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Lunch in honor of Sanjiv Saraf, the main inspiration behind the Urdu festival, Jashn-e-Rekhta. Organized and hosted by Muzaffar Alam, Dipesh Charkabarty, and Elena Bashir. Dates: Friday, November 9, 2018 - 12:30pm Foster 103

An Archaeology of the Virtues: Conversion and the History of the Khanzada of Mewat

TAPSA: Mudit Trivedi, doctoral candidate in Anthropology A short distance south of Delhi, nestled in the Mewat hills are the remains of the fort-city of Indor. This city was founded in the fourteenth century CE by a lineage who came to call themselves the Khanzada...

Kazi Nazrul Islam and the Partition of Bengal: A Language of Unity, a Language of Loss

TAPSA: Ahona Panda, doctoral candidate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations Arguably the most successful poet and music composer appealing to both Hindus and Muslims equally in undivided and divided Bengal, Kazi Nazrul Islam was the singular voice of an...

Self-Determination and the Minority Question in Colonial India

TAPSA: Tejas Parasher, doctoral candidate in Political Science Between the late 1800s and the early 1950s, South Asian politics were dominated by demands for elected representative government. These demands were made by nationalists challenging British colonial...

From Pulavar to Professor: The Changing Status of the Tamil Pandit

South Asia Seminar: A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Madras Institute of Development Studies "From Pulavar to Professor: The Changing Status of the Tamil Pandit" This paper traces the changing status of Tamil pulavars or pandits in colonial Tamil Nadu. Following Macaulay's...

‘Harishchandra Chāritra’ and the Medieval Shaiva Literary Canon in Kannada

South Asia Seminar: Vanamala Viswanatha, Azim Premji University Harishchandra Chāritra, or Harishchandra Kāvya, as more popularly known in Kannada literary culture, (The Life of Harishchandra, Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press, 2017) was...

UChicago Presents Hosts Music Without Borders

Carnatic vocalist TM Krishna is a revolutionary force in Indian classical music and art. Born to musical parents, Krishna grew up in Brahmin society, surrounded by the traditional arts and educated by gurus of Carnatic musical form and style. Now one of India’s...

Old World, New World; Old Ways, New Ways: Libraries and Cultural Property

South Asia Seminar: Graham Shaw, British Library [Celebrating the Career of James Nye Dinner Following, Classics 110] In this talk, Graham Shaw will offer a review of the ways in which South Asian collections in the West - Europe and America - have developed from...

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