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We will meet for our next session on TUESDAY 14 NOVEMBER in MIT Building<TT> </TT>E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) from 7.00-9.00 p.m. to discuss<TT> </TT>these texts on the politics of medieval ruins and cultures of urban<TT> </TT>memory in Delhi:<BR>
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PRIMARY TEXTS<BR>
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Anand Vivek Taneja, Columbia University, "The Archaeology of Myth: The<TT> </TT>Myth of Archaeology: The Pasts and Present of the Purana Qila"<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/taneja_archaeology_myth.pdf">http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/taneja_archaeology_myth.pdf</A><BR>
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Anand Vivek Taneja, "History and Heritage Woven in the New Urban Fabric:<TT> </TT>The Changing Landscapes of Delhi's 'First City', 1995-2005 (or, Who Can<TT> </TT>Tell the Histories of Lado Sarai?)" <BR>
<A HREF="http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/taneja_lado_sarai.pdf">http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/taneja_lado_sarai.pdf</A><BR>
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SECONDARY TEXTS<BR>
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Selections from Brinkley Messick, The Calligraphic State, Berkeley:<TT> </TT>University of California Press, 1993, pp. 95-98 on 'endowments' and<TT> </TT>pp.171-176 on 'shakwa'.<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/messick_calligraphic_state.pdf">http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/messick_calligraphic_state.pdf</A><BR>
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C.A. Bayly, "Delhi and Other Cities of North India during the<TT> </TT>'Twilight'" in R.E. Frykenberg, ed., Delhi Through the Ages, reprinted<TT> </TT>in The Delhi Omnibus, New Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2002,<TT> </TT>pp.121-136<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/bayly_delhi_twilight.pdf">http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/bayly_delhi_twilight.pdf</A><BR>
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Narayani Gupta, "Delhi and Its Hinterland: The Nineteenth and Early<TT> </TT>Twentieth Centuries" in R.E. Frykenberg, ed., Delhi Through the Ages,<TT> </TT>reprinted in The Delhi Omnibus, New Delhi: Oxford University Press<TT> </TT>India, 2002, pp.137-156<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/gupta_delhi_and_hinterland.pdf">http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/gupta_delhi_and_hinterland.pdf</A><BR>
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Naveeda Khan, "Of Children and Jinns: An Inquiry into an Unexpected<TT> </TT>Friendship During Uncertain Times", Cultural Anthropology, May 2006<BR>
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Sunil Kumar, "A Medieval Reservoir and Modern Urban Planning: Local<TT> </TT>Society and the Hauz-i-Rani" and "Making Sacred History or Everyone<TT> </TT>his/her own Historian: The Pasts of the village of Saidlajab" from The<TT> </TT>Present in Delhi's Pasts, Delhi: Three Essays Press,<TT> </TT>2002, pp.62-118.<BR>
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Please note that this last link to the text by Sunil Kumar is the entire<TT> </TT>book, but the reading is only for the second and third essays in the<TT> </TT>volume, as cited above. <BR>
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The first two links will be the basis for a<TT> </TT>short presentation and introduction to discussion by Anand Vivek Taneja<TT> </TT>from the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, who will<TT> </TT>join us for the session. <BR>
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As usual, I will order meals for everyone.<TT> </TT>Please let me know if you are NOT coming so I can adjust the food order<TT> </TT>accordingly. <BR>
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Best, <BR>
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S.K.<BR>
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