Schedule of the Workshop
Friday: January 10, 2025
Workshop Session I: Welcome Address: Lajwanti Chatani
4.00 pm – 5.30 pm Inaugural Address: Purushottam Agrawal
“How to Approach Kabir and Others….”
Vote of Thanks: Chinmaya Solanki
Tea/Coffee
Saturday: January 11, 2025
10.30 am – 10.45am Registration
Workshop Session II:
10.45 am – 11.15 am Thematic Introduction: Lajwanti Chatani and Chinmaya
Solanki
11.15am – 11.30 am Tea/Coffee
Workshop Session III:
11.30 am – 1.00 pm Chinmaya Solanki,
“Beyond Time and Death: The Politics
of Utopias in Bhakti”
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Lunch
Workshop Session IV:
2.00 pm – 3.15 pm Abhishek Dadhich, “Dilemma behind Devotion:
Reconstructing the ‘Modernist’ Elements of Bhakti
Movement”
Siddharaj Desai, “Bhakti Movement and Gramsci’s Idea of
War of Position”
3.15-3.30 Tea/Coffee
Sunday: January 12, 2025
Workshop Session V:
10.30 am – 11.45 am Sachin Ketkar, “World Literature and Literary
Historiography of Bhakti in Marathi”11.45am – 12.00pm Tea/Coffee
Workshop Session VI:
12.00pm – 1.15pm Sachin Ketkar, “Reading Bhakti: Questions of Tradition and
Modernity”
1.15 pm – 2.15 pm Lunch
Workshop Session VIII:
2.15 pm – 3.30 pm Rachana Bhangaokar & Anushree Gokhale, “Viraha, Bhakti
and Mukti: An Interpretive Content Analysis of Select
Marathi Abhangas”
Kesha Marvada,“Bhakti, Publics, and the Politics of
Everyday Caste: Reading Caste:Resilience in the Bhakti
Poetry of Meghvars”
3.30 pm – 3.45 pm Tea/Coffee
3.45 pm – 5.20 pm Ravindra Sendhav, “Different Approaches to Reason: Bhakti
and Western Enlightenment”
Vijaysree Vishwanath, “The Politics of Bhakti: Subversion
and/or Subaltern?”
Heti Damani, “Imagining Anarchist Utopia: From Ravidas’
Begumpura to Ursula K Le Guin’s Anarres”
5.30 pm – 6.00pm Aparna Vijayan
A Musical Performance on “Understanding Pain through
the Aesthetics and Politics of Bhakti”
Monday: January 13, 2025
Workshop Session IX:
10.30 am – 11.45 am Lajwanti Chatani, “Thematic Continuities and Ruptures in
Bhakti”
11.45am – 12.00 am Tea/Coffee
Workshop Session X:
12.00 pm – 1.15pm Oshin Thakkar, “Bhakti Between Freedom and Violence”
Fiona Dias, “Provoking Patriarchy through Bhakti:
Discovering the Onset of Feminism in India”
1.15 pm – 2.15 pm Lunch
Workshop Session XI:
2.15pm – 2.30pm Concluding Session: Open Discussion and Feedback
List of Participants
1. Abhishek Dadhich, National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar
Email: dadhichabhishek5@gmail.com
2. Aparna Vijayan, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Email: apuv1210@gmail.com
3. Amarendra Pandey, Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad
Email: amarendrapandey@gujaratvidyapith.org
4. Chinmaya Solanki, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Email: solanki.jimmy@gmail.com
5. Fiona Dias, Independent Scholar
Email: fionadias8@gmail.com
6. Hani Jani, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Email: hanijani0805@g mail.com
7. Harashruti Mistry, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Email: harashrutimsu@gmail.com
8. Heti Damani, Independent Scholar
Email: julywonder18@gmail.com
9. Kesha Marvada, Centre for Culture and Development, Vadodara
Email: keshamarvada78@gmail.com
10. Komal Sharma, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Email: komalsharma180799@gmail.com
11. Lajwanti Chatani, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Email: lajwanti.chatani@gmail.com
12. Oshin Thakkar, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Email: oshinthakkar94@gmail.com
13. P C Kar, Director, Centre for Contemporary Theory, Vadodara
Email: prafullakar@gmail.com14. Purushottam Agrawal, British Academy fellow at Wolfson College, University of
Cambridge
15. Rachana Bhangaokar, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Email: rachana.bhangaonkar-hdfs@msubaroda.ac.in
16. Ravindra Sendhav, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Email: ravindrasindhav@gmail.com
17. Sachin Ketkar, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Email: sachinketkar@gmail.com
18. Shailee Patel, Faculty of Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Email: shaileepatel2024@gmail.com
19. Siddharaj Desai, Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University, Ahmedabad
Email: siddharajdesai100pc@gmail.com
20. Udayprakash Sharma, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar
Email: udayprakash.sharma@gmail.com
21. Vijaysree Vishwanath, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Email: rohitavishwanath@gmail.com