Agriculture and Anti-Imperialism: The Transnational Career of Pandurang Khankhoje


16:30 - 18:30 | 4 June 2019 | CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge.

At this seminar in the cum panis series, Thomas Lindner (Predoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development and member of the International Max-Planck Graduate School Moral Economies of Modern Societies) joins us to discuss some of his current research.

Abstract

Pandurang Khankhoje was an Indian anti-colonial activist and agricultural scientist. After studying in the US, he was involved in the “Hindu-German Conspiracy” against the British Empire during World War I and worked towards anti-colonial revolutions in the Middle East. In the 1920s, Khankhoje came to Mexico, where he developed new maize crops. By focusing on Khankhoje’s activities in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s, this talk examines the transnational career of an Indian revolutionary in dialogue with peasant and indigenous activism in Mexico. It hopes to spark discussion about agricultural knowledge production, transnational anti-imperialism, and unexpected histories of solidarity.

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