"Pelagic Passageways: Introducing the northern Bay of Bengal as Regional Unit" lecture by Prof. Rila Mukherjee at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 22nd May 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on 'Pelagic Passageways: Introducing the northern Bay of Bengal as Regional Unit' by Prof. Rila Mukherjee, Director, Institute de Chandernagor, West Bengal.
Abstract : Maritime historians have usually regarded the Bay of Bengal as a composite unit. Their studies tend to emphasize South Asia-South East Asia interactions, the Chola expansion, and the eleventh century trade revolution. These studies tend to privilege the southern Bay of Bengal, and by consequence, peninsular India.
My point of departure will be the northern Bay of Bengal, the littoral of which washes north Orissa, the western and southeastern deltas of Bengal and the Arakan (now within Myanmar) coast. This vast littoral comprises also networks with at least three landlocked regions: the northeast of India (the Tripuri, Dimasa and Ahom states – not usually seen as part of maritime history), the medieval capital of Ava in present Myanmar, and Yunnan (now in China), which we will explore through the conceptual formulations of zomia (Van Schendel, 2002, Scott, 2009, and the special issue on zomia in the Journal of Global History, 2010) and the southwestern kauri and silk route (Bin Yang, 2004).
At first privileging the northern Bay of Bengal as a regional unit may seem an extraordinary claim for we are talking about 4 modern nation states: India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and China, with different geographical, linguistic, religious and cultural traditions. But Pelagic Passageways makes the case for a positive answer.
Speaker : Prof. Rila Mukherjee, Director, Institute de Chandernagor, West Bengal, is also Professor of History at the University of Hyderabad. She is the author of Merchants and Companies in Bengal: Kasimbazar and Jugdia in the Eighteenth Century (2006), Strange Riches: Bengal in the Mercantile Map of South Asia (2006) and, more recently, Networks in the first Global Age 1400-1600(2011) and Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal before Colonialism (2011).
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on 'Pelagic Passageways: Introducing the northern Bay of Bengal as Regional Unit' by Prof. Rila Mukherjee, Director, Institute de Chandernagor, West Bengal.
Abstract : Maritime historians have usually regarded the Bay of Bengal as a composite unit. Their studies tend to emphasize South Asia-South East Asia interactions, the Chola expansion, and the eleventh century trade revolution. These studies tend to privilege the southern Bay of Bengal, and by consequence, peninsular India.
My point of departure will be the northern Bay of Bengal, the littoral of which washes north Orissa, the western and southeastern deltas of Bengal and the Arakan (now within Myanmar) coast. This vast littoral comprises also networks with at least three landlocked regions: the northeast of India (the Tripuri, Dimasa and Ahom states – not usually seen as part of maritime history), the medieval capital of Ava in present Myanmar, and Yunnan (now in China), which we will explore through the conceptual formulations of zomia (Van Schendel, 2002, Scott, 2009, and the special issue on zomia in the Journal of Global History, 2010) and the southwestern kauri and silk route (Bin Yang, 2004).
At first privileging the northern Bay of Bengal as a regional unit may seem an extraordinary claim for we are talking about 4 modern nation states: India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and China, with different geographical, linguistic, religious and cultural traditions. But Pelagic Passageways makes the case for a positive answer.
Speaker : Prof. Rila Mukherjee, Director, Institute de Chandernagor, West Bengal, is also Professor of History at the University of Hyderabad. She is the author of Merchants and Companies in Bengal: Kasimbazar and Jugdia in the Eighteenth Century (2006), Strange Riches: Bengal in the Mercantile Map of South Asia (2006) and, more recently, Networks in the first Global Age 1400-1600(2011) and Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal before Colonialism (2011).
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"Pelagic Passageways: Introducing the northern Bay of Bengal as Regional Unit" lecture by Prof. Rila Mukherjee at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 22nd May 2012
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