UoH History Lectures
UoH History Webinar Series Lectures
- Dr. Vivek V. Narayan (Ashoka University, Sonepat), “Caste Scripts: Performance notes on the interactions between code, material and behaviour in Modern” on 17 February 2022.
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VJNyBvmkTE&t=3614s - Dr. Arunima Datta (Idaho State University, USA), Book talk “Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya” (Cambridge University Press) on 21 October 2021.
- Dr. Malini Sur (Western Sydney University, Australia), Book talk “Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility and Citizenship at the Northeast India- Bangladesh Border” (University of Pennsylvania Press) Discussant: Prof. Chandan Kumar Sharma (Tezpur University) on 23 September 2021.
- Prof. Prasannan Parthasarathi (Professor and Chairperson of History, Boston College), “The Great Divergence Debate” (a joint initiative of the Department of History and the School of Economics) on 15 July 2021.
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwfK71Za49U&t=694s - Prof. Rajan Gurukkal ((Vice-Chairman, Kerala State Higher Education Council and Former Vice-Chancellor, M.G. University, Kottayam), “Historians’ Macro Civilization and Archaeologists’ Micro Cultures” on 25 June 2021.
- Dr. Vijaya Ramadas M (Department of History, University of Hyderabad), “Colonialism, Education and the Spatial Dimension of Play in Modern India, 1790-1910” on 8 April 2021.
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDjitlJ-p1s - Dr. Rama Mantena (University of Illinois, Chicago), “Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire: Anticolonialism and Federation in Twentieth-Century South India” on 15 March 2021.
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHRGr88Kqw4&list=PLpht2Nnjpu8I1doq53-_cliehjRsIjqaE - Crispin Bates (University of Edinburgh), “North Indian Overseas Labour Migration in the Colonial Era: Origins, Intermediaries and the Role of Trust” on 11 February 2021.
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDcyeAHcv8&list=PLpht2Nnjpu8I1doq53-_cliehjRsIjqaE&index=2 - Christopher Pinney (University College of London), “Contingency, Future and Ethics: Photographic ethnographies form south Asia” on 3 December 2020.
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyQ9BiqcGsg - Ajay Skaria (University of Minnesota), “Democracy and Fearlessness: Thinking with Gandhi” on 26 November, 2020.
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ90VL6QHtI - Prof. S. Irfan Habib (National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration), “Maulana Azad, Islam and Nationalism” on 12 November 2020.
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZZQ0qXqGmg&t=476s - Prof. Samita Sen (Vere Hemsworth Professor in Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge, UK), “Slavery, Bondage and Wage Labour: Trends in women’s work in India in the nineteenth century” on 22 October 2020.
YouTube link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NijoL_H0ss&t=8s - Prof. Tanika Sarkar (Professor -retired, JNU, New Delhi, “Caste and Gender in Bengal’s Domestic Service: How Masters and Servants Choose to Portray their Relationship” on 29 October 2020.
YouTube link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F6r_71UylY&t=5567s - Prof. Prathama Banerjee (Professor, CSDS, Delhi), “Kings, Jurists, Ascetics, Outcastes: Discontinuous Histories of Sovereignty in India” on 15 October 2020.
YouTube link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5lfssqH7HU&t=4643s - Dr. Prashant Kidambi (University of Leicester, UK), “Cricket Country: The Untold History of the First all India Team (OUP / Penguin)” on 24 September 2020.
YouTube link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLFH0p8BOpk&t=5982s - Dr. Rajesh Venkatasubramanian (IISER Mohali), “Regional Lives of Progressivism: The Tamil Experience” on 1o September 2020.
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/tB4KZ3FxwIQ - Dr. Manu V. Devadevan (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi), “The Time of Rasa and the Time of Bhava: Kannada Word-scape in Transition, ca. 900-1200 CE” on 03 September 2020.
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/HhMmrrAk_uw - Prof. Malavika Kasturi (Dept. of Historical Studies, University of Toronto, Canada), “Debating Ramrajya and Caste in Nehruvian India: Reflecting on Swami Karpatri” on 27 August 2020.
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/YWE1JXe8wVY - Mahalakshmi Ramakrishnan (CHS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi). “Dance in Early Tamilakam: Forms, Patronage and Institutionalization” on 20 August 2020.
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/4ReLkXJGt5w - Prof. Kunal Chakrabarti (Formerly with CHS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), “History in the Proper Sense of the Term’: Rabindranath Tagore’s Reflections on India’s Past” on 13 August 2020.
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/iU5Makmy2zo - Michiel Baas (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Book talk on “Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility and the New Middle Class (Context, 2020)” on 06 August 2020.
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/vlBAOYFdZVI - Aloka Parasher Sen (Professor Emeritus, University of Hyderabad, India). “Remembering the Past, Writing History – The Fragile Archive” on 31 July 2020.
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/iuwvOIWK4TM - Nisha P. R. (Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study, Johannesburg, South Africa). Book talk on“Jumbos and Jumping Devils: A Social History of Indian Circus (Oxford University Press, 2020)” on 24 July 2020.
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/lH0b47f33Yg - S Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan (Ashoka University, India). “Nature’s Pasts: History, Ecology and Society in India” on 10 July 2020.
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/7zaKwZxjQhs - Dilip M. Menon (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), “Walking on Water: Globalization and History” on 03 July 2020.
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/KIlkMpTYT34 - Ines G. Zupanov (CNRS, Paris, France).“From Error to Sainthood: Jesuit Missionary Communicative Setting in the Sixteenth Century India,” on 26 June 2020.
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/EZhOrFvBlko - Bhangya Bhukya (University of Hyderabad, India), “The Lost Ground: Shades of Adivasi Collective Rights in India” on 19 June 2020.
YouTube link:https://youtu.be/SUt05kiRAaE
- Dr. Vivek V. Narayan (Ashoka University, Sonepat), “Caste Scripts: Performance notes on the interactions between code, material and behaviour in Modern” on 17 February 2022.