CHAMPARAN CENTENARY Gandhi and the Champaran Satyagraha: An Endeavour, A Legacy and Contemporary Indiaat Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla( 29 -31 May, 2017)

Histories of ‘tribal’ peoples in India have been struggling continuously to respond to the increasingly complex present-day predicaments of peoples so described. If the task of History is to speak empathetically from conceptions of the past to the human condition in the present, this task is extreme...

The National Seminar  on “Regional Cultures and New Media Technologies’ is an attempt to address the cultural continuum that lies between the local/immediate, the national capital or cultural production hubs and the many linkages in the vast web that connects them. The term ‘regional’ used here is n...

Different regions of what now constitutes India came under the British rule, no doubt; but, they were also either hegemonized by or were hegemonic towards, other internecine cultures. With the advent of colonial modernity came one of the major new ideologies, that of linguistic (Modern Indian Langua...

The past three decades have seen a spate of publications that have attempted to theorize various aspects of Indian media. We are witnessing a thriving field of media research at the crossroads of a variety of academic disciplines including Anthropology, History, Sociology, Political Science, Cultura...

The idea behind the symposium is to initiate an enduring conversation between the social sciences communities in both India and Indonesia. Beyond the obvious benefit of sharing insights and building collaborations lies the belief that since both India and Indonesia are complex countries, where a lay...

Questions about the nature and functions of myth in diverse cultural contexts have been raised and discussed by scholars from varying disciplines like anthropology, religious studies, folkloristics, history of literature, philosophy and psychology. The very concept of myth seems to change radically…

As the world becomes “global”, so too should its history - especially its history of science. Contemporary histories of knowledge have drawn our attention to the importance of multiple sources, communicative networks, and circulation of scientific knowledge in the making. This refocusing has come wi...

The rediscovery of Bhāsa’s plays in the first decades of the 20th century is the most remarkable event in the history of Indian classical theatre. Since then all thirteen plays of Bhāsa, some based on the Mahābhārata, others on the Rāmāyana and Bruhadakathā have been widely performed across the coun...