LILA-PRISM Special Lecture "Extending Indian History into Britain: Indians in England, 17th-19th centuries" a talk by Prof. Michael H Fisher at Amaltas Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm-8:30pm on 27th September 2013

Time : 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
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Place : Amaltas Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : LILA-PRISM Special Lecture 'Extending Indian History into Britain: Indians in England, 17th-19th centuries' a talk by Prof. Michael H Fisher.
Men and women from India have been visiting and settling in Europe for four centuries. Their diverse lives and what they wrote and published has affected the course of both Indian and European history.  This illustrated talk will consider some of the rich variety of experiences and effects of the earliest Indians who travelled to England, thus extending Indian history to include Britain.

About the Speaker : Michael H. Fisher holds the Danforth Chair in History at Oberlin College, USA.  His research explores the social, cultural, and political interactions between Indians and Europeans, in India and in Europe, from the 16th century onward.  Among his books are: Migration: A World History (Oxford University Press 2013), The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo Indian M.P. and Chancery ‘Lunatic’ (co-published, London: Hurst; New York: Oxford University Press; Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2010), Across the Three Seas: Travellers Tales from Mughal India (New Delhi: Random House, 2007), and The First Indian Author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland, and England (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Moderator : Prof. Jonathan Gil Harris
Jonathan Gil Harris, Professor of English at Ashoka University, will introduce the speaker and moderate the discussion. Jonathan Gil Harris is interested in early modern understandings of globalization and the foreign, and how these have helped shape our knowledge and experiences of bodies, disease, commerce, time, and religious difference. His latest books include Shakespeare and Literary Theory (Oxford UP, 2010), and Marvellous Repossessions: The Tempest, Globalization, and the Waking Dream of Paradise (Ronsdale, 2012). He is also the editor of Indography: Writing the “Indian” in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2012). His new book, The First Firangis: How to Be Authentically Indian, will be published by Aleph Books in 2014.

Background : LILA PRISM Lecture Series 2013 is an attempt to explore some major fields of knowledge in the developmental context of contemporary India. This initiative is already finding support and following in India and abroad. The 16 speakers, beyond rigorously discussing their specific topics, will share with us the dream of a society in which creative efforts and meaningful results are integrally connected. They will not only pose key questions that must awaken policy makers, but also share their suggestions to link their disciplinary sites with the lives of common people, in a non-intrusive and creative way.

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