Events archive
South Asia Seminar
Pradip Dutta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
14 June 2016 - 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room
Vishwabharati, the university that Tagore founded, was an early experiment in producing a global habitation. While many of the ideas that motivated this institution hold out resonances for the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)
7 June 2016 - 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room
On December 15th , 1829, a large public meeting was held amidst much excitement at the Town Hall in Calcutta. The speakers, principally from the British mercantile community in Calcutta, but... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Sanghamitra Choudhury (Agatha Harrison Fellow, St Antony's College; University of Sikkim)
1 June 2016 - 4:00pm
Dahrendorf Room
The book launched at this talk analyses the impact that prolonged socio-political conflict in India has had on political and social spaces for women. Focusing in particular on Assam in the North East... Read more