Category :(B. N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture)

Janaki Nair delivered the 23rd B. N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture on ‘Ways of Being Modern: The Making of the Mysore Matha as ‘anadhikrita sarkara’ on 25 March 2022 via Zoom. It was chaired by Prathama Banerjee. B. N. Ganguli Memorial Lectures are held in memory of the

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Naomi S. Baron delivered a lecture on ‘When Reading Goes Digital: Questions of Medium and Mindset’ on 11 March 2022 via Zoom. It was chaired by Baidik Bhattacharya. Research on print versus digital reading–and on reading more generally 

Category :(Audio)

In this episode, Prathama Banerjee speaks to Faisal Devji on the post Cold War phenomenon of Islamism. What is the historical relationship of Islamism with colonialism, liberalism, anarchism, communism, nationalism?  What has been the changing role of theology in twentieth and twenty first century global politics? 

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Mukulika Banerjee delivered a lecture on ‘Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India’ on 8 March 2022 via Zoom. It was chaired by Ravi Sundaram. This lecture presented anthropological study of democracy in India. 

Category :(Announcements)

A conference on ‘Timely Histories’ is being organized by CSDS, Delhi and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin on 12-14 October 2022 (Tentative). It is part of the 5-year ERC project ‘Timely Histories: A Social History of Time in South Asia’