The Center for India and South Asia Research is delighted to announce that Akhil Gupta, prominent anthropologist of development, modernity, and postcolonial South Asia, will be speaking here at UBC this week on the topic of:
“Literacy and Democracy: Notes from Anthropological Observations in Rural India”
Thursday, March 15, 2007, 11:30 – 1 PM
Room 120, C.K. Choi Building (1855 West Mall)
Akhil Gupta is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Red Tape: Corruption, Inscription and Governmentality in Rural India (forthcoming, Duke), and Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India (Duke, 1998), and has edited The Anthropology of the State (Blackwell, 2006), Caste and Outcast (2002), Culture, Power, Place (1997), and Anthropological Locations (1997).