Between the Crown & Congress: Rethinking the Politics of Late Colonial India
Speaker: Dr. Anil Seal, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Co-Founder, Cambridge School of Indian History
Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC
Dr. Seal’s talk will trace the genealogy of the structure of Indian politics in the late Colonial period. He argues that the major contradiction in the British Raj lay between the administrative expedience in a fragmented empire and the lucrative nature of a centralized state with a greater extractive capacity. He maintains that while the nationalist movements across India were initially mired in more local networks, they latched on these centripetal forces, aiming at inheriting this structure, and will analyse the transfer of power in the light of this broader picture
(Collaboration: Caucus – The Discussion Forum of Hindu College)
Global Photographies: Transnationality/Regionality
Speakers: Lucy Soutter, Reader Photography, University of Westminster; Duncan Wooldridge, Reader Photography, Manchester Metropolitan University; and Tanvi Mishra, Curator/writer
Moderator: Suryanandini Narain, Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Introduction: Rahaab Allana, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts
Does contemporary photography offer strategies to rethink and reorganize our sense of the global and local? What are the shared tools, dynamic strategies and new fields of possibility for images? The talks address how ecological and decolonial discourses around photography reveal the medium’s global entanglements: images produced on one side of the world are intricately connected to the other, including by way of imperial histories, labour and migration. A multiplicity of approaches, intentions if not inferences may reveal that despite its alleged understanding as a universal language, the photograph can be deployed to serve radically different ends
(Collaboration: The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts; University of Westminster; CREAM; Manchester Metropolitan University; SODA – School of Digital Arts; and ahead – Arts and Humanities Engagement and Dialogue)