Women's History of Colonial Spaces in India School of English and School of Art History Joint Research Seminar

Join the School of English and the School of Art History for a joint Research Seminar on Women's History of Colonial Spaces in India with Dr Yashaswinini Chandra (Lecturer in South Asian Art History, University of Edinburgh) in The Kennedy Hall, Garden Seminar at 5pm.

This seminar is on Dr. Chandra's research towards a monograph comprising a women's history of colonial India related as intimate experiences intertwined with colonial spaces. The research includes identifying a typology of women who played various roles in shaping the colonial experience, from the Company period to the Crown (that is, mid-18th to mid-20th century), and interrogating the nature of their involvement and subjectivity. The project's scope includes both European and Indian women, adding dimensions of race and class to gender. Their experiences will be examined in relation to a range of spaces shared or constituted by them, encompassing segments of the Indian landscape itself, as well as the colonial built environment. The aim is to write an alternative history of colonialism in India as a gendered lived experience.