Alisha Sadikot

Alisha Sadikot will lead conference participants and invited guests on a walking tour through Mumbai’s ‘fort’ area that spotlights the hidden spaces and histories of 19th century Bombay. The route, anchored by visits to two historic city institutions, the Elphinstone College and the Asiatic Society, takes you from Bombay’s early history as a struggling fortified town, through its early 19th century challenges of planning and resources, to its period of transformation into a cosmopolitan, growing centre of business and industry in the latter 1800s.

Alisha Sadikot is an independent museums and heritage learning professional working to instigate critical and creative public engagement with art, museum collections and heritage spaces in Mumbai. Her practice, through the Inheritage Project (founded 2011), focuses on educational, family, specialist and other groups from the city. Alisha was Curator, Education & Outreach, at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum from 2012 to 2015 where she developed and built the Museum’s popular learning programme.

Alisha has a Bachelor of Arts in History, with Honours, from St. Xavier’s College, a Masters degree in History of Art from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Heritage and Museum Education and Interpretation from the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies (ICCHS), Newcastle University.

For more information please visit her site: https://theinheritageproject.wordpress.com/

She is also on Instagram: @the_inheritage_project.