences coups and countercoups in the late 1970s and early 1980s that had shacked its attempt to build a new society out of the ruins of Partition. 

Moreover, the wider Bengal region has experienced further tensions due to the acceleration of the climate crisis, onset of neoliberal globalization, and new forms of social divides along caste, class, ethnicity, and religious lines in the recent years. Therefore, it would be more than useful to interrogate the region from a broad historical perspective so that dialogues can be initiated to understand the wider implications of today’s crises as well as the traces of the past in the Bengal region’s turbulent present. 

With an aim to investigating the various traditions of resistance, in literary writing, oral and public culture, plastic and visual arts, to dominant ideologies of nation, class, religion, and gender, the esteemed panelists seek to engage with the following questions in order to understand the complex changes in the region from a broader perspective: 

• How can we address the influences of various cultural forces — Arab, Persian, Indic, and European — in a primarily agrarian region?
• How can we reconceptualize the major changes that occurred in the region as it transitioned from the colonial era to the postcolonial present? What are some of the major outcomes of this transition including the Permanent Settlement, the Bengal famine of 1943 and the creation of the successor three nation-states of British India impacted the region? 
• How is the region shaped by political changes such as the solidification of Hindu nationalism in India, the India-China rivalry to extend regional influence, as well as the ethnic tensions in the bordering countries such as Myanmar? 
• How can the region’s longue durée shifts be addressed from an interdisciplinary angle? What are the stakes of bringing scholars together who explore the Bengal and its neighboring region from a range of disciplinary angles including anthropology, history, literature and religion among others?      

Contact Information

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words and a brief bio to the organizers, Auritro Majumder, Assistant Professor of English, University of Houston, amajumder@uh.edu &  Asif Iqbal, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Oberlin College, aiqbal@oberlin.edu by 30 March, 2024. 

Contact Email: aiqbal@oberlin.edu

CFP: International Conference on Belonging/Unbelonging: #Religion, #Gender and ‘Everyday’ #Politics in South Asia- Feb 2024- Mahatma Gandhi University

The intersection of religion, individuation and belongingness is a complex and multidimensional issue that has spawned many interesting academic debates recently. These debates, in general, have centred or problematised the continuous relevance and political force of religion in the face of modernity and rationality and the post-secular reformulation of their basic presumptions. The issue is more expressive and pertinent in the current attempts of scrutinising the intimate connections and contradictions in presupposing Submission and Agency, Sacred and Profane, Private and Public. Recent scholarship has focused on interactions between religion and political institutions, the vast repertoire of religious traditions and practices, and the distinctiveness of sacred belongings from other forms of belonging. There is also an emerging emphasis on the ‘everyday’ and religion and its reflection on articulations of believing, behaving, and belonging. Especially with a phenomenological turn in the study of religion, the religious texts, symbols and practices, therefore, are not understood independently of their social extensions. This development is crucial to studying the interface between the region and gender. The continuous acknowledgement of patriarchy in feminist scholarship has given rise to a gender perspective that has a nuanced understanding of belonging and un-belonging. Another site where gender meets religion is protests of various sorts by women’s movements in South Asia for claiming citizenry rights and social and political spaces (Sabarimala Issue, Nuns fight against sexual harassment, multiple debates and contexts around Hijab in Iran, France and Karnataka, women’s gathering in Shaheen Bagh against CAA etc.). It is in this context the School of Gender Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, in collaboration with the Centre for Cross-national Communication in South Asia, Mahatma Gandhi University is organising a two-day national seminar with a particular focus on the theme Belonging/Unbelonging: Religion, Gender and Everyday Politics in South Asia.

