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Gujarat Elections: Subversion of Democracy/ in conversation with Shabnam Hashmi | |
Date | Friday March 14 |
Time | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM |
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Location Details | |
At the California Institute of Integral Studies Address: 1453 Mission Street (btw. 10th and 11th) in San Francisco Venue: 3rd Floor, Room 307 |
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Event Type | Speaker |
Organizer/Author | Anthropology Program at CIIS |
Gujarat Elections: Subversion of Democracy
in conversation with Shabnam Hashmi ______________________ February 28 - March 2, 2002, witnessed the murder of about 2,000 Muslims by militant Hindus in Gujarat, India. Women and children were victims of sexualized violence. Between 150,000-200,000 were internally displaced. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his government, in command over the law enforcement machinery, were responsible for providing leadership and material support in the politically motivated and planned attacks. Shabnam Hashmi will speak to cultural resistance by grassroots groups working for justice in Gujarat, and to the dynamics of electoral politics culminating in December 2007 with the reelection of Narendra Modi as chief minister. SHABNAM HASHMI is a leading voice in the struggle for secular democracy in India, and a founding member of ANHAD: Act Now for Harmony and Democracy. Introduced by Angana Chatterji for The Social and Cultural Anthropology Program, California Institute of Integral Studies Free and open to the public Directions: http://www.ciis.edu/about/directions.html or 415 575 6100 Further information: Phone: 415 575 6254 For other Bay Area events, see: http://www.friendsofsouthasia.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=ShabnamHashmi |
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