Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and lecture hosted by the Department of Asian Studies at UBC as part of the 2nd Annual Celebration of Punjabi in honour of the memory of Harjit K. Sidhu, Professor Farina Mir explores the contours of a colonial-era Punjabi literary formation in India. That is, those individuals who shared in the practices of producing, circulating, performing, and consuming Punjabi literary texts. She will argue that the Punjabi literary formations pragmatic engagements with colonial institutions were far less important than the affective attachments its adherents established with a place, with an old but dynamic corpus of stories, and with the moral sensibility that suffused those stories.
Biography of Speaker
Dr. Farina Mir is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She holds a B.A. (magna cum laude, 1993) from Barnard College in English literature and Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures. She received her Ph.D. in History, with distinction, from Columbia University in 2002. Trained as a historian of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, her research has focused on the social, cultural, and religious history of late-colonial north India.
Selected Articles Available at UBC Library
Mir, F. (2006). Imperial policy, provincial practices: Colonial language policy in nineteenth-century india. The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 43(4), 395-427. [Link]
Mir, F. (2006). Genre and devotion in punjabi popular narratives: Rethinking cultural and religious syncretism.Comparative Studies in Society and History, 48(3), 727-758. [Link]
Mir, F. (2005). Ann grodzins gold and bhoju ram gujar. in the time of trees and sorrows: Nature, power and memory in rajasthan. durham: Duke university press, 2002. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 47(4), 892-896. [Link]
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