Surveilling the State: Citizen Reporting and the Making of Political Facts in Post-Emergency South India
Tue 17 Nov · Bush House, Strand Campus · WC2R
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17 November 2026 17:00 to 18:30 Bush House, Strand Campus, London 17 Nov Part of King's India Institute Seminar Series This talk offers a history of the “fact-finding mission” in post-Emergency southern India and asks what it means to establish political "facts." Placing corporeal forms of witnessing, practices of citizen surveillance, and processes of documentation into longer genealogies of inquiries and investigative commissions, it also offers a discussion of the impacts of fact-finding on competing claims to truth and contestations over collective memory.
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