Mughal Banaras: An Exploration

Speaker: Malavika Kasturi, Associate Professor (South Asian History), Departments of History and the Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto and with author of Embattled Identities, Rajput Lineages and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century North India (OUP, 2002). Prof. Kasturi is working on the urban history of Banaras from the eighteenth century from the perspective of Mughal pensioner families

The illustrated lecture will explore the lesser-known history of Banaras through the legacy of exiles and pensioners from the eighteenth century, especially Mughal princes like Jahandar Shah and his descendents.

Chair: Dr. Yaaminey Mubayi