Join Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute,for our next fellowship awardee Dr Jyoti Atwal joining us to discuss Indo-Irish historical connections: Transnational and anti-imperial movements.
Chair: Professor Linda Connolly, Director, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute
Respondents: Dr Jennifer Redmond, Department of History, Maynooth University and Dr Chandana Mathur, Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University
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In this interactive roundtable discussion, Dr Atwal will start with a general chronology of Indo-Irish connections (including W.B. Yeats fascination with the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, V.V. Giri, the President of India 1968-1974 who studied Law in UCD between 1913-1916 during the Irish revolution, Irish links with the Gadar Party and Irish feminist connections, including with the Besant and Cousins group). Dr Atwal will then focus on the methodology of the anti-colonial movement - how despite being different - the two nations borrowed from each other. This brought enrichment and variety to the struggle for freedom, which had an impact beyond the colonial period.
Biography
Dr Jyoti Atwal is Associate Professor of Modern History at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and a Visiting Associate Professor (2022-2027) at UCD School of History, University College Dublin, Ireland.
From 2017 to 2022 she was an Adjunct Professor at Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick, Ireland. She specialises in gender history in India and the transnational history of India and Ireland in the colonial context. Her latest publications include a co-edited volume with Sarah-Anne Buckley and Ciara Breathnach Gender and History: Ireland 1852-1922 (London: Routledge, 2022); a co-edited book with Eunan O Halpin on India, Ireland and Anti-Imperial Struggle: Remembering the Connaught Rangers Mutiny, 1920 (New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2021 funded by the Embassy of Ireland, New Delhi); and a monograph Real and Imagined Widows: Gender Relations in Colonial North India (New Delhi: Primus Books, 2016).
Dr Atwal is a member of the Advisory Board of Ireland-India Studies Centre Cork, University College Cork and for projects at UCD. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, Galway, NUIG (2019); The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin (2012, 2016); Dublin City University (2013); University College Cork (2012). Dr Jyoti Atwal is presently a Visiting Fellow (October 2022) at Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, Maynooth University.