The book discussion will commence on 22 October 2024 (Tuesday) at 4:00 PM IST in the Conference Room, CSPS Office.  Seating is limited, so please register to secure your spot.

About the Co-editor:

Prof. Sutapa Dutta is a Professor of English at Gargi College, University of Delhi. Her research interests and publications are focused on 18th- and 19th-century writings and cover gender, education and identity in colonial India.  She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London, and held a fellowship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, from 2018 to 2020. Dutta has authored British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793–1861 and edited British Women Travellers: Empire and Beyond, 1770–1870. She co-edited Mapping India: Transitions and Transformations, 18th–19th Century. Her most recent book is Disciplined Subjects: Schooling in Colonial Bengal.

Dr. Shivangini Tandon is an Assistant Professor in History at Women’s College, Aligarh Muslim University. Her research interests include Early modern South Asian history, Feminist theory and questions of Language. She did her B.A. and M.A. from St. Stephen’s College, PhD in History from Delhi University and is a former Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany. She has been invited to many national/international forums as a speaker. Her articles have been published in edited books and journals like the Indian Historical Review, Journal of South Asian History & Culture and by Nehru Memorial, New Delhi. She is the recipient of prestigious fellowships/awards like the Max Planck India Mobility Grant, the Sanwa Bank Scholarship and the ICHR foreign travel grant.

About the discussant:

Prof. Simi Malhotra is a Professor and former Head of the Department of English, and Former Director of the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research at Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. She is an expert in literary and cultural theory, with a focus on postmodernism, globalization, and the intersection of media and politics, alongside an interest in folk cultural forms. Her recent publications include Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation and Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges (both 2021, Springer), as well as the co-authored Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization (2021, Würzburg University Press). Her research interests span contemporary literary and cultural theory, globalization, popular culture, politics, and folk traditions.

About the Chair:

Prof. Farhat Hasan, a professor of Medieval and Early Modern South Asian history at the University of Delhi, holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge, where he received a Commonwealth Scholarship. His research focuses on the political culture and literary trends of the Mughal Empire, as well as Indo-Muslim politics and culture during the colonial period. He has authored several influential works, including Voices in Verses: Women’s Poetry and Cultural Memory in Nineteenth Century India (2024) and Paper, Performance and the State: Social Change and the Political Culture in Mughal India (2021), both published by Cambridge University Press. Hasan has also contributed extensively to national and international journals and has held prestigious fellowships and editorial roles.