Join us for the Onkarbir Toor Memorial Lecture, “Global Capitalism and the Peasant Question in Colonial Panjab”.
Navyug Gill is a historian specializing in modern South Asia and global history. He is Associate Professor in the Department of History at William Paterson University. He received a PhD from Emory University, and a BA from the University of Toronto. Gill’s research explores broad questions of agrarian change, labor politics, caste hierarchy, postcolonial critique and global capitalism.
His first book, “Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab,” was published by Stanford University Press in 2024. It examines the relationship between landholding peasants and landless laborers and their implications for a new form of capitalist hierarchy in colonial India and across the globe. Gill’s writings have appeared in venues such as Past and Present, the Journal of Asian Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, and Al Jazeera.
Date & Time:
Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 5:30pm – 8:00pm
Location:
The xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees
Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, V6T 1Z2
This event is free and open to the public. The lecture will be presented in English and Punjabi.
This event is being organized by UBC Asian Studies with support from the Onkarbir Singh Toor Memorial Punjabi Studies Enhancement Fund, and co-sponsored by the Centre for South Asia and India Research (CISAR).
