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DESCRIPTION:The world’s longest democratically elected Communist government
 \, in the Indian province of West Bengal\, was voted out of power in 2011.
  The present moment\, marked by ideological debates among various parliame
 ntary and non-parliamentary Communist groups\, is crucial for the Left’s f
 uture\, both in West Bengal and beyond. This talk explores how Marxism cam
 e to occupy the cultural centrality it did in late colonial and post-colon
 ial Bengal\, and how the construction of a historically specific social im
 aginary of egalitarianism and decolonization marked the legacy of the Left
 . Through an examination of cultural forms\, poetry\, plays etc\, this pre
 sentation argues that the Communist Left presented an alternative mode of 
 belonging and sociality from that of dominant nationalism\, and that such 
 a vision continues to inflect popular culture and politics in the era of g
 lobalization. Speaking: Auritro Majumder Ph.D. Candidate Department of Eng
 lish\, Syracuse University Sponsor: Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs\,
  Co-Sponsor South Asia Center\, Co-Sponsor
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SUMMARY:South Asia Center presents: Auritro Majumder
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The world’s longest democratically elected Com
 munist government\, in the Indian province of West Bengal\, was voted out 
 of power in 2011. The present moment\, marked by ideological debates among
  various parliamentary and non-parliamentary Communist groups\, is crucial
  for the Left’s future\, both in West Bengal and beyond. This talk explore
 s how Marxism came to occupy the cultural centrality it did in late coloni
 al and post-colonial Bengal\, and how the construction of a historically s
 pecific social imaginary of egalitarianism and decolonization marked the l
 egacy of the Left. Through an examination of cultural forms\, poetry\, pla
 ys etc\, this presentation argues that the Communist Left presented an alt
 ernative mode of belonging and sociality from that of dominant nationalism
 \, and that such a vision continues to inflect popular culture and politic
 s in the era of globalization. Speaking: Auritro Majumder Ph.D. Candidate 
 Department of English\, Syracuse University Sponsor: Moynihan Institute of
  Global Affairs\, Co-Sponsor South Asia Center\, Co-Sponsor
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