[Urban-Media] Invitation for talk on British Secunderabad and Modern Hyderabad, 17 July

[beverley@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

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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



  


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