MUTINY AT THE MARGINS:
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE INDIAN UPRISING OF 1857
Conference at Edinburgh University, 23rd-26th July 2007
The conference timetable below is based on an assumption that papers are pre-circulated and approximately 35 minutes will be allowed per paper for discussion. If you wish to REGISTER for the conference, please contact 1857conference@ed.ac.uk.
MONDAY 23rd JULY
3.00pm – 6.00pm: Formal conference registration and coffee, David Hume Tower, George Square [map]
5.00 - 7.00pm: Buffet dinner in the David Hume Tower Basement
Evening: 7.00 - 8.00pm: Exhibition Opening and Public Reception (with Edinburgh Indian Association) at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Queen Street.
TUESDAY
24TH JULY
9-12am Late registration and Tea/coffee: David Hume Tower, George
Square.
9.00am - 10.30am Panel 1: 1857 - precursors and precedents
Dirk Kolff: Leiden University (NIAS)
- Rumours of the Company's collapse: the mood of Dasahra 1824 in the Panjab
and Hindustan
discussant: Rajat Ray
Thomas Lloyd (University of Edinburgh)
- 'Thuggee' and the Margins of the State in Early Nineteenth-Century Colonial
India
discussant: Yasmin Khan
Devadas Moodley (Greenwich University)
- A Tale of Two Mutinies: Vellore, 1806 and Madras, 1809
discussant: Sabyasachi Dasgupta
10.30am -10.45am - Tea/coffee
10.45am - 12.30pm Panel 2: 1857 the Event (part one)
Clare Anderson (University of Warwick) - Sites of Provocation
and Coalescence: jails as spaces of rebellion in 1857-8.
discussant: Devadas Moodley
Gautam Bhadra (CSSS Calcutta)
- What constitutes a margin or margins? The politics of perception
and the representation of power: the insurrection of 1857 in Kolhan.
discussant: Projit Mukharji
Aziz Husain (Jamia Milia Islamia) -
1857 as Reflected in Persian and Urdu Documents
discussant/presenter: Mahmood Farooqui [in absentia]
Mahmood Farooqui - The Police in Delhi
in 1857
discussant: Gautam Chakravarty
12.30pm-1.30pm - Lunch (room 108, William Robertson Building)
1.30pm - 3.00pm - Panel 2: 1857 the event (cont)
Vijay Pinch (Wesleyan College) - Prostituting
the Mutiny
discussant/presenter: Michael Fisher [in absentia]
Veena Naregal (IEG, New Delhi) - Merchant
Networks and the Mutiny in Western India discussant:
Crispin Bates
Shailendra Bhandare (Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford) SLIDE PRESENTATION
Rethinking the Revolt: Coinage in 1857-59
3.00pm - 3.15pm - Tea/Coffee
3.15pm - 5.15pm Panel 3: 1857 and Islam
Jan Peter Hartung (University
of Bonn) - Abused Rationality? - On the Role of maquli
Scholars in the events of 1857
discussant: Kim Wagner
Avril Powell (SOAS London) - Marginal
Muslims: maulawis, munsifs, munshis and others
discussant: Jan Peter Hartung
Seema Alavi (Jamia Milia Islamia) - Travel
and the nation: Maulana Jafer Thanesri as a mutiny convict
discussant: Michael Fisher
5.15-5.45pm: SHORT FILM: Dalit memories of 1857
Evening: 7.00 pm Public Lecture by Rajat Ray (Professor
and Vice-Chancellor Vishva Bharati University), with Nupur Chaudhuri
(Presidency College Calcutta): 'We and They in 1857: The Mutiny
from the Mutineers Mouths'. To be followed by an evening reception,
with private viewing of Scots and India exhibition, at the NLS.
Alternative evening
activities to include pub and heritage tours of the old town of Edinburgh.
8.30pm - Conference Dinner in the Playfair Library, Old College
WEDNESDAY, 25th JULY
9.15am - 10.30am Panel 4: 1857 in Indian Literature
Sudhir Chandra - 1857 and the Indian
Intelligentsia
discussant: Charu Gupta
Tithi Bhattacharya (Purdue University)
- Haunting History: Ghost stories of and about 1857 discussant: Markus
Daechsel
10.30am - 10.45am - Tea/coffee
10.45 - 12.30 - Panel 5: European and British Responses
Kim Wagner (University of Edinburgh)
- The Protocols of Nena Sahib: the 1857-fantasy of Hermann Goedsche
discussant: Alex Padamsee
Projit Mukharji (University of Southampton)
- Dinna Ye Hear It?: mutiny in the voice of the British subalterns
discussant: Esther Breitenbach
Gautam
Chakravarty (Delhi University) - Mutiny or war? Re-visiting an old debate
discussant: Jill Bender
12.30pm -1.15pm Lunch
1.15pm - 3.30pm Panel 6: British responses to and experiences of
1857
Andrea Major (University
of Edinburgh) - 'The Hazards of Interference': British fears of rebellion
and sati as a potential site of conflict, 1829-1857
discussant: Seema Alavi
Alex Padamsee (University of Kent) - Muslim Conspiracies and the State
in the British Colonial Imagination
discussant: Tithi Bhattacharya
Jill
Bender (Boston College) - Sir George Grey and the 1857 Indian
Rebellion: the unmaking and making of an imperial career
discussant: Andrea Major
3.30pm-3.45pm - Tea/coffee
3.45pm - 6.00pm Panel 6: British responses to and experiences of
1857 (cont.)
Rosie Llewellyn Jones (SOAS) - The
'Other' Victims of 1857
discussant: Avril Powell
Satadru Sen (University of New York)
- Mutiny's Children: Race, Childhood and Authority after Eighteen Fifty-Seven
discussant: Ruby Lal
Michael Fisher (Oberlin University)
- The Multiple Meanings of 1857 for Indians in Britain
discussant: Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Evening -: 6.30-8pm: Performance of north
Indian classical Khyal singing by Rajan Misra and his brother
Sajan Misra at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery ,
followed by Reception and Buffet dinner (8.30pm) in the
Raeburn room, Old College
THURSDAY 26th JULY
9.00am - 10.45am Panel 7: Legacies and memories of 1857
Marina Carter & Crispin Bates (University
of Edinburgh) - 1857, migration and the South Asian diaspora
discussant: Badri Narayan Tiwari
Chhanda Chatterjee (Vishva Bharati
University) - The Great Rebellion of 1857 and the Birth of a New Identity
of the Sikhs of the Punjab
discussant: Pritam Singh
Ben Zachariah
(University of Sheffield) - 1857 in the Nationalist Imagination
discussant: Sudhir Chandra
10.45am - 11.00am - Tea/coffee
11.00am-12.45pm Panel 7: Legacies and memories of 1857 (cont.)
Carol Henderson (Rutgers University)
- Spatial Memorialising of Atrocity in 1857: Memories, Traces, and Silences
in Ethnography
discussant: Satadru Sen
Badri Narayan
Tiwari (GB Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad) - Identity and
Narratives: Dalits and Memories of 1857
discussant: Ben Zachariah
Charu Gupta (NML research fellow) - Condemnation
and Commemoration: (En)Gendering Dalit Narratives of 1857.
discussant: Veena Naregal
12.45pm-1.45pm: Lunch and departure
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