Monsoon 2018

The regular seminars in Monsoon 2018 were:

1. Monks, Networks and Borderlands in British India, Malvika Kasturi, University of Toronto
2. (Re)Presenting the 'Medieval' in Indian History, Meena Bhargava, Indraprastha College for Women.
3. Out of Africa: India Africa and Possible Histories, Dilip M Menon, University of Witwatersrand.
4. Contesting Narratives: Royalty, the Forest and Notions of Righteousness in Early India, Kumkum Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
5. 'These Pirs Are only Interested in Music, Dance, and Women...': Some Reflections on Sufism in South Asia, Kashshaf Ghani, Nalanda University
6. Changing Paradigms in South Asian Prehistory: Attirampakkam and Beyond, Shanti Pappu, Sharma Centre For Heritage Education.
7. Barber in the Surgeon: The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Medical Service in India, c. 1725-1855, Shrimoy Roy Chaudhury, Shiv Nadar University.

The seminars from the Reading Images: Sites, Objects, Media Series were:

1. Mughal Chronicles: Words, Images and the Gaps In Between, Kavita Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
2. Camera and Cosmopolitanism: Notes from South Asia, Ranu Roychoudhuri, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.