'Land as Property & River as Resource: Towards an Environmental History of the Permanent Settlement of 1793' a talk by Rohan D’Souza at Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:15pm on 28th March 2014

Time : 6:15 pm 

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Place : Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : The Lecture “Land as Property and River as Resource: Towards an Environmental History of the Permanent Settlement of 1793.” by Rohan D’Souza is part of the SHSS Inaugural Lecture Series organized by The School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), Shiv Nadar University. These are weekly public lectures delivered by the faculty members of SHSS covering their current work and research.

The permanent settlement of 1793 was undoubtedly a ruptural moment in the history of the Indian Sub-continent. For long it was debated under the themes of land settlement, rent extraction, the burdens of revenue, legal ownership, or as the political economy of the soil. Rivers on the other hand, became the technical subject of infrastructure and the biographies of engineering and control. Rohan D’Souza will argue that an environmental history of the Permanent Settlement 1793 will tell us entirely different story the transformation of an amphibian South Asia into becoming the reptilian subjects of colonial modernity.

Language: English 

About the Speaker : Rohan D’Souza is an Associate Professor in the department of History, Shiv Nadar University. He is the author of Drowned and Damned; Colonial Capitalism and Flood control in Eastern India(2006). His edited books include, The British Empire and the Natural World; Environmental Encounters in South Asia (2011) and Environment Technology and Development; Critical and Subversive Essays (2012). He has held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley. He was also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for World Environmental History (University of Sussex) and Visiting Fellow at the Resources Management Asis-Pacific (Australian National University).

Organization : Shiv Nadar University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. 
Shiv Nadar University is an international, multi-disciplinary research-led university. Located on a 286-acre campus in India's National Capital Region, the University offers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programs in a range of disciplines in engineering, humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, communication, business, and education. SNU is a private philanthropic institution established by the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 2011 through an act of the State of Uttar Pradesh.

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