Smuts Commonwealth Lecture - Empire and the Historical Imagination in Colonial India
- đ¤ Speaker: Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 18 October 2011, 17:00 - 18:30
- đ Venue: Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane
Abstract
This lecture will focus on the question of how the modern academic discipline of history travelled to India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and gave rise to a fundamentally anachronistic and utopian understanding of the eighteenth century among nationalist historians.
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Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
Tuesday 18 October 2011, 17:00-18:30