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Intended Audience(s): Public Registration required. What can the history of South India’s handloom industry tell us about economic history? How did changes in growing, cleaning, spinning, and weaving cotton shape this history? And how did local, regional, national, and global forces affect the lives of ordinary weavers?   Using an expansive array of sources— textual, material, and agricultural—Karuna Dietrich Wielenga’s new book, Weaving Histories: The Transformation of the Handloom Industry in South India 1800–1960, addresses these questions. Join us for a bonus event in the Con...

Conversations on South Asia with Durba Mitra Join us for the next Conversations on South Asia event to hear Durba Mitra discuss her book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. Tuesday, April 6, 2021 https://dartgo.org/indiansexlife Sponsored by: Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages, History Department, Society of Fellows, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Intended Audience(s): Public Registration required. How did deviant female sexuality become foundational to the colonial knowledge-production project? And how did the “prostitute” emerge a...

​Development of curriculum for Hindi, Korean and Tamil will commence in July Syllabuses to be developed for Pre-primary to Year 12 Education and...