36th JP Memorial Lecture to be delivered by Ramachandra Guha
By Dr. V. Suresh
PUCL invites members and readers to the JP Memorial Lecture at 6 pm on 23rd March, 2016 at Chennai.
The 36th JP Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Ramachandra Guha on Tragedy of the Adivasis in Independent India’
“This lecture shall argue that Adivasis as a whole have gained least and lost most from six decades of democracy and development in India. They are even more deprived than the Dalits, yet, unlike, the Dalits, they have been unable to effectively articulate their grievances through the democratic and electoral process. The failures of the state and of the formal political system have provided a space for Maoist revolutionaries to move into. The first tragedy of the Adivasis is that the state has treated them with contempt and condescension. The second tragedy is that their presumed protectors, the Maoists, offer no long-term solution either”.
The venue details will be shared later. Those interested could write to pucl.natgensec@gmail.com.
Note about the JP Memorial Lecture
23rd March, 1977 is the date when Emergency was withdrawn as a result of the people’s struggle launched by Jayaprakash Narayan and other stalwarts. Since 1980 PUCL has celebrated 23rd March each year as JP Memorial Day during which day the JP Memorial Lecture is delivered. Each year the lecture is held in a different place. The day is not changed.
We will inform the venue by the first week of March, 2016.
The full speech will be uploaded in Youtube after the Lecture