Spring 2018

The regular seminars from Spring 2018 were:

  1. Reading Nund Rishi: Negative Theology and the Political in Medieval Kashmir, Professor Abir Bazaz, Ashoka University
  2. Time and Chronology: Historical and Philosophical Disputes, Dr. Prathama Banerjee,CSDS
  3. Fictional Form and Public Address: The Early Political Novel of Travancore, Professor Udaya Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  4. An Archaeological Past: Negotiations between Local Communities, Archaeologists, and the State, Jaya Menon, Shiv Nadar University
  5. What Are (Muslim) Universities for? Imagining the Nation, Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia around the Time of Partition, Dr Laurence Gautier , OP Jindal Global University.
  6. The Many Lives of Homai Vyarawalla, Professor Sabine Gadhikode, Jamia Millia Islamia

The seminar from "From the Margins" Series in Spring 2018 was:

  1. Intimate Violence: Age of Consent Agitations in Colonial Bengal, Tanika Sarkar, Jawaharlal Nehru University

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