[Urban-Media] 11.14.06: Delhi in Ruins

[Nithya Raman]

hey did you get the sms i sent you this morning?
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On Nov 1, 2006, at 10:46 PM, Shekhar Krishnan wrote:

> 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.
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