Major Sub Themes-1

SUB THEMES:

• Everyday Politics and Embodied Religiosity 
• Religious Diversity and Pluralism 
• Religion, State, and Governance Faith, Youth and Change
• Religion and Visuality in South Asia 
• Religion and Ecology in South Asia 
• Religion, Speech and Expression 
• Marketing of the Sacred and Spiritual 
• Migration, Religion, and Reformation 

Major Sub Themes-2

SUB THEMES 

• Religious Texts and Gender
• Religion, Gender and Activism
• Religion, Gender and Family 
• Religion, Body and Social Space 
• Gendered Mobilities and Immobilities in Religion 
• Belonging in Religion 
• Protesting Unbelongings 
• Religion, Gender and Disability Religion,
• Gender and New Media Religion, 
• Gender and Performance 
• Religious Polarization and Gender

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Important Dates:

 Abstract submission deadline: 26 JANUARY  

Acceptance notification FEBRUARY 1

Registration date FEBRUARY 1- 10 

Full paper submission FEBRUARY  15  

Conference date : FEBRUARY 28, 29

Submission link: https: //forms.gle/wzZfCp8QGP2yrJ4P8

Contact: conference2024onreligion@gmail.com 

CFP:MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND MULTILINGUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENDER AND DISPLACEMENT (HYBRID MODE) , 28 MARCH 2024. Jain Unviersity CDO

 About JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) About Center for Distance & Online Education (CDOE) About the Conference Established in 1990, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Bengaluru, was declared Deemed-to-be University u/s of the UGC Act 1956 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Union Government in July 2009. The University has reached unprecedented heights in the field of education. 

Ranked among the top universities in India and considered a cerebral destination for students across the world, the University offers a conducive environment for learning, be it academics or extra-curricular activities. Known for its emphasis on education, entrepreneurship, research and sports, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) has some of the best minds in the educational and research fields, and canters that inspire entrepreneurship and ground-breaking ‘work to simplify and manage life better. What makes JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) different is its outlook towards life, its values and beliefs. It's ever-evolving open-minded system, quest for continued success and resilience have made it one of the top universities in India. The University has been accredited with A++ with a cumulative grade point of 3.71 in the year 2021 by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and is ranked 68th nationally in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), Government of India in 2023 and 5th among the top private universities in India by the India ‘Today Magazine. The University is also an ISO: 8001: 2015 Certified for Quality Management by TUV Nord. With an unwavering commitment to academic excellence, the University fosters an environment that encourages innovation, creativity and critical thinking. It plays a vital role in shaping a brighter future for both individuals and the society as a whole. Recently, the University has been conferred with ‘Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar’ under the category of ‘Identification and Nurturing of Budding/Young Talent’ by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, GoI for the year 2023. 

The Center for Distance and Online Education helps an individual achieve higher levels of efficiency and stimulates innovative skills allowing for a fulfilling work-life and study balance. It aims to foster remote learning for meaningful progress on the professional front and drives career opportunities massively through flexible and practice-oriented study. The 'Gender and Displacement' conference is a crucial interdisciplinary forum addressing the complex relationship between gender dynamics and the impact of displacement. It explores economic repercussions, scientific insights into environmental and health factors, and the commercial aspects of displacement. 

The conference also examines literary works to interpret human experiences. By fostering dialogue across disciplines, it aims to contribute to a holistic understanding of gender-specific impacts, informing policies and interventions for individuals forging new identities due to calamities or life choices. Participants are encouraged to explore sub-themes beyond the ones listed here. Papers can be presented in English/ Kannada/ Hindi, but full length papers for publication have to be submitted only in English. Gender sensitization, at the core, involves fostering awareness for understanding gender justice and equality, promoting acceptance and behavioral change, and instilling empathy towards all genders. 

The Gender Sensitization Cell (Genesis) at CDOE, Jain University, strives to advance a world free of discrimination. Its objectives are to be a part of a movement where we are responsible for our own thoughts and actions-each time, every time. Its agenda is to cultivate a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and humanitarian society. The initiative focuses on personal responsibility, aiming to raise awareness about prejudices and dismantle them in various spheres. The ultimate goal is to contribute to a stronger community where all genders are treated equally, driven by the collective effort to break biases and foster inclusivity. We hope to actively work for a stronger community where all genders are treated equally. We are sure that- Together, we all can break the bias.

