"Writing the City: Reflections on the 'urban turn' in South Asian historiography" a talk by Dr. Prashant Kidambi at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 13th January 2014
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture (in the ‘Cities in History’ series) on ‘Writing the City: Reflections on the ‘urban turn’ in South Asian historiography’ by Dr. Prashant Kidambi, University of Leicester, UK.
Abstract : Recent years have seen an upsurge of academic interest in the contemporary Indian city. This ‘urban turn’ raises important questions about the relationship between postcolonial urbanism – studied largely by anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, political scientists – and colonial urbanism, primarily the preserve of historical scholarship. This paper argues that recent writings on colonial urbanism have opened up possibilities for a more productive dialogue between the past and the present in the study of modern Indian cities. It does so in two ways. The first section explores how narratives of ‘crisis’ have framed discourses about the modern India city at key junctures in the colonial and postcolonial eras. The second part of the paper takes a more thematic approach, and draws out ways in which scholarly reappraisals of power, space and identities in the colonial city render problematic entrenched assumptions about the contrast between the ‘turbulent’ postcolonial city and its sedate predecessor.
Speaker : Dr. Prashant Kidambi is Director, Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester, UK. After acquiring his initial training as a historian at the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, Dr. Kidambi completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford. Dr. Kidambi’s research has focused primarily on the history of colonial Bombay, a topic on which he has published extensively. In addition to articles in international journals and edited collections, he has a published a major study, The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 (Aldershot, 2007). Dr. Kidambi’s other research interests include the social history of cricket in India. He is currently completing a book on the history of the first ‘Indian’ cricket tour of Great Britain in 1911, an intriguing story peopled by an improbable cast of princes, Parsis and plebieans that casts interesting light on the interplay between sport, nation and empire.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture (in the ‘Cities in History’ series) on ‘Writing the City: Reflections on the ‘urban turn’ in South Asian historiography’ by Dr. Prashant Kidambi, University of Leicester, UK.
Abstract : Recent years have seen an upsurge of academic interest in the contemporary Indian city. This ‘urban turn’ raises important questions about the relationship between postcolonial urbanism – studied largely by anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, political scientists – and colonial urbanism, primarily the preserve of historical scholarship. This paper argues that recent writings on colonial urbanism have opened up possibilities for a more productive dialogue between the past and the present in the study of modern Indian cities. It does so in two ways. The first section explores how narratives of ‘crisis’ have framed discourses about the modern India city at key junctures in the colonial and postcolonial eras. The second part of the paper takes a more thematic approach, and draws out ways in which scholarly reappraisals of power, space and identities in the colonial city render problematic entrenched assumptions about the contrast between the ‘turbulent’ postcolonial city and its sedate predecessor.
Speaker : Dr. Prashant Kidambi is Director, Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester, UK. After acquiring his initial training as a historian at the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, Dr. Kidambi completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford. Dr. Kidambi’s research has focused primarily on the history of colonial Bombay, a topic on which he has published extensively. In addition to articles in international journals and edited collections, he has a published a major study, The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 (Aldershot, 2007). Dr. Kidambi’s other research interests include the social history of cricket in India. He is currently completing a book on the history of the first ‘Indian’ cricket tour of Great Britain in 1911, an intriguing story peopled by an improbable cast of princes, Parsis and plebieans that casts interesting light on the interplay between sport, nation and empire.
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"Writing the City: Reflections on the 'urban turn' in South Asian historiography" a talk by Dr. Prashant Kidambi at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 13th January 2014
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