29 June 2020, 05:30 am
Colonial Crossings: Rethinking Connectivities across the Bay of Bengal
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Dr. Jayati Bhattacharya, Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore
Introduced by Ms. Claudia Chia Yi En, South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore
This lecture will focus on the historical connectivities across the Bay of Bengal in the colonial period, particularly the 19th and 20th centuries, and propose to highlight the alternative frameworks of mobility and exchanges through participation of Indian business communities in the intra-Asian economic and diasporic networks that prevailed, but was less visible in the dominant Euro-centric narrative across global transit points, port cities and the China trade routes.
Introduced by Ms. Claudia Chia Yi En, South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore
This lecture will focus on the historical connectivities across the Bay of Bengal in the colonial period, particularly the 19th and 20th centuries, and propose to highlight the alternative frameworks of mobility and exchanges through participation of Indian business communities in the intra-Asian economic and diasporic networks that prevailed, but was less visible in the dominant Euro-centric narrative across global transit points, port cities and the China trade routes.
