TALK "A European Library in Nineteenth-century India: The Enlightenment world of King Serfoji II of Tanjore" at Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 18th October 2016

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 18/10/2016 18:30 18/10/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK "A European Library in Nineteenth-century India: The Enlightenment world of King Serfoji II of Tanjore" Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/10/talk-european-library-in-nineteenth.html Seminar Rooms - II & III, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Seminar Rooms - II & III, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : TALK "A European Library in Nineteenth-century India: The Enlightenment world of King Serfoji II of Tanjore"

Speaker: Professor Indira Viswanathan Peterson, Professor of Asian Studies Emerita, Mount Holyoke College, U.S.A. and American Institute of Indian Studies and National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow 2016

Chair: Prof. Romila Thapar

Prof. Peterson’s major publications include: Poems to ?iva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints, Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court Epic: The Kir?t?rjun?ya of Bh?ravi, and Arjuna and the Hunter, the first complete English translation of the Sanskrit literary epic Kir?t?rjun?ya, in the Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press (2016). She has recently completed Scholar-king of Tanjore: Serfoji II and Indian Modernity, an intellectual biography of a remarkable early 19th century South Indian ruler Serfoji II; in progress is the monograph Drama, the Court, and the Public in Early Modern India 

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