Peasant Millennium: A Conference Celebrating David Ludden and the History of South Asia

The conference will be held in the Glucksman Ireland House from 11 am to 6 pm on Saturday, May 4th. The Glucksman Ireland House is located at 1 Washington Mews.

PROGRAM

10:30 – 11:00 – Welcome, Bagels/Coffee
11:00 – 11:15 – Introduction (Meghna Chaudhuri and Matt Shutzer)

11:15 – 12:30 – Roundtable 1

Manan Ahmed: “What Did W. Norman Brown Do?”
Gyan Prakash: “Agrarian Studies and Subaltern Studies”
Manu Goswami: TBD

12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch

1:45 – 2:30 – Keynote 1

Mrinalini Sinha: “Mobility and Sovereignty: Thinking with David Ludden

2:45 – 4:15 – Roundtable 2

Johan Mathew: “From Development Regimes to Mobile Capital: New Histories of Capitalism in the Wake of David Ludden”

Prasannan Parthasarathi: “Agriculture and Environment in Nineteenth-Century Tamil Nadu”                                           
Andrew Sartori: “Currency, Commerce and the State: Cowry Country Revisited?”         
Willem van Schendel:” Spatial History, Borders, and ‘Nature’s Social Geography’”

4:15 – 4:30 – Break

4:30 – 5:15 – Keynote 2

Sanjay Subrahmanyam: “The Annales School and Indian History:                                                                                   The View from Tirunelveli”

Closing Remarks: David Ludden

Reception to follow