South Asian Studies Program
The Program in Global Medieval Studies
Speaker: Thomas BurmanLunch will be served.All are welcome.rsvp gms@sas.rutgers.edu
The Little Magazine (TLM), the independent print journal of ideas and letters born in Delhi in 2000, was conceived as a cross-border cultural dialogue. It was focused on social concerns, new ideas across the world, art and South Asian literatures in translation.
Speaker: Subah Dayal
Lunch will be served.All are welcome.gms@sas.rutgers.edu
“In 1851, the teenage maharaja of Indore went missing. Rumors in the bazaar claimed he had been drugged by his vizier, or kidnapped by agents from Calcutta. The reality was more prosaic: He had gone on vacation. In this talk, I examine the travels of the maharaja of Indore and the Urdu-language travelogue his court produced from that journey to ask why this genre suddenly rose to popularity in colonial India, and what its authors and readers hoped to get from it.
Dr. Shreeyash Palshikar, university professor and second generation magician, presents an interactive performance and lecture that brings together the history and practice of traditional Indian street magic (Jadoo).
