Pandit, Dubash, Assistant: Language Mediation in the Linguistic Survey of India (1898-1928)

Name: Pandit, Dubash, Assistant: Language Mediation in the Linguistic Survey of India (1898-1928)
Start: Wednesday 5 March 2025
End: Wednesday 5 March 2025

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Date and time: Wednesday 5 March 2025, 1pm to 3pm
Admission: Free admission, booking required

Event details

Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome.

Date: Wednesday 5th March 13:00-15:00
Speaker: Dr. Purba Hossain (University of York)
Title: Pandit, Dubash, Assistant: Language Mediation in the Linguistic Survey of India (1898-1928)
Location: V/N/123

About the speaker: Purba Hossain is Lecturer in Modern History (post 1800) at the University of York. She holds a BA and MA from Presidency University (Kolkata, India) and a PhD from the University of Leeds. Before joining York, she held research fellowships at Christ’s College Cambridge, the Institute of Historical Research (London), and the Royal Historical Society. Purba is a historian of colonial India with an interest in how Indians negotiated life under colonial rule and contributed to imperial processes.

A zoom link will be made available for distance learning PhD students on request'

For further information please contact the convenors Dilnoza Duturaeva (dilnoza.duturaeva@york.ac.uk) and Ana María Otero-Cleves (anamaria.otero-cleves@york.ac.uk).