[Reader-list] Invitation to Rajni Kothari Lecture by Jayadeva Uyangoda at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
invite you to the Rajni Kothari Lecture





*Modern Buddhisms and Democracy *

Diverse Encounters in India and Sri Lanka

by *Jayadeva Uyangoda*





*Peter Ronald deSouza* will Chair

Friday, 7 April 2017, 6 pm

               *RSVP *

CSDS Seminar Hall,

   Tel: 011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054
                                                                          Fax:
011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 5.30 pm
                                                                       email:
jaya at csds.in





*Rajni Kothari Lectures* are instituted in honour of the CSDS Founder
Director Professor Rajni Kothari. Earlier speakers in the series include
Professors Charles Douglas Lummis, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Sudipta Kaviraj,
Gananath Obeyesekere, Rounaq Jahan, Abdellah Hammoudi, Charles Taylor, Arif
Dirlik, Shahid Amin, Alfred Stepan and Arindam Chakrabarti.



The lecture will map the contrasting trajectories in which Buddhism in
India and Sri Lanka have engaged with modern democracy. While the later 19th
and 20th century Buddhism-inspired political movements in India have
centre-staged the social question of equality in the struggle against caste
oppression, the Sri Lankan Buddhist political movements have focused
entirely on the themes of nation and the state. The Indian and Sri Lankan
processes of Buddhist modernity have produced two strands of Buddhist
engagement with politics which may described as ‘political Buddhism’ (Sri
Lanka) and ‘Buddhist politics’ (India), producing contrasting consequences
for citizenship, equality, justice, nationhood, and the state.



*Jayadeva Uyangoda* is currently Rajni Kothari Chair in Democracy at the
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. He was a Senior
Professor of Political Science at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. His
research and publications have been mainly on Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict,
minority rights, conflict and peace processes, democratization and state
reform in Sri Lanka.



He is currently working on a book on *Buddhist Politics and Democratization
in India and Sri Lanka*. Since 2004, he has been the Sri Lanka Coordinator
of Lokniti’s ‘State of Democracy in South Asia’ research project.



*Peter Ronald deSouza* is Professor at the Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies.

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Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
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