Program
Saturday, April 11
8:30-9:00am • Breakfast (Luce Hall Common Room)
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Karuna Mantena, Yale University
9:00-11:00am • Critical Biographies
Dinyar Patel, Harvard University
Dadabhai Naoroji and Colonial Bombay’s Educative Tradition: Education and Reform during the Young Bombay Movement
Christopher Moffat, University of Cambridge
Politics and the Meaning of Bhagat Singh
Roanne Kantor, University of Texas at Austin
My Heart, My Fellow Traveler: The Latin American Itineraries Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Discussant: Karuna Mantena, Yale University
11:15-1:15pm • Economies & the Reinvention of Space
Mircea Raianu, Harvard University
‘A Mass of Anomalies:’ Land, Law and Sovereignty in Jamshedpur, 1909-present
Nishpriha Thakur, Shiv Nadar University
Market Spaces as Markers of Social Segregation: Locating the Spatial Segregation in Surat through the Ethnography of Markets
Diksha Dhar, The English and Foreign Languages University
Deciphering Identity in Calcutta: A Spatio-Temporal Reading of the Maidan
Discussant: Benjamin R. Siegel, Boston University
1:30pm • Lunch (Luce Hall Common Room)
2:30-4:30pm • Credit, Commodities & Markets
Hayden Kantor, Cornell University
Temporary Schemes, Tenuous Livelihoods: Articulations of Precariousness in Rural Bihar
Vanessa Chishti, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Producing Paradise: Kashmir’s Shawl Economy and the Politics of Representation c.1770-c.1900
Aditi Saraf, Johns Hopkins University
Ellipses of Exchange: Credit without End in Srinagar’s Wholesale Market
Discussant: Julia Stephens, Yale University
Sunday, April 12
9:00-11:00am • Aspirational Identities
Leya Mathew, University of Pennsylvania
The Politics of Hope: School “choice”, English, and Inequality in Liberalizing Kerala
Ethiraj Dattatreyan, University of Pennsylvania
Imaging Cosmopolitanism: Immaterial Labor and Delhi, India’s Emerging Youth Culture Industry
Elizabeth Ann Mount, Syracuse University
Hierarchy, “Human Rights,” and Hijra Communities in South India
Discussant: Tariq Thachil, Yale University
11:15-1:55pm • Technologies of Mediation
Madhumita Lahiri, University of Michigan
Sound and the Social Film: Bombay Cinema and its 1930s Audiences
Nikhil Menon, Princeton University
Computing India: Statistics, Computers and India’s Planned Future
Rijuta Mehta, Brown University
The Repatriation Portrait: Women at the End of Empire
Aparajita Mukhopadhyay, Salisbury University
Lost in Transit: Railway Crimes and the Regime of Control in Colonial India
Discussant: Tejaswini Ganti, New York University
3:00– 3:45 PM • Closing Remarks
Rohit De, Yale University
Kathryn Hardy, Yale University