[Urban-Media] 11.14.06: Delhi in Ruins

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

We will meet for our next session on TUESDAY 14 NOVEMBER in MIT Building
E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) from 7.00-9.00 p.m. to discuss
these texts on the politics of medieval ruins and cultures of urban
memory in Delhi:

PRIMARY TEXTS

Anand Vivek Taneja, Columbia University, "The Archaeology of Myth: The
Myth of Archaeology: The Pasts and Present of the Purana Qila"
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/taneja_archaeology_myth.pdf

Anand Vivek Taneja, "History and Heritage Woven in the New Urban Fabric:
The Changing Landscapes of Delhi's 'First City', 1995-2005 (or, Who Can
Tell the Histories of Lado Sarai?)" 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/taneja_lado_sarai.pdf

SECONDARY TEXTS

Selections from Brinkley Messick, The Calligraphic State, Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1993, pp. 95-98 on 'endowments' and
pp.171-176 on 'shakwa'.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/messick_calligraphic_state.pdf

C.A. Bayly, "Delhi and Other Cities of North India during the
'Twilight'" in R.E. Frykenberg, ed., Delhi Through the Ages, reprinted
in The Delhi Omnibus, New Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2002,
pp.121-136
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/bayly_delhi_twilight.pdf

Narayani Gupta, "Delhi and Its Hinterland: The Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Centuries" in R.E. Frykenberg, ed., Delhi Through the Ages,
reprinted in The Delhi Omnibus, New Delhi: Oxford University Press
India, 2002, pp.137-156
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/gupta_delhi_and_hinterland.pdf

Naveeda Khan, "Of Children and Jinns: An Inquiry into an Unexpected
Friendship During Uncertain Times", Cultural Anthropology, May 2006 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/khan_children_jinn.pdf

Sunil Kumar, "A Medieval Reservoir and Modern Urban Planning: Local
Society and the Hauz-i-Rani" and "Making Sacred History or Everyone
his/her own Historian: The Pasts of the village of Saidlajab" from The
Present in Delhi's Pasts, Delhi: Three Essays Press, 2002, pp.62-118.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/kumar_delhi_pasts.pdf

Please note that this last link to the text by Sunil Kumar is the entire
book, but the reading is only for the second and third essays in the
volume, as cited above. The first two links will be the basis for a
short presentation and introduction to discussion by Anand Vivek Taneja
from the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, who will
join us for the session. As usual, I will order meals for everyone.
Please let me know if you are NOT coming so I can adjust the food order
accordingly. 

Best, 


S.K.
-- 

Shekhar Krishnan
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