This is a full archive of articles and books from the twenty sessions of Urban South Asia, a workshop and reading group on cities in India and Asia which I organised with anthropologist Prof Michael M.J. Fischer and historian Dr Nikhil Rao at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
From 2006 to 2008 we hosted social scientists and urban researchers who presented their work in-progress alongside selected texts and sources on urbanisation in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and America. Files linked in the posts below are provided solely for purposes of study, research, and education.
MIT-STS URBAN SOUTH ASIA WORKSHOP
Program in Science Technology & Society (STS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) E51-185, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.
2006
1 March: “Hyderabad from Charminar to Cantontment”
ERIC LEWIS BEVERLEY
Harvard University Department of Indo-Islamic Cultures
15 March: “The Apartment Building in Bombay”
NIKHIL RAO
Wellesley College Department of History
5 April: “The Street in South Asia”
NIKHIL RAO
Wellesley College Department of History
19 April: “Urban Social Spaces: Adeeb and Adda”
SARAH WAHEED
Tufts University Department of History
3 May: “Sex, Work & Migration in Mumbai”
SVATI SHAH
New York University (NYU) Dept of Gender & Sexuality Studies
10 May: “Real Estate Capital & Film Finance in Bombay”
ASHISH RAJADHYAKSHA
Centre for the Study of Culture & Society (CSCS), Bangalore
3 October: “Patrick Geddes & Town Planning in India”
RAMACHANDRA GUHA
MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
31 October: “Suburbanisation in Colonial Bombay”
NIKHIL RAO
Wellesley College Department of History
14 November: “Delhi in Ruins”
ANAND VIVEK TANEJA
Columbia University Department of Anthropology
5 December: “Colonial Planning & Princely Hyderabad”
ERIC LEWIS BEVERLEY
Harvard University Department of Indo-Islamic Cultures
12 December: “Divine Enterprise in Bangalore”
TULASI SRINIVAS
Emerson College Department of Anthropology
2007
15 March: “Remembering Raj Chandavarkar”
DOUGLAS HAYNES
Dartmouth College Department of History
22 March: “Labour, Space & Politics”
Roundtable at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Boston, Mass, 2008
SUBHO BASU, Syracuse University, New York
FRANK F. CONLON, University of Washington, Seattle
DOUGLAS HAYNES, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
SHEKHAR KRISHNAN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NIKHIL RAO, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
LISA TRIVEDI, Hamilton College, New York
2 October: “Street Hawkers, Commodities and Urban Space”
JONATHAN SHAPIRO-ANJARIA
Bard College Department of Anthropology
2008
19 February: “The Making of an Indian Metropolis”
PRASHANT KIDAMBI,
The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1860-1920
12 March: “ Making Lahore Modern”
WILLIAM J. GLOVER,
Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City
2 April: “Urban Hegemony in Bombay”
SANDEEP HAZAREESINGH,
The Colonial City and the Challenge of Modernity : Urban Hegemonies and Civic Contestations in Bombay City, 1900-1925
23 April: “Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities”
STEPHEN LEGG,
Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities
14 May: “Representing Calcutta”
SWATI CHATTOPADHYAY,
Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny
28 May: “Bangalore’s Twentieth Century”
JANAKI NAIR,
The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century
2 October: “Cinematographs, Celluloid & Cinema in Bombay”
ASHISH RAJADHYAKSHA,
Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to Emergency
6 November: “Beyond Colonial Urbanism: Cities in South Asia”
Panel at the Urban History Association (UHA) 4th Biennial Conference, Houston, Texas, 2008
WILLIAM J. GLOVER, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
ISHITA PANDE, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
ERIC LEWIS BEVERLEY, Stony Brook University, New York
NIKHIL RAO, Wellesley College, Massachusetts