Draft Schedule
Thursday, May 11
1:00-2:00 Welcome Lunch
2:00-2:15 Introduction: Sunil Amrith and Emma Rothschild, Harvard University
2:15-3:45 Session 1 – Transregional Movements
Tiraana Bains, Yale University
From St Helena to Bencoolen: The British East India Company’s Practices of Slavery and Slave Trading in the Eighteenth CenturyLouise Moschetta, University of Cambridge
The Materiality of Wages among Indian Migrants in British Guiana, 1870-1917Chao Ren, Tufts University
The Imperial Geography of Commerce: British India and the “Northeast Corridor” in Global Context, 1850-19003:45-4:00 Break
4:00-4:15 Mini-keynote address
4:15-5:15 Session 2 – Risk and Social Crisis
Meghna Chaudhuri, New York University
The Value of Life: Providential Events in Agrarian South AsiaMadhavi Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University
“Relief” and “Work”: Women as Economic Subjects in Famine Relief in Colonial North India
Friday, May 12
9:30-9:45 Mini-keynote address
9:45-10:45 Session 3 – Economic Life in Colonial India
Saumyashree Ghosh, Princeton University
The Making of the Mokam: Railway Trading Stations and Mapping a Business Landscape in Eastern India, c. 1870-1914Arun Kumar, University of Göttingen
Artisans, Apprenticeship, and Cultures of Craft Guilds in Colonial North India, 1850-1950Sukhalata Sen, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Money Matters: Counterfeiting of Indian Money under the British Raj10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:15 Mini-keynote address
11:15-12:45 Session 4 – Planning and Policy After Independence
Aditya Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge
Anticorruption, Bureaucracy, and Wartime Law: The Case of the Special Police Establishment
Shivangi Jaiswal, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Labour Ministers, Caste and the Prism of Law, 1942-52Nikhil Menon, Princeton University
Numbers for a Nation: Statistics and India’s Five-Year Plans1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:45 Concluding Discussion & Website Launch: The Archives of Economic Life in India
If you are interested in attending the conference, please email histproj@fas.harvard.edu
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