India Research Programme, German Historical Institute London - MWS

Early career scholars from India and Germany who are connected with me: please note. This is a great opportunity to join up with a scholar you know or whose work is close to your own and get this joint fellowship.
Deadline for applications: 29 September

🤝 Each year, the GHIL awards a number of research scholarships to students, Habilitanden and . As it is we would like to highlight our newest awarded jointly by the India Research Programme and the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies New Delhi.

🇮🇳🇩🇪🇬🇧This is our first Tandem Fellowship and it is aimed at early career scholars whose research is situated in the broad field of the British Empire and the History of Colonialism. This exciting new is open to scholars from and and aims to bring together one scholar each from these two countries to meet and exchange ideas in London and New Delhi.

Applications are open now! More information: https://www.ghil.ac.uk/opportunities/scholarships .

The German Historical Institute London is delighted to announce its first Thyssen Lecture on Science, Knowledge, and the Legacy of Empire. The lecture will be given by Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) at. the GHIL on 11 October and at Cardiff University on 13 October 2023.
For more details, including registration, clcik here

https://www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectures

Our final conference of the pilot phase of our project on Education and the Urban in India starts today. Looking forward tremendously but also with a tear in my eye. What a lovely collaboration it was!
Manjrekar
Tukdeo
B Nambissan

https://www.ghil.ac.uk/events/conferences-and-workshops/education-and-urban-transformations

Education and Urban Transformations In its relatively short span of life as a domain of academic inquiry, the discipline of urban studies has developed a research trajectory that is built on diverse theoretical grounds and multidisciplinary perspectives. From governance to critical geography and from architecture to protest art, the c...

Summer School on Environment and the British Empire at the GHI London, 19-22 July 2022. Organised by the India Research Programme at the GHIL. Open to advanced BA and MA students at German universities. Details below
https://www.ghil.ac.uk/opportunities/students-workshops/summer-school

Summer School The relationship between imperialism and colonialism and devastating, enduring changes in the global environment is now accepted. This summer school will focus on the British Empire, with particular emphasis on colonial India, to examine this relationship. How did colonial exploitation of natural re...

The 14th and final paper in this Working Paper Series on the Metro colonies in Bengaluru. By Shiavali Tukdeo and Amar Mali
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Mythili Ramchand on teachers and pedagogy in Bengaluru. Read on in the 13th paper in our series on Education and the Urban ...
https://perspectivia.net/receive/pnet_mods_00004214

Schooling the Urban Poor Teachers working in schools run by city corporations in mega cities like Bengaluru primarily cater for children living in slums, which have the highest concentrations of poverty, socially disadvantaged groups, and children of migrant workers. Teachers are neither professionally prepared nor given su...

Debarati Bagchi looks at the relationship between universities and the market in land in India since Independence in our twelfth Working Paper on Education and the Urban. For more, click on the link below
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Education Hub in Sonipat While education studies and urban studies have flourished as rich areas of research in South Asia, the interface between education and the urban has received little scholarly attention. My paper attempts to address this gap by drawing attention to issues such as land and locality in the study of hig...

Another historical paper in our Working Paper Series (No. 11) by our Principal Investigator Nandini Manjrekar and our Research Associate Poushali Basak is now out: on education and the working class, mill districts of Bombay in the early years of the twentieth century:

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Public Education in Bombay’s Mill District in the Early Twentieth Century The emergence of Mumbai as India’s premier urban metropolis was directly related to the development of its textile industry from the mid nineteenth century. The extensive scholarly archive on Bombay (now Mumbai) provides a lens through which to view the growth of the early city, from studies of sp...

Our much-anticipated tenth paper of the Working Paper Series on Edcuation and the Urban in India by Akash Bhattacharya is now out. Enjoy! Congratualtions, Akash!
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Urbanizing Uttarpara This paper examines the causes and patterns of urbanization in nineteenth-century Uttarpara, one of the eight west bank municipalities near the city of Calcutta (present-day Kolkata) in eastern India. The focus is on the early years of its transformation from a cluster of hamlets in the northern cor...

We are delighted to announce the ninth paper in our series Education and the Urban by our PI Professor Geetha B. Nambissan: The Changing Urban and Education in Delhi: Privilege and Exclusion in a Megacity
Check it out here: https://perspectivia.net/receive/pnet_mods_00003983

The Changing Urban and Education in Delhi This paper is an attempt to understand how education – especially in relation to children’s rights – is implicated in the changing urban. I focus on Delhi, India’s national capital and one of its ‘megacities’, and enquire into the implications of the city’s changing trajectory for the ...