A day after release, Umar presents paper at scholar conference

March 19, 2016 19:44

A day after his release from Tihar jail where he was lodged in a sedition case, Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid on Friday presented a paper at the Young Scholar's Conference at the university.

The Centre for Historical Studies was to organise its annual Young Scholars' Conference on February 18-20, however, the meet was postponed following the sequence of events that unfolded in the JNU after the controversial February 9 event.

Khalid, who is pursuing his PhD at the same department, presented a paper titled "Changing village authority in the Adivasi Hinterland: State, Community and Contingencies of Rule in Singhbhum (1830-1893)".

Khalid, a former member of the now-defunct, pro-Maoist Democratic Students Union, has been listed as one of the organisers of the event on campus against hanging of Afzal Guru during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.

"Umar presented a paper and Anirban will have to start writing the last bit of his PhD. Because this is what we do in the JNU..We study and we struggle. We fight in the streets brave your water canons, and come back to debate mode of production (as fiercely)," a student said.

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