Category :(Golden Jubilee Lecture)

Lydia H. Liu delivered a Golden Jubilee lecture on ‘Shadows of Universalism: The Untold Story of Human Rights Around 1948’ on 19 March 2014 at CSDS. This is the story of how the postwar norms of human rights confronted the classical standard

Category :(Golden Jubilee Lecture)

Romila Thapar delivered a golden Jubilee Lecture on ‘Representations of the Past in Early North India’ on 5 March 2014 at CSDS. Societies remember their pasts in diverse ways and their representations take various forms. Among them some.

Category :(Lecture)

Mehr Afshan Farooqi delivered a talk on ‘The Nightingale of Future’s Garden: Reflections on the “Rejected” Corpus of Ghalib’ on 4 March 2014 at CSDS. The talk presented an overview of the so called discarded ghazals and.

Category :(Announcements)

‘Researching the Contemporary' is a two-month Course that would be held at CSDS in the months of July-August 2014. This cross-disciplinary Course will critically examine the formation of the contemporary and its multiple histories, ideologies

Category :(Lecture)

William R. Pinch delivered a special lecture on ‘When was Caste? Some reflections on early modern South Asia’ at CSDS on 27 February 2014. This lecture was part of the conference on ‘The Caste Question and the Historian’s Craft’