One-Day Online Workshop in Collaboration with Kashf Initiative
5 AM - 5:30 AM GMT — Keynote Lecture by Dr Ankur Barua (University of Cambridge), Exploring Hindu-Muslim Relations in the Longue Durée of South Asia
5:30 AM - 7 AM GMT — Panel 1: Transregional Identities
Dr P. Jinimon (University of Kerala), Engraved Histories: Rethinking 'Kerala' Beyond Myths and Imagined Communities
Shashi Pathak & Dr Richa Mishra (Nirma University), Death of a Hindu in Not a Land of Gang(es): Transnational History of Diasporic Rituals Among Hindus – Selected Case Studies
Aabid Hussain Bhat (Aligarh Muslim University), Sacred Absence, Religious Displacement: The 1963 Holy Relic Incident in Kashmir and its Transnational Impact on India-Pakistan Relations
Dilsha Aramban (University of Kerala), Beyond Borders: Exploring the Dynamics of Transnational History in a Globalized World
7:30 AM - 9 AM GMT — Panel 2: Cultural & Historical Figures
Ramyani Banerjee & Noyonika Bhattacharya (University of Delhi), Colonial Anxiety vs. Nationalist Propagation: The Dual Marginalization of the Subalterns through the Appropriation of Kali in Colonial Bengal’s Cultural Politics
Shivani Krishnakumar (University of Hyderabad), Coping with War: Children’s Resistance and Quotidian Humour in Bobanum Moliyum
Azhar Mallick (Jamia Millia Islamia University), Aurangzeb in European Imagination: Situating the Mughal Emperor in Global History
9:30 AM - 11 AM GMT — Panel 3: Knowledge & Discourse Production Globally
Ramyajit Sarkar (Bankura University), Indian Civilization and Alkali Studies: A Global History
Vidarshna Mehrotra (Manipal Centre for Humanities), Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Itinerario: Mapping Knowledge and Power in the Early Modern Indian Ocean
Anahita Goydani (Jawaharlal Nehru University) & Antara Bhattacharya (Vidyasagar University), Colonialism and Knowledge Production around Reproductive Rights in India: The Case of Illegitimacy in Colonial India and its Post-Colonial Continuities
Areeba Ahad (Advocate & Human Rights Activist), The Transnational History and Global Efforts to Eradicate Female Genital Mutilation: A Human Rights Perspective