Hi Shekhar, all,<br>
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Will we have projection facilities. I would like to show (quite a) few images.<br>
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Warmly,<br>
Anand<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Shekhar Krishnan</b> <<a href="mailto:shekhar@mit.edu">shekhar@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Dear All:<br>
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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/%7Eshekhar/urban-media/taneja_archaeology_myth.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/taneja_archaeology_myth.pdf</a>
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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/%7Eshekhar/urban-media/taneja_lado_sarai.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">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/%7Eshekhar/urban-media/messick_calligraphic_state.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/messick_calligraphic_state.pdf
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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/%7Eshekhar/urban-media/bayly_delhi_twilight.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">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/%7Eshekhar/urban-media/gupta_delhi_and_hinterland.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/gupta_delhi_and_hinterland.pdf
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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>
<a href="http://www.mit.edu/%7Eshekhar/urban-media/khan_children_jinn.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/khan_children_jinn.pdf</a><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>
<a href="http://www.mit.edu/%7Eshekhar/urban-media/kumar_delhi_pasts.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/kumar_delhi_pasts.pdf</a><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.
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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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