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Seminar on Academic Knowledge: Past and Future

"European Knowledge in Indian Tongues": Translating Political Economy in Colonial Delhi, c. 1840

December 2, 2021
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Virtual/RSVP Required
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Osama Siddiqui
Speaker
Osama Siddiqui
Assistant Professor, History and Classics Department, Providence College
Gili Kliger
Discussant
Gili Kliger
Postdoctoral College Fellow, Harvard University; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair

Charles Clavey
Charles Clavey
Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University; Seminar Co-chair & Thesis Workshop Organizer, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
 
December 2, 2021
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Virtual/RSVP Required

This seminar examines early efforts to translate European economic ideas into Indian languages. Focusing on colonial Delhi in the 1830s and 1840s, Osama Siddiqui shows that debates over how to translate scientific concepts into the Urdu language shaped the reception of European economic thought and, ultimately, enabled the formation of a new vernacular science of economic and social life in India.

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