Scotland and the Indian Subcontinent
ESHSS Spring Conference, Wednesday 21 March 2012, Glasgow. Programme and Booking Form Now Available!
Venue: SYHA Conference Suite, 7/8 Park Terrace, Glasgow G3 6BY – within easy walking distance of Charing Cross and Glasgow University
Provisional Programme
9.00am Registration
9.30am Welcome
9.40am Materialities
Dr Stana Nenadic (University of Edinburgh)
Exhibiting India in nineteenth-century Scotland and the Impact on Industry and Design
Prof Jim Tomlinson (University of Dundee)
Responding to Indian competition: the Dundee jute industry, c. 1880-1939
Suchitra Choudhury (University of Glasgow)
The Paisley Shawl in Literature
11.10am Coffee
11.30am Interfaces
Kang-yen Chiu (University of Glasgow)
Hospitality, Orientalism and Empire in Walter Scott’s The Surgeon’s Daughter
Dr Anup Shekhar Chakraborty (St Josephs’ College, Darjeeling, and London School of Economics)
Missionaries, Mercenaries and Mountains: Construing the Scottish influence in the British colonial encounter in North Eastern India
Lindy Moore (Independent Historian)
Opposing Imperialism and Racism: Aberdeen and the Indian subcontinent
1.00pm Buffet lunch
1.45pm Elite Networks
Prof Alister Mutch (Nottingham Trent University)
Scotland, India and Madeira: the career of General Patrick Duff
Dr Di Drummond (Leeds Trinity University)
Lord Dalhousie’s Minutes and Memorandum: The British ‘Civilizing Mission and the Railways of India
Dr George McGilvary (University of Edinburgh)
Commercial Exploits of Scots in India 1770s -1840s
3.15pm Coffee
3.30pm Improvement and Imposition
Ellen Filor (University of Warwick)
At Home in Empire: Setting up house in Colonial India, c. 1770-1850
Joanna Frew (University of Essex)
Scottish backgrounds and Indian Experiences: Scottish administrators and the Scottish Enlightenment in Rural South India, 1792-99
Dr Mitch Numark, (California State University Sacramento)
The Scottish 'Discovery' of Jainism in the Nineteenth Century: Scottish Missionaries, 'the Jain Religion,' and the Jains of Colonial Bombay.
4.50pm Closing remarks
ESHSS Member’s rates - £20; Student/PG/unwaged - £15
Non-member’s rates - £25; Student/PG/unwaged - £20
Bookings close on 7 March (bookings will be accepted after this date at a £10 supplement subject to places still being available)
Buffet lunch, morning and afternoon tea/coffee included.
Publication: Speakers may be invited to submit full versions of their papers to the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies for consideration for publication.