Session I: Knowledge and Geography of a Greater Bombay?

Elphinstone’s Legacy

  • Jessica Chandras (George Washington University) – “Parallel Prestige Languages: English and Marathi in Higher Education in Urban Maharashtra”
  • Khalilullah Afzali (Independent Scholar, Director of Bysunqur Research Foundation, Herat) – Making Him “Afghan”:  How Afghan Literary and Political Elites Understood Bedil in the Twentieth Century
  • Ramla Wahab-Salman (Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka) – “Mountstuart Elphinstone and the Mediation of Global Forces and Local Agencies: Colonial Knowledge, National Histories and Public Higher Education in South Asia”

LOCATION:

DATE: April 20, 2017

TIME: 9:00 am – 10:45 am

 

Jessica Chandras

Khalilullah Afzali

Ramila Wahab-Salman