I was invited by Graduate Students in the Department of History to be their keynote lecturer for an international conference entitled, “Encountering Colonialism: Land, Lives, Legacies.” It was great to be able to switch gears from what I’ve been working on of late and return to my deep love of land, sovereignty, and 19th century South Asia. Much of my remarks here comes from segments of a chapter in my upcoming book Imperial Encounters in Sri Lanka: Pluriversal Sovereignty and The State. The recording begins a few minutes after I’d already started speaking, and the file can be found here:
Ajay Parasram 