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Team Research week in London: Joint Report December 3-7, 2018
No full textNandini Chatterjee; Elizabeth Thelen; Dominic Vendell Nandini Chatterjee reports: In this week, Elizabeth Thelen, Dominic Vendell and I worked together in London – mainly at the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society’s library – with the aim of surveying and analysing Indo-Persianate manuals across multiple genres. The idea was to work towards a project workshop on manuals that we are planning to hold in 2020, and thus we were aiming to actively think about which kinds of texts may..
Work with Forms of Law in the Persian World Project
No full textGuest post by Mr Khizar Jawad This year, August 2017-August 2018, had been incalculably prolific, firstly, to work on one hundred thousand Persian documents of Khalsa Darbar record of Sikh rule in Punjab, 1799-1849, placed at the Punjab Archives Lahore and, secondly, to work with Dr Nandini Chatterjee in UK as part of her Law Forms project to explore the Darbar Record and related English, Hindi, Urdu, Shahmukhi, and Gurumukhi documents. Khalsa Darbar Record is about the economic managem..
A Mughal archive: the Inayat Jung Collection, NAI, New Delhi
No full textNandini chatterjee The National Archives of India, New Delhi I worked in the National Archives of India, New Delhi, 8-18 January, 2020. Besides dreadful pollution, which made wearing a medical grade mask essential when out and about, the city was also being rocked by protests by students, women and other activists, protesting against the Government of India's newly passed laws proposing a National Population Register, National Register of Citizens and Citizenship Amendment Act. Women an..
Exploring Perso-Marathi connections
No full textGuest post by Dr Prachi Deshpande This February 2018, I spent a very productive and insightful couple of weeks in the UK, working with Dr. Nandini Chatterjee as part of her Lawforms Project. I am a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Maharashtra, and my broad interests are in Marathi language practices. I am especially interested in Marathi scribal culture and the broad gamut of Marathi documentary forms and conventions written in the cursive Modi script first under the Maratha ..
Documents and diplomacy: a conversation
No full text Participants Nandini Chatterjee, University of Exeter Guido van Meersbergen, University of Warwick Leonard Hodges, King’s College London Callie Wilkinson, University of Warwick Dominic Vendell, University of Exeter This past Thursday, 25 March, as we await better opportunities to resume crossing borders – physical, disciplinary and otherwise – a group of scholars working on issues related to diplomacy in South Asia gathered to discuss the current and future state of diplomatic history. Mo..
Forms of Law and Digital Editing
No full textBy Dr Lizzy Williamson (Digital Humanities Lead) In 2019, Nandini Chatterjee, Elizabeth Thelen and Dominic Vendell began the text encoding work that will result in the online publication of a selection of early modern Persianate legal texts. As Digital Humanities Lead on this project, I am enabling this work through training the editorial team in text encoding, developing the editorial guidelines and encoding schema that we will follow, and creating the resulting online edition, which will al..
Collaboration with Leiden/Nijmegen project on the 'Hidden History of Colonialism'
No full textNandini Chatterjee Right at the start of the lockdowns imposed by our various countries due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, we had a conference in Leiden cancelled. We have been particularly looking forward to this, because we had planned with meet with members of another research team on the sidelines, to discuss potential collaboration. That research team consists of the members of the NWO-funded Colonialism Inside Out project, led by Alicia Schrikker (Leiden University) and Dries Lyn..
Red fort documents: Edward Colebrooke's letter
No full textPosted by Nandini Chatterjee On behalf of Prof. Chander Shekhar The Red Fort's collection of Persian documents continues to tell us much about the colonial use of the Persian language and the evolution of letter-writing and legal drafting styles. The mammoth series, Calendar of Persian Correspondence, recently republished by Primus books with introductions and annotations by Professor Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, have alerted scholars to the continued used of Persian for diplomatic ..
Fragments and archives: conversations in UvA, Charlottesville
No full textFahad Bishara, in conversation with Nandini Chatterjee In October 2018, I visited the beautiful University of Virginia at Charlottesville, to discuss the project and its activities with one of the key team members, the upcoming star of legal history, Prof. Fahad Bishara. HIs first book, A Sea of Debt, is deservedly making waves! Notes from our conversations were written up by Fahad, in his inimitable style. ******* How do we take scattered and disconnected pieces of paper and make br..
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