[Reader-list] An Environmental History of Delhi: Talk by Awadhendra Sharan

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

& India Habitat Centre**

invite you to a talk

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*An Environmental History of Delhi*

by *Awadhendra Sharan*



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*Chair: **Ravi Sundaram*

Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 7 pm


Gulmohar Hall,

                   RSVP

India Habitat Centre,
                                                                   Tel: 011
23942199

Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003
                                                     email: jaya at csds.in

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Over the last decade and more, environmental conditions of cities have
attracted the greatest attention in India, as indeed globally. My talk is a
contemporary history of this concern in Delhi, focused on matters of water
purity and sanitation and the contamination of air. The presentation is
oriented both to the past - analyzing the limits of the colonial
intervention in creating a modern and sanitary state of things - and to the
present, to consider the continuities and departures from the colonial
schema as we address contemporary environmental challenges in India’s
capital city.



Awadhendra Sharan is a Fellow at CSDS. Trained as a historian at Delhi
University and the University of Chicago, Sharan’s research is focused on
urban environmental issues.  His book *In the City, Out of Place. Nuisance,
Pollution and Dwelling in Delhi * c. 1850-2000 is due to be shortly
published by Oxford University Press, Delhi.



Ravi Sundaram* *is a Senior Fellow at CSDS and the author of *Pirate
Modernity: Delhi’s Media Urbanism*.

Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
Fax: 91-11-23943450
www.csds.in
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