Archive for May, 2008
Bangalore’s Twentieth Century
Our last session this semester will be on WEDNESDAY 28 MAY 2008 in MIT E51-195 from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. when we will discuss:
Primary Text
Janaki Nair, The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2005).
Supplementary Texts
Janaki Nair, Beladide Noda Bengaluru Nagara!, Photo Exhibition on “Worlding the City : The Futures of Bangalore”, 2000
Representing Calcutta
Our next session will be on WEDNESDAY 14 MAY 2008 in MIT E51-195 from 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. when we will discuss the work of historian Swati Chattopadhyay.
Primary Text
Chattopadhyay, Swati. Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny. Routledge, 2006.
Supplementary Texts
Sudipta Kaviraj, “Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta”, Public Culture vol.10, no.1 (1997) pp.83-113.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Of Garbage, Modernity and the Citizen’s Gaze” in Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp.65-79.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Adda: A History of Sociality” in Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp.180-213.