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Syllable Scrambling in Dhivehi Poetry of the Maldives
South Asia Seminar: Garrett Field, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and School of Music, Ohio University The official language of the Maldives is Dhivehi, an Indo-Aryan language. Prior to the twentieth century the most popular form of Dhivehi poetry was known as...
Apur Sansar
Doc Films Screening: Apur Sansar 7pm & 9:30pm Dates: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 7:00pm Doc films 1212 E 59th St # 3, Chicago, IL 60637
India in Global Intellectual History
Once approached primarily through a regional and historical focus on Western Europe and North America, intellectual history has in recent years come to adopt an increasingly expansive, global perspective. Scholars have begun to explore the cross-fertilization of...
“A vast sea of slums”: From chawls and “insanitary villages” to zopadpattis in 20th century Bombay
South Asia Seminar: Nikhil Rao, Department of History, Wellesley College Over the course of the middle decades of the 20th century, the category “slum” underwent important changes in large, fast-growing cities like Bombay. From a descriptive term used to...
Pather Panchali
Doc Films Screening: Pather Panchali 7pm & 9:30pm Dates: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 7:00pm Doc films 1212 E 59th St # 3, Chicago, IL 60637
Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)
South Asia Seminar: Keya Ganguly, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota This talk focuses on Satyajit Ray’s cinematic treatment of an episode from India’s late colonial history in Shatranj Ke Khilari (“The Chess Players,” 1977). I suggest that through...
Embodied Empiricism and the Respectability of Labour at the Madrasa Tibbiya Delhi
TAPSA: Sabrina Datoo, Department of History, University of Chicago This paper elucidates how the mores of the north Indian service-gentry were implicated in the reformation of Avicennian medicine in colonial India. The paper focuses on a single site, the Madrasa...
Sixteenth Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference: “South Asia: The Political, the Public, the Popular”
South Asia Graduate Student Conference XVI: The Political, the Public, and the Popular For more information on the conference, including its schedule, please visit: https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/sagsc/ Fri., Mar. 8 and Sat., Mar. 9 Friday, March 8 Keynote:...
“Gate of India:” Early Modern Qandahar
Talk by Dr. Neelam Khoja. Qandahar was a borderland fort-city: the eastern most frontier for the Safavids, and western most frontier for the Mughals. As such, it was a site for contestation, and it volleyed back and forth between these two empires. Qandahar was a...