[Reader-list] [announcements] Change of venue for Dr. Ritu Birla's talk

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PUKAR



cordially invites you to a talk

 

by Dr. Ritu Birla

 

on

 

Neoliberalism and the Good Colonial Subject: 

Lost Histories of Law, Capitalism and Colonialism in India's Present

 

 

Date:           Wednesday, March 22, 2006

 

Time:           6:30 PM 

 

Venue:         Fourth floor, Kitab Mahal

                    Near Exelsior Cinema, D. N. Road, Fort, Mumbai - 01

                  



Popular discourse today reiterates ubiquitously that the India's rise as global capitalist powerhouse has much to do with its colonial history, and specifically, with the implementation of the rule of law and contract in the 19th century.  Drawing from a forthcoming book, Hedging Bets, which charts the history of law, capitalism and market governance in colonial India, this lecture will address what we forget when we remember Indian capitalism as seamless transition into modernity.





Dr. Ritu Birla is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, flagship St. George campus.  She holds degrees in History from the University of Cambridge and Columbia University. Her research and writing addresses Modern South Asian history; history of law and capitalism; postcolonial studies and historiography; and political and feminist theory.  Her forthcoming book is entitled Hedging Bets: Law, Market Ethics, and the Staging of Capital in Late Colonial India (Duke University Press). 



 

(Kindly note that the venue for this talk is KITAB MAHAL and not NGMA Auditorium as mentioned in the earlier mail)


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