 About Genesis 

The Center for Distance and Online Education, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) provides academic prospects to all eligible and willing individuals who face obstacles of time and place. With access to quality education and the flexibility of online learning, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) gives students an extra boost through its undergraduate and postgraduate programs which are designed to meet the industry's needs. Sub-themes:

 Conference Objectives Challenge and break down gender barriers and stereotypes in both everyday and crisis situations. Examine the multifaceted gender roles during displacement, acknowledging individuals as fighters, workers, volunteers, and survivors. Recognize all genders as agents for positive change and stability in conflict-affected areas, contributing to the cohesion of families, communities, and countries. Create awareness regarding the imperative inclusion of all genders in displacement and policy implementation. Advocate for the incorporation of a gender perspective in the resolution of both natural and man-made conflicts. Strive for the integration of all genders as a driving force for progress, harmony, and resilience in societies grappling with displacement and conflict. Prioritize the speedy and comprehensive addressing of gender-related issues in conflict areas to ensure prompt and effective solutions. 

Gender Dynamics in Displacement:

 Understanding the Specific Challenges and Coping Strategies Narratives of Exile, Refuge, and Displacement: 

A Gendered Perspective from Classical to Contemporary Times Generational Trauma through a Gender Lens: 

Analyzing the Impact on Subsequent Generations in Displacement Contexts Gendered Experiences in Literary and Audio/Visual Narratives of Displacement Rehabilitating Families, Communities, and Countries:

 A Gender-Responsive Approach to Displacement Recovery 

ಜನಾಂಗಿಕ ನಿರಾಶ್ರಿತರ ಸ್ಥಳಾಂತರಗಳು : 

ಕಾರಣಗಳು , ಪರಿಣಾಮಗಳು ಡಯಾಸ್ಪೋರಾ :

 ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಜನಸಮುದಾಯಗಳು ವಲಸೆ ಜಾಗತಿಕ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ವಲಸೆ, ಗಡಿಪಾರು ಮತ್ತು ಹಿಂಸಾತ್ಮಕ ಸ್ಥಳಾಂತರ 

रो ज़मर्रा और संकसं ट दो नों स्थि ति यों में लैंगिलैंगिक बा धा ओं और रूढ़ि यों की चुनौचुनौती ।

 वि स्था पन और नी ति कार्या न्र्यावयन में सभी लिं गों को अनि वा र्य रूप से शा मि ल करने के बा रे में जा गरूकता ।

 प्राकृतिक और मानव निर्मित दो नों संघसं र्षों के समा धा न में लैंगिलैंगिक परि प्रेक्ष्प्रेय को शा मि ल करने की वका लत । त्वरि त और प्रभा वी समा धा न सुनिसुनिश्चि त करने के लि ए संघसं र्ष क्षेत्रोंक्षे त्रों में लिं ग-संबंसं धीबं धी मुद्दोंमुद्दों की प्रा थमि कता । 

Physiological Abuses and Consequences (rape/molestation/other forms of violence) 

Psycho-social Dynamics of Resilience(Analyzing how interpersonal relationships and community support foster psychological resilience) 

Trauma-Reasons, Repercussion, Awareness & Counselling) 

Exploring sustainable approaches to cope and rehabilitate Gender Pay Parity Disparities in leadership roles Diversity, Equity & Inclusivity (DEI) initiatives Gender-Specific Challenges and Coping Mechanisms in Tourism Financial Inclusion in Displacement Settings Healthcare Disparities and Gender in Displacement:

A Scientific Perspective STEM Training Programs and Gender Inclusivity in Displacement Settings Technological Innovations for Addressing GenderSpecific Challenges in Displacement. 

Data-Driven Approaches to Understanding Gender Dynamics in Displacement. Socio-cultural-economic repercussions of displacement Financial Inclusion and Gender displacement Gender Displacement and economic inequality Ecological Resilience and Gender Displacement Politics of Gender Among Displaced Tribals

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Call for Papers Note: 

 

Original articles, research papers, and case studies that highlight the issues related to the theme, are invited from Policy makers, Academicians, Research scholars, Entrepreneurs, Industry professionals and Students. All the paper presenters and participants will receive a certificate. Please use the following google form link to register and submit the abstract 

https://forms.gle/hqvnnKtMLgP6q9Ph7

Registration for the conference ends on 20th March 2024

Full research papers must adhere to these guidelines 

Authors have to submit their papers to genesiscdoe@gmail.com after abstract acceptance.

Selected papers will be peer-reviewed and published with ISBN. The paper submitted for the Conference should be unpublished and original work of the contributor(s). 

