"Tamils and Greater India: Some issues of connected histories" a talk by Prof. Lakshmi Subramaniam at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 23rd October 2013

Time : 3:00 pm 

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture (in the ‘India and the wider World’ series) on ‘Tamils and Greater India: Some issues of connected histories’ by Prof. Lakshmi Subramaniam, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

Abstract : A central and distinguishing feature of connected histories is to understand and contextualise movements and intersections of people, objects, and ideas. In the course of the 19th century, especially within the framework of empire, new modalities of migration and self-representation emerged to complicate the ideas of region and identity. One such mode of representation was the idea of Greater India, which had multiple public afterlives. This paper is an attempt to ask fresh questions mostly about the afterlife of this idea, of its deployment in journalistic practice, and to investigate whether and how the Tamil experience in South East Asia was written into it in a meaningful and sustained way.

Speaker : Prof. Lakshmi Subramaniam is Professor of History at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

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