South Asia in Global History
GHCC workshop, “South Asia in Global History”
4 June 2025, MB0.07, Mathematical Sciences Building
09.15 Welcome and coffee/tea
09.45-11.30: Masterclass Prof Sangeeta Dasgupta (JNU, Centre for Historical Studies)
"Revisiting Colonial Representations, Writing Adivasi [Indigenous Peoples] Histories"
Chair: Anne Gerritsen (Warwick, History)
11.30-11.45: Break
11.45-13.00: PGR session 1
Shankara Angadi (Warwick, History) – “Imagining India: three visions for colonial Western Karnataka between 1799 and 1813”
Alfisha Sabri (Warwick, History) – “Framing Imperial Fantasies in Hill Stations: A Study of Mussoorie's Landscape and Load-Carriers in Photographs, 1860-1920.”
Chair: Guido van Meersbergen (Warwick, History); Discussant: Sangeeta Dasgupta (JNU)
13.00-14.00: Sandwich lunch
14.00-15.15: PGR Session 2
Shreya Kaund (Warwick, History) – “Mapping Fossil Colonialism in Frontier Regions of Burma and Assam, c. 1810-1914”
Nilakshi Das (Leicester) – “Becoming a Scientist: South Asian Students in British Universities and the Making of Postcolonial Scientific Lives, 1950-2000”
Chair: Somak Biswas (Cambridge); Discussant: Sangeeta Dasgupta (JNU)
15.15-15.30: Break
15.30-17:00: Roundtable: Future Histories of Global South Asia
Participants: David Arnold (Warwick History, emeritus); Rosie Dias (Warwick, History of Art); Ritika Kaushik (Warwick, Film and Television Studies); Arun Kumar (Nottingham, History); James Poskett (Warwick, History); Rashna Nicholson (Warwick, Theatre and Performance Studies; Aditya Sarkar (Warwick, History); Uditi Sen (Nottingham, History).
Chair: Tom Simpson (Warwick, History)
pre-readings -
The Oraons of Chhotanagpur: A journey through colonial ethnography