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Lecture | The Marathi Man: The Decline of the Left and the Emergence of Reactionary Masculinity in Colonial Bombay (online)

Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 5:00 pm

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The figure of the dreaded “Marathi Manoos” has dominated politics in Bombay for nearly seven decades. The term signifies lumpen and resentful Marathi-speaking men, native to the region, who have failed to benefit from the economic growth of the postcolonial city. They are a terrifying right-wing force in Bombay today, practicing a politics of violence, xenophobia, and misogyny, but how did the Marathi Manoos come to be?  Historians and anthropologists of South Asia have thus far argued that this reactionary figure is a product of postcolonial right-wing politics.

Professor Ninad Pandit's talk will take a heterodox approach to show how the Marathi Manoos was, counterintuitively, a product of the city’s progressive working-class movement in the pre-colonial 1930s-40s. Drawing on archival sources ranging from labor statistics and political speeches to popular theater and literature, the talk will argue that the left’s inability to produce a coherent vision for a decolonized India led to a rightward swing in left-anticolonialism, and this figure of a lumpen worker became the standard bearer of an enduring politics of resentment.

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