[Reader-list] Invitation to a book discussion on ‘Visions of Development’

[Praveen Rai]

*Centre for the Study of Developing Societies*

invites you to a book discussion on




*Visions of Development: Films Division of India *

*and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75*
by Peter Sutoris

Discussant: *Veena Hariharan*





*Ravi Vasudevan* will Chair

Monday, 19 September 2016, 5 pm



CSDS Seminar
Room
*RSVP*

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi
110054
Tel: 011 23942199

Please join us for tea at 4.30 pm
                                                                     email:
preethi at csds.in <jaya at csds.in>


The book examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology
between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. It pioneers a
novel methodology for the study of development thought and its
cinematic representations by analysing films made by the Films Division of
India between 1948 and 1975. By comparing these documentaries to
late-colonial films on 'progress', it highlights continuities with and
departures from colonial notions of development in modern India.



*Peter Sutoris* is PhD candidate and Gates Scholar at the Education Faculty
of Cambridge University.



*Veena Hariharan* is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at School of
Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

-- 
Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai