<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Dear Friends,</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Vidyasagar’s Art Centre</B><SPAN style=""> and the </SPAN><B>Alam Khundmiri Foundation</B><SPAN style=""> take great pleasure in inviting you to the third in a series of talks on culture and history on Tuesday, 17<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">th</SPAN></FONT> July, 7 pm.</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Visiting historian Eric Beverly, Department of History, State University of New York will speak on<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666699" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>British Secunderabad and the Making of Modern Hyderabad City</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666699" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">The topic acquires special significance in this 200<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">th</SPAN></FONT> year of the establishing of Secunderabad as a “twin-city”.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">The talk will examine the Nizam’s capital city of Hyderabad and the British cantonment of Secunderabad in the period of high colonialism.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>During the last decades of the nineteenth century, state institutions and subjects of Hyderabad began a dramatic shift out of the old walled city and north across the Musa river, where the British Residency and Cantonment were located.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Negotiations between the two states over control of urban space structured profound cultural, geographical and legal changes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sketching out the reshaping of the city from the perspective of the Raj, the Nizam and the subject population, the talk seeks to illuminate the important but limited role of colonialism during this period of urbanization, and different understandings of what it meant to be a modern city in this context. </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Eric Beverley is Assistant Professor of History at SUNY-Stony Brook and teaches courses on modern and early modern South Asia, the Muslim world and postcolonial studies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His PhD dissertation (Harvard University, 2007) examines the intellectual, institutional, and urban history of Hyderabad Princely State in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Look forward to seeing you there,</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Rasna Bhushan</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Independent Art Historian and Curator</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Venue: 1-2-412/6</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gagan Mahal Colony</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hyderabad<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>( route map attached)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Tel : 64541134</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <SPAN><IMG src="cid:85794287-9320-46FC-AA5E-5A957D81672D@local"></SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV></BODY></HTML>