Event Archive

CSDS Brochure (click on the banner to download)

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The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies released its new brochure in 2013 which is a comprehensive record of CSDS. When we look back over the last 50 years, we can identify significant moments in the history of CSDS. In the 1960s, the Centre

Shadows of Universalism: The Untold Story of Human Rights

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

Course on ‘Researching the Contemporary' 2014

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‘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

The Nightingale of Future’s Garden

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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.

Representations of the Past in Early North India

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.

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