Illiterate: An International Law Podcast with Aman Kumar

Aman Kumar

A free flowing discussion with area experts on international law, human rights, legal history. For more content, visit allaboutil.wordpress.com.

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    Establishment of the ILC with Keri van Douwen

    In this episode, Keri van Douwen talks about her paper on the process and deliberations for establishing the International Law Commission. Our discussion is based on Keri's paper published in the Leiden Journal of International Law. Keri van Douwen, "Seventeen Men at Lake Success: In Search of the International Law Commission", Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 37, Issue 3 (2024), 557–579.

    51 мин.
  2. Caste, Slavery and International Law

    22.08.2024

    Caste, Slavery and International Law

    In this episode, we discuss criminalization of tribes through legislations in colonial India. We also discuss how the British colonisers deliberately kept Caste away from any international discussion about abolition of slavery. Ahmed Memon, ⁠⁠‘English in taste, Indian in blood’: caste hegemony in the making of British international legal thought⁠⁠, London Review of International Law, (2024), Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 23–45 Rupa Viswanath, "The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India", Columbia University Press (2014)

    17 мин.
  3. Sanskrit, Aryan Invasion Theory and International Law

    10.08.2024

    Sanskrit, Aryan Invasion Theory and International Law

    In this episode, we discuss the influence of Sanskrit on the British imperial thoughts on international law. We talk about the Aryan Invasion theory and how the Britishers used it to perpetuate their ideology of racial superiority in India. Ahmed Memon, ⁠‘English in taste, Indian in blood’: caste hegemony in the making of British international legal thought⁠, London Review of International Law, (2024), Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 23–45

    22 мин.
  4. Caste of International Law with Ahmed Memon

    31.07.2024

    Caste of International Law with Ahmed Memon

    This is part one of a three-part series where I discuss Ahmed Memon's research on case and its role in the formation of international law. In this episode, Ahmed talks about: his lived experience and their role in his research, the need to differentiate between Caste and Tribe within the rubrics of international law, how his research on 'Tribes' is different from Fourth World Approaches to International Law, and Adivasi theory of double colonialism. Ahmed Memon, ‘English in taste, Indian in blood’: caste hegemony in the making of British international legal thought, London Review of International Law, (2024), Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 23–45 Other works mentioned in this episode: Mohammad Shahabuddin, "Minorities and the Making of Postcolonial States in International Law", (Cambridge University Press 2021). Srinivas Burra, TWAIL's Others: A Caste Critique of TWAILers and their filed of Analysis, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 33 (2016). Virginius Xaxa, State, Society, and Tribes: Issues in Post-Colonial India (Pearson Education India 2008). Raile Rocky Ziipao, "Infrastructure of Injustice: State and Politics in Manipur and Northeast India", (Routledge India 2020).

    24 мин.

  5. 08.06.2024

    मालवा की रानी सिसोदनी और उनके द्वारा सिंधिया के आधिपत्य की अस्वीकृति (Queen Sisodini of Malwa and her rejection of suzerainty of Scindias)

    In the final part of our dicussion on the Princely State of Gwalior, Shashank Singh talks about the struggle for control over the Rajputs of Malwa, between the Scindias and the British. Shashank tells us how Rani Sisodini claimed that her people were under the British and not under the Scindias, although, eventually, her empire was merged with the Scindias.

    29 мин.

  6. 06.06.2024

    सिंधिया और 'मुस्लिम आरक्षण' एवं 'राष्ट्रवाद का दमन' with Shashank Singh

    In this second part of our discussion on the Princely State of Gwalior, we talk about how the Scindias managed the emerging tide of nationalism in pre-independence India. We also talk about how Scindias gave 33% reservation to muslims in Gwalior and how, after independence, they joined hands with Hindu organisations to continue their hold over power.

    20 мин.

  7. 30.05.2024

    ग्वालियर रियासत के सिंधिया: राजनीति, अकाल और अशिक्षा (Scindias of Princely State of Gwalior: Politics, Famine and Illiteracy) with Shashank Singh

    In this episode, we discuss Shashank Singh's PhD research, done at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, on the Princely State of Gwalior between 1860-1975. This a three-part episode. In this first part, Shashank talks about how the Scindia's hid famine and illiteracy behind the veil of 'progress' in Gwalior. In Part II, we discuss how the Scindias played a balancing act by aligning with the British, the Hindu Mahasabha and the Indian National Congress, at different time to continue their hold on power. In Part III, we will discuss the tripartite struggle over jurisdiction between the Scindias, the British and the Rajputs of Malwa.

    18 мин.

  8. 12.04.2024

    On Teaching International Law in India with Swati Singh Parmar

    In this episode, Prof. Swati Singh Parmar talks about her experiences of teaching international law in Geographical South. She highlights the structural problems of being a researcher of international law in a third world country, and suggests avenues of further research in the filed. In particular we discuss Swati's 2023 paper on the subject. Paper discussed in the episode: Swati S. Parmar, An Anticolonial Dream against the Disaffection and Dissonance: Teaching the (Other) International Law in India, 20(2), Indonesian Journal of International Law, 2023. Papers mentioned in the episode: Michelle Staggs Kelsall, Disordering International Law, 33(3), European Journal of International Law, 2022. R. P. Dhokalia,The Teaching of International Law and International Institutions in Indian Universities, 13(3), Journal of the Indian Law Institute, 1971. B. S. Chimni, Teaching, Research and Promotion of International Law in India: Past, Present and Future, 5, Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2001. Srinivas Burra, Teaching Critical International Law: Reflections from the Periphery, TWAILR Reflections, 12 March 2021. Andrea Bianchi, International Law Theories: An Inquiry into Different Ways of Thinking, OUP, 2016. Anne Orford and Florian Hoffmann (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law, OUP, 2016.

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