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Lecture Sanjay Kumar Sharma

Date: 
1 November 2016
Location: 
IISH, Posthumus Room, 15.00 hours

On November 1st Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Ambedkar University Delhi,  will give a lecture on: Cooked Food as Deterrence: Managing Prisons and Famine Relief in Colonial India

Profile: Dr. Sanjay Sharma is a historian, translator and media practitioner. He was educated in Allahabad University (B.A.), Jawaharlal Nehru University (M.A.), Delhi University (M.Phil) and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Ph.D). He does research on aspects of famine, relief, food security, drought, environmental degradation, state welfarism and philanthropy in modern India. He is also interested in issues of poverty, hunger, diet, disease, malnutrition, health and medicine in the colonial period. His wider areas of interest include state formation, popular culture, language and media in northern India. He has been engaged with comparative histories of India, China and Europe.

IISH Seminar
This lecture is part of the monthly IISH Seminar series. In principle, seminars take place every first Tuesday of the month. The seminar is open to the public, but with regard to accommodation and distribution of the paper in advance, we would like you to register with Jacqueline Rutte, jru@iisg.nl.  You will receive the paper after registration. After the lecture we serve drinks. We are looking forward to meeting you.