In an effort to shed some light on the impact of the corona virus in South Asia, the Institute for South Asia Studies has launched Covid Conversations: Reflections from South Asia, a new series of virtual programs. Featuring UC Berkeley faculty in conversation with scholars, public intellectuals, health care providers, business leaders, journalists, and others in South Asia, the goal of this program is to understand the impact of the crisis from many different perspectives.
This event features Prof. Abhishek Kaicker in conversation with global women's rights reporter for BuzzFeed News, Ms. Nishita Jha on reporting on coronavirus in India today.
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DATE: Thursday, May 21, 2020
TIME: 9 am Berkeley | 9:30 pm Delhi | Calculate Your Local Time
This event will also be live streamed on the Institute's FB page: ISASatUCBerkeley
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Abhishek Kaicker is an assistant professor of history at UC Berkeley. He is a historian of Persianate South Asia (c. 1200-1900) with expertise in the history of the Mughal empire and is interested in questions of intellectual history and the history of concepts; early modern global history; religion, politics and the city; and more generally in the continuities between precolonial and postcolonial south Asia. Prof. Kaicker's first book, The King the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi (OUP 2020) shows how ordinary urbanites emerged as assertive political subjects in the Mughal capital of Shahjahanabad (Delhi) over the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is now engaged in two new major research projects: one, a prehistory of the British conquest of Bengal in 1757 from the perspective of the Mughal empire; and another on the transformation of Mughal modes of popular politics into modern modes of communalism in North India under colonial rule in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Prof. Kaicker is editor of the Journal of South Asian Intellectual History, a new peer-reviewed venue for emerging conversations on the intellectual history and culture of premodern South Asia. Read more about Prof. Kaicker HERE.
Nishita Jha is a Global Womens Rights reporter for BuzzFeed News, based in Delhi. Read some of Nishita Jha's writings HERE.
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Event made possible with the support of the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies
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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
