Soundings and echoes: a seminar on the study of South Asia in honour of Anthony Low
Dates & times
Fri 31 July 2015, 1.15–6pm
Location
Sir Roland Wilson Theatrette, Building #120
To reflect on trends and topics in the study of South Asia over the past 50 years, the seminar brings together a number of scholars whose doctoral theses were supervised by Anthony Low (1927-2015), Vice-Chancellor of the ANU 1975-82.
The speakers have accepted a brief to take 20-25 minutes to:
- explain why they undertook the PhD research that they did – what was the “state of the field” at the time they began (was there “a field”?)
- give an account of how “the field” developed thereafter (if it did)
- describe how their own research unfolded after the original thesis.
| Time | Speaker | Doctoral thesis topic | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.15 | OPENING REMARKS | |||
| 1.20 | John Broomfield | Politics and the Bengal Legislative Council, 1912-16 | ANU | 1963 |
| 1.45 | Robin Jeffrey | The decline of Nayar dominance: politics and society in Travancore, 1847-1908 | Sussex | 1973 |
| 2.10 | Stephen Henningham | Protest and control in North Bihar, India, 1917-1942: a study of conflict and continuity in a colonial agrarian society | ANU | 1978 |
| 2.35 | Brij Lal | Leaves of the Banyan tree: origins and background of Fiji’s north Indian indentured migrants | ANU | 1980 |
| 3pm | DISCUSSION | |||
| 3.15 | TEA | |||
| 3.30 | Dipesh Chakrabarty | The ‘working class’ in a pre-capitalist culture: a study of the jute workers of Calcutta, 1890-1940 | ANU | 1983 |
| 3.55 | David Lowe | Australia, Southeast Asia and the Cold War, 1948-54 | Cambridge | 1991 |
| 4.20 | Gyanesh Kudaisya | State power and the erosion of colonial authority in Uttar Pradesh, India, 1930-42 | Cambridge | 1992 |
| 4.45 | Medha Kudaisya | The public career of G. D. Birla, 1911-47 | Cambridge | 1992 |
| 5.10 | Deryck Schreuder ‘Africa and Anthony’ | A Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney and the University of Western Australia, Deryck Schreuder is a distinguished historian of Africa who knew Anthony from the 1970s | ||
| 5.35 | DISCUSSION & SUMMING UP | |||
| 6pm | CLOSE |
Papers will also be circulated from Professors Imran Ali, David Hardiman and James Manor.
Presented by South Asia Research Institute, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Contact
Assa Doron
02 6125 3870
assa.doron@anu.edu.au
