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photo of India Soldiers
South Asia Seminar

Printing the Urdu public: Madinah newspaper and lithography as a Muslim Techology

Megan Eaton Robb (Pennsylvania)
18 May 2021 - 2:00pm
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This talk will discuss how a small-town Newspaper used lithographic technology to cast a significant slice of Urdu journalism conversation as distinctively Muslim. Discussing a chapter of the... Read more
Maharana Sangram Singh II at the Gangaur Boat Procession, c. 1715–20, Udaipur. Gouache and gold on paper, 78.7 x 78.74 cm. The City Palace Museum, Udaipur; 2012.19.0014_R. Photography courtesy of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smi
South Asia Seminar

The place of many moods: Udaipur's painted lands and India's eighteenth century

Dipti Khera (NYU)
11 May 2021 - 2:00pm
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As Mughal imperial authority weakened by the late 1600s and the British colonial economy became paramount by the 1830s, new patrons and mobile professionals reshaped urban cultures and artistic... Read more
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South Asia Seminar

Maoists, peasant rebellion and state formation in post-colonial Northwest Pakistan

Noaman G Ali (LUMS)
4 May 2021 - 2:00pm
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This paper examines how the encounter of radical activism and peasant militancy reshaped economic and political relations—indeed, the forms and functions of informal and state institutions—in... Read more