Title: History Research and Teaching in India: National and International
Lecturer: Rila Mukherjee (Professor of History, University of Hyderabad)
Chairperson: YANG Biao (Professor of History, East China Normal University)
Date: 8 am, June 13th, 2016 (Monday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
The presentation will focus on the travails of History writing in India, showing that this was intimately linked to the agenda of nation-building in independent India. It will be primarily a historiographical survey of history writing on
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Rila Mukherjee, Professor of History, University of Hyderabad. She teaches History of India, The World of the Indian Ocean and Modern Asia at the Masters level at HCU. She did her PhD. from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. she has published extensively on the Indian Ocean, the history of Europe and citizenship. She is Chief Editor of Asian Review of World Histories. Her publications include The Making of the Citizen in Southasia; Merchants and Companies in Bengal: Kasimbazar and Jugdia in the Eighteenth Century; Strange Riches: Bengal in the Mercantile Map of South Asia; Europe in the Second Millennium: A Hegemony Achieved?; Rupantorito Europe; Europe Transformed 1350-1789, The Lost Worlds of Europe from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Age.