"Texts, Instruments, Experts: Practices of knowledge-production in colonial South Asia" a Workshop at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 2pm on 18th December 2014

Time : 2:00 pm Add to Calendar 18-12-2014 14:00:00 18-12-2014 15:30:00 68 "Texts, Instruments, Experts: Practices of knowledge-production in colonial South Asia" a Workshop Event Page : http://goo.gl/9ALHyf Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011 DD/MM/YYYY

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

Venue : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, 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 Workshop on "Texts, Instruments, Experts: Practices of knowledge-production in colonial
South Asia"

Speakers : 
Priyankar Dey, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.
‘”Is that not a kind of Yoga?” Jagadis Chunder Bose and his spontaneous machines’

Dr. Aparajith Ramnath, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode.
‘Steel, Planes, and Engineers: Indian industry’s American connection, c. 1920 – 1950’

Parnisha Sarkar, Doctoral Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
‘Material that Remains: Preserving the trace in the Imperial Record Department, c. 1915-1941’

Charu Singh, Doctoral Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
‘Astrology, Prediction and Cultural Authority: Publishing Jyotishastra in Hindi’

Chair : Dr. Rohan Deb Roy, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

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