The Indian Jati and the European Nation: The Twins-Unlike Concepts of Mega-Tribal Level

Speaker: Prof M. Krzysztof Byrski, distinguished scholar and Indologist and former Ambassador of Poland to India

Europe and South Asia are "twins-unlike""”similar on many counts but dissimilar as far as their "personalities" go. The most fascinating point of confrontation is the European "nation" as compared to India's "caste", as well as umma and qaum. The speaker argues that taking this comparison to its conclusion would suggest how the EU might solve its problems of supra-national integration, and South Asia resolve the pain of Partition