"The Go-between : Lalludas Desai and the politics of arbitration in early modern Gujarat" a talk by Dr. Samira Sheikh at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 11th December 2013
Time : 3:00 pm 
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Seminar on ‘The Go-between : Lalludas Desai and the politics of arbitration in early modern Gujarat’ by Dr. Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University, USA.
Abstract : Lalludas Dayaldas, the minister of the last Nawab of the little kingdom of Bharuch, was a powerful man in late eighteenth-century Gujarat. Descended from a family that had earned a reputation as revenue farmers and auditors since the reign of Shah Jahan, Lalludas ran the Nawab’s finances and negotiated with Mughal officials, the increasingly powerful Marathas, agents of the East India Company, and local figures with equal ease and flourish. After Bharuch was taken by the Company, he made himself indispensable to the new regime. In Bharuch, he was also known as a Vaishnava builder and devotee. He is said to have been a remarkable linguist, adept in Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, and Persian. Lalludas’ life has been recorded in an equally remarkable range of languages and genres: he appears in records in Persian, Gujari Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi, and English. A figure who bridged sovereignties, languages, and administrative regimes, Lalludas appears to epitomize the entrepreneurial opportunism of the period. This paper will explore ways to think about Lalludas and other such figures of his time.
Speaker : Dr. Samira Sheikh is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Forging a Region: Sultans, Traders, and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200-1500 (Oxford India, 2010), editor of An Anthology of Ismaili Literature (Institute of Ismaili Studies and IB Tauris, 2008), and co-editor (with Francesca Orsini), of After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India (Oxford India, forthcoming, 2014). She is currently working on two books: one on Vaishnavism in early modern Gujarat and another on Lalludas Dayaldas, a merchant-entrepreneur of the eighteenth century.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Seminar on ‘The Go-between : Lalludas Desai and the politics of arbitration in early modern Gujarat’ by Dr. Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University, USA.
Abstract : Lalludas Dayaldas, the minister of the last Nawab of the little kingdom of Bharuch, was a powerful man in late eighteenth-century Gujarat. Descended from a family that had earned a reputation as revenue farmers and auditors since the reign of Shah Jahan, Lalludas ran the Nawab’s finances and negotiated with Mughal officials, the increasingly powerful Marathas, agents of the East India Company, and local figures with equal ease and flourish. After Bharuch was taken by the Company, he made himself indispensable to the new regime. In Bharuch, he was also known as a Vaishnava builder and devotee. He is said to have been a remarkable linguist, adept in Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, and Persian. Lalludas’ life has been recorded in an equally remarkable range of languages and genres: he appears in records in Persian, Gujari Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi, and English. A figure who bridged sovereignties, languages, and administrative regimes, Lalludas appears to epitomize the entrepreneurial opportunism of the period. This paper will explore ways to think about Lalludas and other such figures of his time.
Speaker : Dr. Samira Sheikh is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Forging a Region: Sultans, Traders, and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200-1500 (Oxford India, 2010), editor of An Anthology of Ismaili Literature (Institute of Ismaili Studies and IB Tauris, 2008), and co-editor (with Francesca Orsini), of After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India (Oxford India, forthcoming, 2014). She is currently working on two books: one on Vaishnavism in early modern Gujarat and another on Lalludas Dayaldas, a merchant-entrepreneur of the eighteenth century.
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"The Go-between : Lalludas Desai and the politics of arbitration in early modern Gujarat" a talk by Dr. Samira Sheikh at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 11th December 2013
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