| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, October 28, 2011 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Jayeeta Sharma’s first book, Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India (Duke University Press’s Radical Perspectives book series and Permanent Black, 2011) examines the intersection of colonial tea capitalism with identity contestations in modern and contemporary India. This work links the study of coolie labour, missionary and gentry-generated print culture, and internal migration in South Asia to that of imperial commodities, cultural nationalism, and post-colonial politics of race, language, and ethnicity. She will speak about the writing of this book and the varieties of spaces and epistemes that it seeks to traverse.
Please read SUMIT SARKAR IN CONVERSATION WITH JAYEETA SHARMA here: http://permanent-black.blogspot.com/2011/10/sumit-sarkar-in-conversation-with.html
Jayeeta Sharma is an Assistant Professor in History at the University of Toronto. Born in Assam, she studied at the Universities of Delhi and Cambridge, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar. She is currently Program Director of the Global Asia Studies Program at the University of Toronto Scarborough and an active member of the editorial collective of Radical History Review.
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