Violence and Postcolonial India

Om Dwivedi Announcement
Location
Romania
Subject Fields
Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Human Rights, Literature, Nationalism History / Studies, South Asian History / Studies

Call for Papers: Violence and Postcolonial India

 

International Journal of Humanistic Ideology  (Issue 2018)

 

Guest Editor: Om Prakash Dwivedi, Auro University, India

 

India is famously known as a land where diversity of religions and cultures exist.  Communal harmony is one of its founding principles as envisaged by various philosophers and sages like Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, etc. However, this inherent feature of India’s harmony has not only broken asunder repeatedly, but also heightened in the form of rampant violence. Violence has been a recurrent phenomenon both in the history of colonial and postcolonial India. In fact, as per the April 2017 Pew Research Center analysis of 198 countries, India occupied the fourth position for its religious intolerance. If colonial India witnessed the brutal onslaught of the Britishers, postcolonial India advances the cyclic pattern of violence, albeit in different mutations. The redrawing of boundary has concomitantly redefined a new enemy. The enemy is now within. The monumental period of India’s postcoloniality is marked by a constant struggle over who owns India and its soul. Communal violence now converges with state sponsored violence underpinned with caste, gender, and regional identity. It creates a culture of violence which spews, encourages, and sustains new binaries and everyday confrontation.

The forthcoming special issue of International Journal of Humanistic Ideology (a peer-reviewed international journal, published by CLUJ University Press, Romania) will be titled, “Violence and Postcolonial India”. The special number seeks to respond to this moment of crisis plaguing postcolonial India and the various ways in which violence can be reimagined by addressing the following issues:

  • Violence and ethics
  • Humanism and violence
  • Resistance or Violence?
  • Gendered violence
  • Partition violence
  • Linguistic violence
  • Capital violence
  • Old and new colonialism
  • Political violence
  • Violence in the digital realm

 

Please email your abstracts at the address mentioned below. Abstracts should not be more than 500 words. Acceptance letter would be sent out by 10th March, 2018. The word limit of complete articles should be between 4000-6000 words. Final publication of articles is subject to successful peer-review process.

Deadline for abstract submissions: 05th March, 2018.

Deadline for article submissions:    31st July, 2018.

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