ICCR-lecture by Professor Radhika Chopra (AU / Dept. of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics,

Delhi University)

“Our Homes, Their Lives: Servitude in Colonial and Contemporary India”

Opening remarks by H.E. Sri Rajeev Shahare, Indian Ambassador to Denmark

2nd of May, 2016 – 1-3pm, room 1483-354

Abstract: The master-servant relationship of colonial India governed intimate spaces of the home. Its survival in contemporary India enables me to ask how this impossible relationship of proximity in intimate spaces was historically managed, and how it shapes servitude today. Taking my own middle class world in metropolitan India as a starting point, I ask how an urban middle class in modern India imagine and manage the servitude of others.

Radhika Chopra teaches at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi. She is the author of Militant and Migrant: The Politics and Social History of Punjab, and editor of Reframing Masculinities: Narrating the Supportive Practices of Men”. Her recent published papers include Commemorating Hurt: Memorializing Operation Bluestar (2016); Ziddi Mundeh: Political Asylum, Transnational Movement and the Migrations of Men (2015); 1984- Disinterred Memories (2015); A museum, a memorial and a martyr: Politics of memory in the Sikh Golden Temple (2013). She has been a Co-Chair of the U.N. Expert Group on the Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality, at Brasilia and Co-Coordinator, Workshop on “How to work with Boys and Young Men” UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and DAW, Commission on the Status of Women, New York.

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