UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES& HUMANITIES
Invites you to
A LECTURE
By
PROF.RAJEEV BHARGAVA
Director Centre for the Study of Developing Societies,
New Delhi
Title
"THE DIFFICULTY OF RECONCILIATION"
Abstract:How difficult is it to achieve reconciliation between two estranged communities? To answer this question, we need to distinguish two notions of reconciliation. The first, weak or thin conception is akin to 'resignation'. It is sought by groups that have waged war against one another but have come to the realization that neither can win. Reconciliation in this sense results from an enforced lowering of expectations. This form of realization is less a project and more akin to collective fate. But there is another stronger sense of reconciliation which means a virtual cancellation of enmity or estrangement via a morally grounded forgiveness, achievable only when conflicting groups acknowledge collective responsibility for past injustice, and shed their deep prejudices by a profound and painful transformation in their identities. It is because this process is not possible without a somewhat brutal confrontation with oneself and a painful recognition of one's own moral degradation that reconciliation is difficult to achieve.
DATE / TIME: 23rd JANUARY 2014 AT 3.00 P.M.
VENUE : SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AUDITORIUM
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Rajeev Bhargava is author of Individualism in Social Science, Secularism and its Critics (ed), What is Political Theory and Why do we need it?, The Promise of India's secular democracy. His contributions to political theory particularly in debates on Secularism, constitutionalism and reconciliation between communities are internationally recognized. He received the Malcolm Adishesiah award for his contribution to Social Sciences and the UGC national award for his contribution to Political Science. He taught between 1979 and 2005 at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Delhi and is currently Senior Fellow and Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
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