Session II: A Knowing Power—

Bourgeois Ideology and Colonial Surveillance

  • Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (James Madison University USA)— “Afghanistan as Intellectual Capital in Anglo-American Imperial Knowledge Formations:  Comparing Mountstuart Elphinstone’s Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and Louis Dupree’s Afghanistan
  • Prachi Deshpande (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta) – “Measuring Up: Land Revenue, Native Surveyors, and the State in Early Colonial Bombay”
  • M M Azizul Islam Rasel (University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh) – “Dutch Perception of the Mughals, Bengal and Assam: A Study of a Seventeenth Century Dutch Travelogue”

LOCATION:

DATE: April 20, 2017

TIME: 11:00 am – 12:45 am

 

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Prachi Deshpande

M. M. Azizul Islam Rasel