International Conference Servants Pasts, 16th to 20th Century Date: 16 18 February 2017 Venue: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi Organisers: Charu Gupta (Dept. of History, University of Delhi), Ravikant (CSDS, Delhi), Nitin Varma (Re: work, Humboldt University), Nitin Sinha (ZMO, Berlin). Contact: erc.servants@googlemail.com
16 18 February 2017. 16.02.17 9.30 9.50 : Registration and Tea 9.50 10.00 : Introduction 10.00 11.00 : Keynote by Raffaella Sarti (University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy) 11.00 12.10 : Mughal Households Chair: Prabhu Mohapatra (University of Delhi) Chair: Pankaj Kumar Jha (University of Delhi) M. Sajjad Alam Rizvi (Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata) Domestic Servants in Mughal South Asia. Shivangini Tandon (Centre for Women s Studies, Aligarh Muslim University) Elite Households and Domestic Servants in Early Modern Biographical Narratives (Tazkiras), 17th-18th Centuries. 12.10 12.20 : Tea Break 12.20 13.30 : Rajput Households Chair: Sunil Kumar (University of Delhi) Geetanjali Tyagi (Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi) Household, Domesticity and Service: Exploring Affiliations and Friendships within the Janani Deorhi in Early Modern Jodhpur. Priyanka Khanna (Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi) Service, Sex and Sentiments: Concubines in the Early Modern Rajput Household of Marwar.
13.30 14.30 : Lunch 14.30 16.15 : Bibis & Ayahs Chair: Tanika Sarkar (Retired Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, Delhi) Ruchika Sharma (Department of History, Garage College, University of Delhi) My Faithful Servant : Concubinage, and Mixed Race Households in Early Colonial Bengal. Satyasikha (History Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Queer Labors, Immoral Attachments and Domestic Respectability: Early Colonial Invention of the Indian Ayah. Nitin Varma (Re:Work, Humboldt University, Berlin) Divorce Trials and Servant Testimonies in Colonial India. 16.15 16.30 : Tea Break 16.30 17.40 : Who are Servants Chair: Samita Sen (School of Women s Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Nitin Sinha (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin) The unaccounted marginal: Servant Problem in early colonial India Lakshmi Subramanian (Centre for Studies of Social Sciences, Kolkata) Servants and Masters: Manifestations of Transition Politics in Surat 1750-1800. Conference Dinner.
17.02.17 9.30 11.30 : 1st planned session - Across Temporality Chair: Prathama Banerjee (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi) Uma Chakravarti (University of Delhi) Najaf Haider (Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, Delhi) Sunil Kumar (University of Delhi) Samita Sen (School of Women s Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata) 11.30 11.50 : Tea Break 11.50 13.00 : Colonial Morality Chair: Awadhendra Sharan (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi) Jana Tschurenev (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen) Domestic Service and Normative Femininity: Poor European Girls Education in India, 1780s-1830s. Jessica Hinchy (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Service, Discipleship and Slavery in Nineteenth Century Accounts of Hijra Households and Lost Childhoods. 13.00 14.00 : Lunch
14.00 15.10 : Servants in Hindi Vernacular Chair: Ravikant (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi) Charu Gupta (Department of History, University of Delhi) Domestic Anxieties, Recalcitrant Intimacies: Caste, Religion and Servants Representations in Hindi Print Culture of Colonial India. Prabhat Kumar (Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata) Sketching Domestic Servants in Hindi. 15.10 15.30 : Tea Break 15.30 17.15: Institutions & Mobilities Chair: Lucy Delap (University of Cambridge) Tanika Sarkar (Retired Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, Delhi) Becoming Mehtar: Corporation Sweepers and Scavengers in Colonial Calcutta. Olivia Robinson (University of Oxford) Nurses of our Ocean Highways : Travelling Ayahs and the Navigation of Gender, Race and Empire. Shalini Grover (School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh) Liberalization s Educated Female Domestic Workers: Transational Employers, Social Mobility and Intersectionality in Postcolonial India. Conference Dinner.
18.02.17 9.30 10.40: Across Popular Cultures Chair: Rakesh Pandey (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi) Ravikant (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi) Ramu Kaka vs. Raheem Chacha: Cinematic Servants' Cultural Moorings. Camille Buat (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen & Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, France) Labor Market Segmentation, Circulation and Representation of Work: Exploring the concept of Naukri in the Bidesiya tradition. 10.40 10.50 : Tea Break 10.50 12.00 : Servants in Medical Discourse Chair: Charu Gupta (University of Delhi) Saurav Kumar Rai (Department of History, University of Delhi) Spreading the Disease: Late Colonial Ayurvedic Discourse on Servants. Sharmita Ray (Hansraj College, University of Delhi) The Polluting Presence at Birth: Analyzing Midwifery in Late Nineteenth Century Bengal. 12.00 13.30 : 2nd planned session - Across Regions Lunch and departure Chair: Lakshmi Subramanian (Centre for Studies of Social Sciences, Kolkata) Raffaella Sarti (University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy) Lucy Delap (University of Cambridge) Prabhu Mohapatra (University of Delhi)