Abstract:
Patent Act extended to colonial India in 1859 introduced to Indians the right to file a patent for an invention. The article locates India as a site for invention and innovation, not by looking at the legal evolution of the law or... more
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Patent Act extended to colonial India in 1859 introduced to Indians the right to file a patent for an invention. The article locates India as a site for invention and innovation, not by looking at the legal evolution of the law or... more
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This talk will revisit the work of the Subaltern Studies [SS] group by attending to the "subaltern intimation of freedom." Retrospectively, we can see that the emergence of Subaltern Studies is itself part of the... more
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In this talk I suggest that initial thinking on Indian atmospheres in modern times was framed within a climate discourse and was concerned largely with issues of heat and humidity. Towards the middle of the 19thc, black smoke... more
Abstract: This lecture explores the structure of what WEB Du Bois calls the "color line," examining its moral logic along two vectors: an infrapolitical form that uses juridical and civic norms to make inequality hurt; and an... more
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Being Hindu, Being Indian undertakes a systematic intellectual study of Lala Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought through four decades of his active political life, between 1888 and 1928. It contests the dominant scholarly... more
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Grammar as unlocking our pasts
Two cases will be taken up to show that our present is highly fractured:
(i) The puzzle of a Dravidian-Tibeto-Burman axis in terms of grammatical
structures with the exclusion of... more
Brazil and India: cultural, artistic and theatrical dialogues and exchanges
Speaker: Ana Beatriz Gomez Pestana
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This conversation aims to be a collective space for exchanges, dialogues and reflections about Indian... more
Register for an Open House for MA Culture, Society, Thought to be held on 15-16 March 2024.
The In Person Open House will be held on 15 March 2024. Details of venue etc. will be sent to all registered participants.
The Online Open... more