the Society's Mumbai Research Centre's research methodology course comes to an end, a special valedictory lecture "The Historian's Craft Revisited" will be delivered by Prof. Arvind Ganachari at the Durbar Hall. All are invited.
Greetings from the Asiatic Society on the occasion of Independence Day
We wish you a happy 75th Independence Day!
We are pleased to share with you some pages from the Times of India and the Bombay Chronicle from 15 August 1947, marking 75 years of Independence. Flipbook: https://www.flipsnack.com/iambecomedeath_2/pages-of-freedom.html
PDF for download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EcvKk_VJ4JoCFFjrKbT1BuCYDJEzdwUP/view?usp=sharing
How many of the headlines, news articles and advertisements do you find familiar? Do you know of others that could have been included? We would love to hear from you, so do write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
With Regards and Best Wishes for Independence Day, and a bright future for our country.
- Prof. Mangala Sirdeshpande, Officiating Hon. Secretary Asiatic Society of Mumbai
The lateritic plateau of the southern Konkan (Sada) is home to potentially thousands of petroglyphs — drawings etched into stone. Representing humans, animals, plants and abstractions, these are silent sentinels of a culture that has long vanished. Yet their continuing sacredness to the residents talk of cultural continuity that has lasted millennia. Since 2018, the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Maharashtra has worked with amateur and professional rockart enthusiasts, archaeologists and local residents to document and conserve these petroglyphs and promote sustainabletourism around them. The efforts have culminated in UNESCO listing them in its tentative list of WorldHeritageSites.
The Mumbai Research Centre of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai presents a free public lecture by Dr. Jehangir Sorabjee titled "Bombay @ 75 — A visual sweep through the lost and found" on 17th August 2022 at 5 pm in the Durbar Hall. All are invited.
Itamar Toussia Cohen has a BA from the prestigious Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem with a focus on painting, sculpture, art history & theory and an MA in Middle Eastern History from Tel Aviv University with a focus on Indian Ocean History, the Global History of Labour, British Aden, and Islamic Studies. He also spent a semester as an Erasmus+ Scholar in the Department of Global History at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Since completing his Master’s, he has worked as a research assistant for a faculty member at Tel Aviv University. He is fluent in English and German in addition to his native Hebrew and has an excellent working knowledge of Gujarati and Modern Standard Arabic. He is an artist, primarily of figurative and decorative painting inspired by Arabic calligraphy, and a musician who has written, recorded, and performed original music in Tel Aviv and abroad.
Itamar studies the network infrastructures which preceded British colonialism in the Western Indian Ocean and how trade in this area was structured around kinship and community, particularly the Parsi community during the British Raj. Beyond dominant Weberian and Marxist models for explaining mercantile capitalist development, he is interested in more inclusive approaches to history which look at cultural hybridity in contrast to the tradition of national historiography that dominate Israeli academia.
The Mumbai Research Centre of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai has arranged a visit to the INS Angre Complex on Saturday, 9th July 2022 and also to the Naval Dockyard on Sunday, 17th July 2022. Both the visits are from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon and they are strictly arranged for the Members and staff of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai.
Those members who wish to attend these visits may please pay on the below link/s latest by 1st July 2022 in order to enable us to forward the names to the concerned authorities. Further please email a copy of your Aadhaar card to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
INS Angre: https://rzp.io/l/91Mdd48W
Naval Dockyard: https://rzp.io/l/t7w1oDDu
The charges are Rs.300/- per visit.
- Dr. Shehernaz Nalwalla, Chairperson Mumbai Research Centre
- Prof. Mangala Sirdeshpande, Officiating Hon. Secretary
