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Individual Paper Session

South Asia

C020: Views on Colonialism in South Asia

Monday, March 22, 2021

3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT

Chair(s)

PD

Purnima Dhavan

Dept. of History
University of Washington, United States

Paper Presenter(s)

Sarath Pillai

History
University of Chicago, United States
Neelum Sohail

History
Tufts University, United States
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Lisa Blake

McGill University, United States
Zoya Sameen

Department of History
University of Chicago, United States
ST

Sudipa Topdar

Illinois State University, United States

This session is comprised of Individual Papers selected by the program committee and organized to create this session.

Presentations:

A Short History of Self-Determination in Colonial South Asia
Paper Presenter: Sarath Pillai – University of Chicago
‘confessions’ of a Student-terrorist: The Schoolboy as a Criminal in Late Colonial India
Paper Presenter: Sudipa Topdar – Illinois State University
Deciding Who's Naughty and Who's Nice: Policing and Governance in Colonial India and the British Empire, 1850-1950
Paper Presenter: Neelum Sohail – Tufts University
'Plain Tales,' Bare Truths: The Memory of Prostitution in Late Colonial India
Paper Presenter: Zoya Sameen – University of Chicago
Printing a Community: The Māriyammaṉ Print Tradition and Non-Brahmin Interests in 19th century South India
Paper Presenter: Lisa Blake – McGill University