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Conversations on South Asia with Robert Travers

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Tuesday, May 9 | 12:15–1:15 PM ET | Zoom

Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-travers

How did Mughal law shape Britain’s empire in India? How did imperial officials co-opt and transform Persianate approaches to law and justice? What influence did late-Mughal practices of petitioning and complaint have on colonial state formation?

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In Empires of Complaints: Mughal law and the making of British India, 1765–1793 (Cambridge University Press 2022), historian Robert Travers (Cornell University) explores these questions and employs Persian and English sources to offer a new history of early colonial statecraft. With a focus on revenue collection, taxation, and civil law, Travers recasts the history of law in this pivotal period of transition.

Join us to learn more.

Hayden Bellenoit (US Naval Academy) and Naveena Naqvi (University of British Columbia) will be joining the author for this discussion.

Elizabeth Lhost will moderate.

Register to attend the webinar: https://dartgo.org/conversations-travers

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Conversations on South Asia is sponsored by the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund, the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program, and the History Department at Dartmouth College.

All are welcome to attend.

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Conversations on South Asia with Abhishek Kaicker

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Were Mughal Delhi’s city-dwellers docile sheep the emperor ruled over, or did even the humblest of them assert claims to participate in public affairs? How did politics, economics, and religion shape their claims?

Following events in the imperial capital from its founding to its devastation at the hands of Iranian invader Nadir Shah in 1739, Abhishek Kaicker (University of California, Berkeley) explores the interplay between popular politics and royal authority in 17th-century Shahjahanabad (Delhi) in his latest book, The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Join the author, in conversation with Tiraana Bains (History, Dartmouth) and Fariba Zarinebaf (History, UC-Riverside), to hear more.

Elizabeth Lhost (History, Dartmouth) will moderate the discussion.

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 12:15–1:15 pm (eastern)

Zoom | Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-kaicker

The “Conversations on South Asia” series is sponsored by the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund, the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program, and the Department of History at Dartmouth College.

All are welcome.

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March 2: Conversations on South Asia with Nandini Chatterjee

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Join us Tuesday, March 2 from 12–1 pm (EST) for the next Conversations on South Asia event with Nandini Chatterjee (History, Exeter University).

This month, we’ll be discussing Chatterjee’s most recently published book, Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords Across Three Indian Empires, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020 and is freely available as an open access book through Cambridge Open.

In the book, Chatterjee explores the textures, nuances, conflicts, and complications of Mughal law using an archive of legal documents and materials that she reconstructed from multiple sites and repositories in and beyond South Asia.

Dominic Vendell (History, Exeter University) and Samira Sheikh (History, Vanderbilt University) will join us for this conversation.

Elizabeth Lhost (History Department, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College) will moderate.

Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/mughal-law

Support for the Conversations on South Asia Series comes from the the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund, the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program, the Department of History, and the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth.

This event is free and open to the public.