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SUMMARY:Indian Arrivals\, 1870-1915 - Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World L
 iterature in English\, University of Oxford)\, Megan Robb (Junior Research
  Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies\, University of Oxford)\, Fai
 sal Devji (University Reader in Modern South Asian History\, University of
  Oxford)\, Santanu Das (Reader of English Literature\, Kings College Londo
 n)\, Professor James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth H
 istory\, University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English\, Uni
 versity of Oxford) will discuss her book Indian Arrivals\, 1870-1915: Netw
 orks of British Empire with Megan Robb (Junior Research Fellow at Oxford C
 entre for Islamic Studies\, University of Oxford)\, Faisal Devji (Universi
 ty Reader in Modern South Asian History\, University of Oxford) and Santan
 u Das (Reader of English Literature\, Kings College London). The discussio
 n will be introduced and chaired by Professor James Belich (Beit Professor
  of Imperial and Commonwealth History\, University of Oxford).\n\nAbout th
 e book\nElleke Boehmer's book Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of Briti
 sh Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural con
 tact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire\,
  as reflected in a range of literary writing\, including poetry and life-w
 riting. The book's four decade-based case studies\, leading from 1870 and 
 the opening of the Suez Canal\, to the first years of the Great War\, inve
 stigate from several different textual and cultural angles the central pla
 ce of India in the British metropolitan imagination at this relatively ear
 ly stage for Indian migration. Focussing on a range of remarkable Indian '
 arrivants' -- scholars\, poets\, religious seekers\, and political activis
 ts including Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu\, Mohandas Gandhi and Rabindrana
 th Tagore -- Indian Arrivals examines the take-up in the metropolis of the
  influences and ideas that accompanied their transcontinental movement\, i
 ncluding concepts of the west and of cultural decadence\, of urban moderni
 ty and of cosmopolitan exchange.\n\n"Elleke Boehmer blends the delicate in
 sights of the literary critic with the art of the storyteller to investiga
 te the arrivals of Indian writers\, scholars and students in London in the
  late nineteenth century." - Santanu Das (Reader in English Literature\, K
 ings College London).\n\nA light sandwich lunch will be available from 12:
 45\, and sandwiches can be taken into the discussion. No advance booking r
 equired\, please just come along and seats will be allocated on a first-co
 me\, first-served basis.\n\nSpeakers:\nElleke Boehmer (Professor of World 
 Literature in English\, University of Oxford)\, Megan Robb (Junior Researc
 h Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies\, University of Oxford)\, Fa
 isal Devji (University Reader in Modern South Asian History\, University o
 f Oxford)\, Santanu Das (Reader of English Literature\, Kings College Lond
 on)\, Professor James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth 
 History\, University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Radcliffe Humanities (Seminar Room)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
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 f World Literature in English\, University of Oxford)\, Megan Robb (Junior
  Research Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies\, University of Oxfo
 rd)\, Faisal Devji (University Reader in Modern South Asian History\, Univ
 ersity of Oxford)\, Santanu Das (Reader of English Literature\, Kings Coll
 ege London)\, Professor James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commo
 nwealth History\, University of Oxford)
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