How do we pursue historical subjects marginalized by the traditional historical archive? This paper explores photography as a medium which may enable us to reframe the picture we have of the past from traditional historical records. Focusing on photographs taken of women at work in the Bombay Presidency’s second city, Ahmedabad, we consider the ethical possibilities of this extraordinary modern material artifact and its implications for new historical narratives.
Sarmaya Talks
Friday, 17th February 2023
Sarmaya Arts Foundation is excited to host its series, Sarmaya Talks at the Durbar Hall, The Asiatic Society of Mumbai on Friday, 17th February, 2023 from 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Sarmaya Talks is a space for conversations where we invite scholars, authors and experts to speak on a topic of their choice, introducing our audience to a wide range of subjects from art, culture and history. We have hosted a diverse range of speakers including Ira Mukhoty, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Rana Safvi, Madhavi Menon, Bijoy Jain, V Sriram, Manu Pillai, Devdutt Pattanaik and Javed Akhtar. Sarmaya Talks is a two speaker format event.
Our sessions for the evening are:
The Deccan: Medieval India’s Forgotten Superpower by Anirudh Kanisetti
The Tempestuous Life & Times of Rajaraja and the Cholas by Kamini Dandapani
17th February, 2023 (Friday)
6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Durbar Hall
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
Anirudh Kanisetti is the award-winning author of Lords of the Deccan, a new history of medieval South India. He received the Tata Literature Live! Best Nonfiction Book of the Year award in 2022, and was featured in THE WEEK’s 40 Under 40 list for India’s most promising creatives, as well as Open The Magazine’s Open Minds 2022 Soft Power list. Anirudh’s research has received grants from the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities and the India Foundation for the Arts. His writings and work have been featured in The Hindu, The New Indian Express, and LiveMint, among others. He writes the popular Thinking Medieval column for The Print. Anirudh was formerly Editor at the Museum of Art and Photography and Associate Fellow at the Takshashila Institution. He hosts two popular and critically acclaimed podcasts – Echoes of India and Yuddha.
Kamini Dandapani was born and raised in (once) sleepy Madras. She now lives in the city that never sleeps, New York. She has had extensive training in Carnatic music, Bharata Natyam and Western Classical music (Pianoforte). A longer-than-desired stint in the corporate world that included Chase Manhattan Bank and McKinsey & Co. was followed by a complete change in direction back to her true loves, top among which are music and writing.
Link for registration: https://docs.
ASM has received the Sakaal Sanmaan Award, from the Sakkal group of newspapers for its outstanding work in digitization & conservation of it's rich resources
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The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
Mumbai Research Centre
Cricket Country by Dr. Prashant Kidambi
Lecture 1: 7 pm to 8.40 pm, 31 January 2023
Lecture 2: 7 pm to 8.40 pm, 7 February 2023
on Zoom | Charges Rs.500/-
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Cricket Country is the untold story of how the idea of India was fashioned on the cricket pitch in the high noon of empire. Conceived by an unlikely coalition of imperial and Indian elites, it took twelve years and three failed attempts before an ‘Indian’ cricket team made its debut on the playing fields of imperial Britain in the blazing coronation summer of 1911. This is a capacious tale with an improbable cast of characters set against the backdrop of revolutionary protest and princely intrigue. My talk, which is in two parts, will highlight key episodes in this extraordinary story and illuminate a fascinating and formative period in the history of Indian cricket.
Prashant Kidambi is associate professor of colonial urban history at the University of Leicester. After completing postgraduate degrees in history at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to pursue a doctorate at the University of Oxford. Kidambi’s research explores the interface between British imperialism and the history of modern South Asia. He is the author of The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 and the lead editor of Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos.
To register: https://rzp.io/l/Kidambi
- Dr. Shehernaz Nalwalla, Chairperson
- Prof. Mangala Sirdeshpande, Hon. Secretary
