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DESCRIPTION:From\nNon-Brahmin Self-Respect to Dravidian Self-Rule: Anti-Cas
te Internationalism\,\nAnti-Colonial \;Nationalism\,\nand the Complexi
ty of Interwar Figures \;The\nMoynihan Institute’s South Asia Center p
resents a talk by Matthew Baxter of\nSyracuse University. \;The\nrisin
g centrality of “comparison” in the opening decades of 21st-century politi
cal theory invites attention to how local articulations of power\nrely on
distant relationships—whether concrete or imagined. This presentation\nfo
cuses on the rising salience of the Continental Jew during the 1930s and i
ts\nsubsequent appropriations on the Indian Subcontinent by elements assoc
iated\nwith the radical social reformer EV Ramasami (EVR\, 1879-1973). I
argue that\nthe Jew’s riven image in Western Europe—“logically contradicto
ry but\npsychologically consistent…appear[ing] both as…victim of persecuti
on and\npersecutor” (Lowenthal &\; Guterman\, 1949)—became bound to dra
matic shifts in\nEVR’s challenge to caste-based injustice in South India.
\;Matthew H. Baxter (Ph.D.\, University of California\, Berkeley) is
the regional programs manager\, Asia\, at the Moynihan Institute and assis
tant professor by courtesy appointment\, political science\, at the Maxwel
l School\, Syracuse\nUniversity. He previously served on the political sc
ience faculty at Ashoka\nUniversity\, was a visiting scholar at Cornell Un
iversity’s South Asia Program\,\nheld postdoctoral positions at Harvard Un
iversity and Rutgers University\, and\nworked as the associate editor for
South Asia at Asian Survey. \;
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SUMMARY:From Non-Brahmin Self-Respect to Dravidian Self-Rule
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:From\nNon-Brahmin Self-Respect to Dravidian
Self-Rule: Anti-Caste Internationalism\,\nAnti-Colonial \;Nation
alism\,\nand the Complexity of Interwar Figures \;
The\nM
oynihan Institute’s South Asia Center presents a talk by Matthew Baxter of
\nSyracuse University. \;
The\nrising centrality of “compar
ison” in the opening decades of 21st-century political theory
invites attention to how local articulations of power\nrely on distant rel
ationships—whether concrete or imagined. This presentation\nfocuses on th
e rising salience of the Continental Jew during the 1930s and its\nsubsequ
ent appropriations on the Indian Subcontinent by elements associated\nwith
the radical social reformer EV Ramasami (EVR\, 1879-1973).
I argue that\nthe Jew’s riven image in Western Europe—“logically con
tradictory but\npsychologically consistent…appear[ing] both as…victim of p
ersecution and\npersecutor” (Lowenthal &\; Guterman\, 1949)—became boun
d to dramatic shifts in\nEVR’s challenge to caste-based injustice in South
India. \;
Matthew H. Baxter (Ph.D.\, University of
California\, Berkeley) is the regional programs manager\, Asia\, at the M
oynihan Institute and assistant professor by courtesy appointment\, politi
cal science\, at the Maxwell School\, Syracuse\nUniversity. He previously
served on the political science faculty at Ashoka\nUniversity\, was a vis
iting scholar at Cornell University’s South Asia Program\,\nheld postdocto
ral positions at Harvard University and Rutgers University\, and\nworked a
s the associate editor for South Asia at Asian Survey. \;
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