{"id":972,"date":"2023-03-13T20:04:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T20:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/?p=972"},"modified":"2023-05-15T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T11:07:09","slug":"simona-sawhney-comrades-strikes-and-strifes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/2023\/03\/13\/simona-sawhney-comrades-strikes-and-strifes\/","title":{"rendered":"Simona Sawhney: &#8216;Comrades, Strikes and Strifes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/QMSawhney.eventbrite.co.uk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-973\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/03\/20230406_SAF_Sawhney-723x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/03\/20230406_SAF_Sawhney-723x1024.png 723w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/03\/20230406_SAF_Sawhney-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/03\/20230406_SAF_Sawhney-768x1088.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/03\/20230406_SAF_Sawhney-1084x1536.png 1084w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/03\/20230406_SAF_Sawhney.png 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">All are welcome to this South Asia Forum discussion of <a href=\"https:\/\/penguin.co.in\/book\/dada-comrade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yashpal&#8217;s semi-autobiographical novel <i>Dada Comrade <\/i>(1941)<\/a>, a pioneering work of Hindi literature. We will be joined in conversation by the literary scholar and political theorist Simona Sawhney, translator of the new Penguin &#8216;Modern Classics&#8217; English edition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Please register for this event at <a href=\"http:\/\/QMSawhney.eventbrite.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>QMSawhney.eventbrite.co.uk<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span class=\"s1\">All participants are encouraged to read the following in advance: Sawhney&#8217;s &#8216;Introduction&#8217;, Yashpal&#8217;s &#8216;Preface: Two Words&#8217; and Chapters 1 + 2. PDF available upon registration. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Simona Sawhney <\/b>is Associate Professor of Literature at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She is the author of <i>The Modernity of Sanskrit <\/i>(Minnesota, 2009) and translator of Yashpal&#8217;s <i>Dada Comrade <\/i>(Penguin, 2022). Prof Sawhney has written widely on questions of democracy, equality, violence, and revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s1\">All are welcome to this South Asia Forum discussion of <a href=\"https:\/\/penguin.co.in\/book\/dada-comrade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yashpal&#8217;s semi-autobiographical novel <i>Dada Comrade <\/i>(1941)<\/a>, a pioneering work of Hindi literature. We will be joined in conversation by the literary scholar and political theorist Simona Sawhney, translator of the new Penguin &#8216;Modern Classics&#8217; English edition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}