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"Social Justice in South Asia" Program
DESCRIPTION
First page of the program for an event at UC Berkeley in support of social justice in South Asia which featured a film, short plays, a lecture, a slideshow, and refreshments. The lecture and slideshow presented the biography of social activist Shankar Guha Niyogi. This event was held on September 19, 1992 and sponsored by South Asians for Collective Action, the Punjabi People's Cultural Association, and the South Asian Discussion Group at UC Berkeley.
ADDITIONAL METADATA
Date: September 19, 1992
Subject(s): Indian Emergency
Type: Event Program
Language: English
Creator: South Asians for Collective Action, Punjabi People's Cultural Association, South Asian Discussion Group at UC Berkeley
Location: Berkeley, CA
TRANSCRIPTION
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Devi Prasad
"Understanding The Crisis in India"
DEVI PRASAD is on a crash tour of this country to talk about the present ''state of emergency" in India and its background. Devi worked with Mahatma Gandhi during the Indian Independence movement in the 1940's and with Jayaprakash Narayan in the Sarvodaya movement that followed after India won its independence. During the Summer of 1974, Devi spent many months in India with many leaders of the large opposition movement to Indira Gandhi, including Narayan, who has since been arrested and imprisoned along with 60,000 other political prisoners. In recent years Devi has served as the Secretary General and Chairman of the War Resisters International, which was based in London and is now in Brussels.
Sunday, October 19 -- 6:30 PM Potluck/7:30 PM Talk
2151 Vine St., Berkeley (Berkeley Friends Meeting House)
Co-sponsored by WRI/WRST & Indians For Democracy
Devi Prasad
"Understanding The Crisis in India"
DEVI PRASAD is on a crash tour of this country to talk about the present ''state of emergency" in India and its background. Devi worked with Mahatma Gandhi during the Indian Independence movement in the 1940's and with Jayaprakash Narayan in the Sarvodaya movement that followed after India won its independence. During the Summer of 1974, Devi spent many months in India with many leaders of the large opposition movement to Indira Gandhi, including Narayan, who has since been arrested and imprisoned along with 60,000 other political prisoners. In recent years Devi has served as the Secretary General and Chairman of the War Resisters International, which was based in London and is now in Brussels.
Sunday, October 19 -- 6:30 PM Potluck/7:30 PM Talk
2151 Vine St., Berkeley (Berkeley Friends Meeting House)
Co-sponsored by WRI/WRST & Indians For Democracy
PROVENANCE
Holding Institution: San Jose State University Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Calisphere Materials
Item History: 2023-06-20 (created); 2023-06-21 (modified)
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