From beverley at fas.harvard.edu Fri Jul 13 11:59:58 2007 From: beverley at fas.harvard.edu (beverley@fas.harvard.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:59:58 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Invitation for talk on British Secunderabad and Modern Hyderabad, 17 July Message-ID: <1184342398.4697a17e588af@webmail.fas.harvard.edu> i am giving a talk in hyderabad this coming tuesday. im not sure if any of you will be in town, but am sending the description for your interest and in case you know of anyone who might be interested. please feel free to distribute this announcement. elb ~~~ Dear Friends, Vidyasagar's Art Centre and the Alam Khundmiri Foundation take great pleasure in inviting you to the third in a series of talks on culture and history on Tuesday, 17th July, 7 pm. Visiting historian Eric Beverley, Department of History, State University of New York will speak on British Secunderabad and the Making of Modern Hyderabad City The topic acquires special significance in this 200th year of the establishing of Secunderabad as a 'twin-city'. The talk will examine the Nizam's capital city of Hyderabad and the British cantonment of Secunderabad in the period of high colonialism. 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. Negotiations between the two states over control of urban space structured profound cultural, geographical and legal changes. 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. 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. 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. Look forward to seeing you there, Rasna Bhushan Independent Art Historian and Curator Venue: 1-2-412/6 Gagan Mahal Colony Hyderabad ( route map attached) Tel : 64541134 ??? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/urban-media/attachments/20070713/12673faa/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Map.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 180931 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/urban-media/attachments/20070713/12673faa/attachment.jpg