An author can submit more than one paper, with maximum two co-authors. All papers should be about 2000 - 2500 words. The paper will be immediately rejected if the quality is insufficient and/or plagiarized. 

Research paper will include the title, author(s), designation, email, abstract (250-300 words), 5 Keywords, Introduction, Review of literature, Objectives/Hypothesis, Methodology, Findings, Suggestions, Conclusion and References (in alphabetical order). 

All references must be cited in the text (Follow APA 7th edition/ MLA 9th edition ) Important Dates: The abstract should be written within 250-300 words and 5 keywords. 

Abstract proceedings will be released on conference day (only of those who submit full length papers) 

Abstract Submission 31st January 2024 

Notification for the acceptance of abstract 10th February 2024 

Full paper Submission 15th March 2024.

For more details, please e-mail genesiscdoe@gmail.com 

Conference Venue: Center for Distance and Online Learning - JAIN (Deemed to-be University) #319, 17th Cross, 25th Main JP Nagar 6th Phase, Bengaluru Karnataka, India- 560078

CFP: Voicing Otherness Reconfiguring #Australia’s #Postcoloniality-17th ESSE Conference 2024

 

17th ESSE Conference 2024 Lausanne  26-30 August 2024

(please note, only members of one of the European Association for English Studies or similar can present papers at the Conference, so you should consider applying for one before sending a proposal)

Recent debates in so-called Commonwealth nations have raised issues about the representation of others and the way in which an Other is o;en defined through a distorted vision stemming from the sustaining of imperial/nationalistic practices that may been even more significant in the late 20th and the 21st Centuries at a global level. The place of Europe in former colonies is still paramount with the binary centre/margin, locating the non-European Other in a liminal space and, in fact, conveying a nostalgia for an imperial past.

 The post-reconciliation stage in Australia and the Uluru statement from the heart (2017) have paved the way for the current political debates around “A Voice to Parliament” meant to enshrine an

Indigenous voice in the Australian constitution and thus bring all Australians together and encourage them to move forward as a nation.

Several critics in various fields of the academia (Ashcroft; Appadurai; C Bhabha; Mbembe…) have sought to explore the perception of otherness in order to question the various discourses that seek to reappraise the role of the nation, reconfigure the space of the nation or the agency of Other. Australian fiction often shows how the cultural encounter between individuals under the flagship “multicultural nation” is even more complex, considering the sustaining of practices inherited from Europe and of a discourse that maintains the “non- European” in a liminal space.

In his book, Postcolonial Melancholia (2005) Gilroy argues that the need for the homogenized nation often surfaces as an attempt to dismiss a postcolonial situation deemed desperate. Gilroy focuses on the mechanisms that trigger the return of nationalisms (in their various forms) and induce a postcolonial chaos. 

Taking on Gilroy’s analysis of ethnicity and identity issues and Ghassan Hage's work on multiculturalism and his idea that Australia’s multiculturalism is a “cosmopolitan multiculturalism”, that it thus prevents inclusion for the sake of less visible forms of exclusion, we encourage papers that analyze the various forms of marginalization that occur in the “postcolonial moment” and to what extent such a ”moment” may encourage writers to search for new alternatives: alternative ways of living and of relating to the earth, alternative ways of approaching and experiencing otherness, also alternative literary discourses of the Other – which may point out to tensions between the postmodern and the postcolonial.

Bourdieu’s notion of “habitus” may be useful for the understanding of discourses that articulate physical space, social space, and spiritual space. The issue at stake will be to determine to what extent a reconstruction of landscapes, a rewriting of myths and stories can or cannot trace the contours of a post-colonial cultural dilemma.

In following these ideas, we encourage papers in the field of Australian literatures that address the displacement of individuals and the many forms of wanderings that that occur within the space of the nation and global environments. Thus, it might be noteworthy to determine the extent by which the act of wandering may trace the contours of various forms of enrooting and may create a diaspora of

forms. How such a diaspora may question, affect, or simply relocate the postcolonial in an “alter moment”.

