[CSH Seminar] In Search of Early Modernity in South Asian History (P. Nath & M. Bhargava)

[CSH Seminar] In Search of Early Modernity in South Asian History (P. Nath & M. Bhargava)

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The Centre de Sciences Humaines is pleased to invite you to the CSH Seminar

by

Pratyay NATH

(Ashoka University)

&

Meena BHARGAVA

(Indraprastha College, D.U.)

on

In Search of Early Modernity in South Asian History

Followed by discussion with Tanika Sarkar (JNU) and Harbans Mukhia (JNU)

On

Monday, 20 November 2023, from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm IST

At
Centre de Sciences Humaines
IFI-CSH conference room (ground floor)
2 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi – 110011

To register: Please fill the Registration form


Abstract:

This event offers a critical discussion on the recent volume The Early Modern in South Asia: Querying Modernity, Periodization, and History (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Edited by Meena Bhargava and Pratyay Nath, the volume brings together ten essays. They trace the contours of South Asia’s initial phase of modernity – early modernity – during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. The essays delve into the history of philosophy, warfare, law, environment, politics, violence, religion, and society. The event brings the editors of the volume in conversation with two eminent historians of South Asia. The goal is to discuss the meanings of this early form of modernity and their implications for our understanding of South Asia past and present.

Speakers:

Pratyay Nath is an Associate Professor of History at Ashoka University. He is a historian of early modern South Asia, with a focus on the Mughal Empire. His research lies at the crossroads of environmental history, military history, and imperial history. He is the author of Climate of Conquest: War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India (Oxford University Press, 2019) and with Meena Bhargava, the co-editor of The Early Modern in South Asia: Querying Modernity, Periodization, and History (Cambridge University Press, 2022). He is one of the editors of The Medieval History Journal and of ইতিহাস প্রসঙ্গ, a history book-series in Bangla for Ananda Publishers.

Meena Bhargava is an Associate Professor (Retd) at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She is a historian of medieval and early modern South Asia. The areas of her research include Mughal history, environmental history, history of narcotics and drugs, agrarian history, and land rights in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India. Her most recent publication is Understanding Mughal India: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries (2019).

For more info contact:

joel[dot]cabalion[at]csh-delhi[dot]com

laurence[dot]gautier[at]csh-delhi[dot]com

CSH Seminars are in hybrid mode. We request you to pre-register before Monday, 20 November, 2:00 p.m. IST for both offline and online registration.

To attend at venue: Please note that the room capacity is limited. Seats will be reserved on a first come first basis. Kindly carry an ID proof to be granted access to the venue.

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