Das Colloquium "Indian agrarian and peasant history – a challenge to current research" findet am 23.09.2010 am ZMO, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin zu Ehren von Petra Heidrich (13.11.1940-31.01.2006) statt.

Das Programm: "Indian agrarian and peasant history – a challenge to current research", Moderation: Heike Liebau (ZMO, Berlin)

9.30 – 10.30 Welcome
Annemarie Hafner (Berlin): Die Forschungen Petra Heidrichs im Kontext der Entwicklung der Südasienwissenschaften am ZMO (1992-2000)

10.30-10.45 Break

10.45-13.00
Ravi Ahuja (Universität Göttingen): Petra Heidrich's "Agricultural Labour in India" (1988): A present day reading

Sumit Sarkar (New Delhi): Peasant Studies as part of South Asian studies during the last four decades until today. Tendencies; developments, shortcomings

Michael Mann (HU Berlin): Why returning the peasent to South Asian history?

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.15
Nitin Sinha (ZMO, Berlin): The role of Sadhus for the mobilization of peasants

Aditya Sarkar (Universität Göttingen): Attacks on peasant land and the resistance from below in contemporary India

Adapa Satyanarayana (University of Hyderabad / Jacobs University Bremen):
"Kulak Pettandars": The rise of dominant caste peasantry in Andhra Pradesh

16.15-16.45 Break

16.45-18.15
Corinna Unger (Jacobs University Bremen): Industrialization or agrarian Reform? West German modernization policies in India in the 1950s and 1960s

Ujjaini Halim (Kolkata): Questions of food security in India