Please send your proposals to both:

Pr Salhia Ben-Messahel, University of Toulon (France)

salhia.benmessahel@unjiv-tln.fr

Pr Marilena Parlati, University of Padova (Italy)

marilena.parlati@unipd.it

Call For Chapters on - #Indian #Migration During The #British #Empire: A #Literary #Scrutiny- #Springer

 Concept Note:

 

The largest group of Indian overseas immigrants resulted from the export of labour services, with indentured labour emerging as a leading example in this regard. The proliferation of the indentured system was driven mainly by two forces – first and foremost, in the face of strong condemnation on moral grounds from various parties, the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 brought about the abolition of the slave trade throughout the vast British Empire, with some exceptions (Blackburn 1988, 420), which resulted in a labour shortage in the plantation economy of the British overseas colonies. For instance, since the beginning of the 16th century, an era of imperialism brought about the successive annexation of many Southeast Asian countries by British colonialists. These early colonies were sparsely populated, leading the British to set their eyes on India – as a populous neighbouring country, where an abundant labour force with high skills and qualifications prevailed. Moreover, considering the British colonial hegemony in India at that time, it was easier to control and manipulate the Indian immigrants than Chinese or Japanese workers from other non-British colonies.

 

Transporting labour from British India to the British settlements in Southeast Asia served two purposes, alleviating the population pressure, as well as the domestic class and ethnic conflict in India, and serving as a source of labour for the colonies in Southeast Asia. An apprenticeship system was adopted with the emancipation of slaves that required all enslaved persons to be transformed into “apprentices”, and to continue labouring for their former masters for a period of four to six years in exchange for provisions. It was essentially slavery by another name (Burn 1937; Green 1976), although this new system came with some inherent flaws that led to its later abandonment. The former slaves had a stronger sense of legal and self-protection, and so refused to do their work, protesting the system of gradual emancipation, and demanding immediate and full liberation. To fill the labour “vacuum”, Hugh Tinker noted, The British Empire recruited nearly 15 million Indians from inland cities in northern India and the coastal cities of Eastern India and shipped them to the overseas British colonies as far away as Natal, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, Suriname and Fiji to replace the former slaves on the sugar plantations. Nearby were places like Malaysia and Sri Lanka in Southeast Asia where Indians were forced to grow tea, pepper, coffee, rubber and palm oil, and to work in tin mining and logging for roads (Tinker 1974, 77).

 

In nature, they were indentured labour, known more commonly as Coolies or Piglets, and served as cheap labour, subject to the interests of the British colonialists, and with the typical characteristics of colonial subjects. Concerning the source of indentured labour, the early immigrants were Tamils from the Madras region of India, or Eastern Indians from the present-day Bangladesh. In the later period, the majority of immigrants were farmers from the north, such as from the Gangetic plain in Uttar Pradesh. In other words, the indentured laborers came mainly from the coastal areas of south India from the very beginning but were

 

Exploring Indian Migration during the British Colonial Period to Different Parts of the World

 

Indian migration during the British Raj represents a complex and multifaceted historical phenomenon that deserves in-depth exploration. This migration spanned several centuries and was characterized by the movement of millions of Indians to various corners of the world. While economic reasons often took precedence, the motivations behind this migration were diverse, encompassing a myriad of factors. To gain a comprehensive understanding of this historical event, we invite scholars, researchers and academicians, to submit chapters for this research project that delve into Indian migration during the British colonial era.

 

The project will address the following with reference to literature:

 

• Literary representation of Indian migration to South Africa during the British Raj
• Literary representation of Indian migration to East Africa during the British Raj
• Literary representation of Indian migration to West and North Africa during the British Raj
• Literary representation of Indian migration to Caribbean Islands during the British Raj
• Literary representation of Indian migration to Middle, East, and South Asia during the British Raj
• Literary representation of Indian migration to the Western World during the British Raj

 

This edited book adopts a comparative approach, filling a gap in existing literature. While other works focus on specific regions or offer historical or sociological perspectives, our project provides a comprehensive literary study.

 

Editors:

 

Dr. Shubhanku Kochar

 

Dr. M. Anjum Khan

 

Submission Guidelines:

 

• Email a 200-word chapter proposal and a 100-word author's bio-note to the editors by 15th December 2023.
• Acceptance notifications will be sent by 31st December 2023.
• Full chapters due by 30th April 2024.

 

Contact:

 

Email proposals to shubhankukochar@outlook.com and anjumkhanrs@gmail.com