Spring 2019

The regular seminars in Spring 2019 were:

1. Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial India, 1850-1920, Samiparna Samanta, O P Jindal University
2. Sutas, Nastikas and Retellling the Mahabharata, Naina Dayal, St Stephen's College
3. Follow the Elephant, Thomas Trautmann, University of Michigan
4. Sacred Spiritual Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia, Prasenjit Duara, Duke University
5. It Is Time To Rewrite History, Narayani Gupta, Jamia Millia Islamia
6. The Social Frame of Historical Memory: A Comparative View, Sumit Guha, University of Texas
7. Law as Contested Communication: Literacy, Performativity and the Legal Order in Early Modern South Asia, Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi
8. The Quotidian Practices: Perspectives from Early North and North-West India, Suchandra Ghosh, University of Calcutta

Joint seminars with other departments were:

• Bringing the World into the History of Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge, Kapil Raj, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Shiv Nadar University (in collaboration with the Department of Biology)
• Of Music and the Maharaja: Gender, Affect and Power in Ranjit Singh's Lahore, Dr Radha Kapuria, King's College (in collaboration with the Department of Performing Arts)