[Reader-list] [Announcements] Talk: Lost Histories of Law, Capitalism and Colonialism in India's Present

[Aarti]

*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:         NGMA auditorium, second floor,

                   Opposite the museum, M.G.Road, Mumbai

 

 

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). /

 

 

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