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SUMMARY: INDIANS ON INDIAN LANDS: No Past to Long For
DESCRIPTION: Book Talk Lecture and Panel Join us for a book talk and discus
 sion on Nishant Upadhyay’s “Indians on Indian Land: Intersections of Race\,
  Caste\, and Indigeneity” alongside short film\, “No Past to Long For” by d
 irector Monica Cheema. This talk is free and open to the public. Registrati
 on is required. This event is sponsored by […]
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  caption="" width="website"]</p><h3>Book Talk Lecture and Panel</h3><p>Join
  us for a book talk and discussion on Nishant Upadhyay's "Indians on Indian
  Land: Intersections of Race\, Caste\, and Indigeneity" alongside short fil
 m\, "No Past to Long For" by director Monica Cheema.</p><p>This talk is fre
 e and open to the public. Registration is required.</p><p>[buttons][button 
 link_text="Register here" link_url="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp
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 ><p>This event is sponsored by UBC Asian Studies and the Onkarbir Toor Memo
 rial Punjabi Enhancement Fund\, and co-sponsored by Centre for India and So
 uth Asia Research (CISAR).</p><p><strong>Date & Time:<br /></strong>Tuesday
 \, September 23\, 2025 | 6:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)</p><p><strong>Location:<br /
 ></strong>Room 120\, C.K. Choi Building\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver</p><hr
  /><h3>Events in Conjunction</h3><h3>Open Graduate Seminar</h3><p>This even
 t will be held online and in-person. Registration is required.</p><p>[butto
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 buttons]</p><p><strong>Date & Time:<br /></strong>Monday\, September 22\, 2
 025 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm (PDT)</p><p><strong>Location:<br /></strong>Online vi
 a Zoom and Room 351\, C.K. Choi Building\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver</p><h
 r /><h3>Speakers</h3><p><strong>Nishant Upadhyay</strong> is an Associate P
 rofessor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. In their 
 new book\, Nishant unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colo
 nial relationship with Indigenous peoples\, lands\, and nations in Canada. 
 Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of dominant Indian 
 caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism\, antiblackness\, capi
 talism\, brahminical supremacy\, Hindu nationalism\, and heteropatriarchy.<
 /p><p><strong>Monica Cheema</strong> is a Punjabi filmmaker\, researcher an
 d community facilitator. Recent shorts Let Us Try Again (Ao Phir Koshish Ka
 rie) and When It Falls Apart reflect on land\, labor\, and resource extract
 ion as it relates to colonial railway histories and 'ghost' towns.</p>
CATEGORIES:Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Punjabi
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