Session I
Saturday, May 6
9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m
Social Sciences Tea Room
Session II
Saturday, May 6
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Social Sciences Tea Room
Session III
Sunday, May 7
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Social Sciences Tea Room
Session I
Steve Pincus / Sunit Singh
Introductions
Rupali Mishra
“‘The Disturbance and Disorder of our Nation’: The East India Company and the Government of the Factory in the Early Seventeenth Century”
Nicholas Wilson
“A Relational Theory of Corruption: On the Decline and Fall of Robert Clive”
Felicia Gottmann
Session II
Tiraana Bains
“Unsettling India: Settler Colonialism and South Asia, 1750-1800”
Anurag Sinha
“Sovereignty Unsettled: Early Company Rule in Bengal, c. 1765-1815”
Anirban Karak
“The Politics of Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Bengal: A Reappraisal”
Sunit Singh
“The Fox India Bill of 1783 Reconsidered”
Session III
Prasannan Parthasarathi
“Agriculture and Environment in Early Colonial Tamilnadu”
Spencer Leonard
“Marx, the India Question, and the Crisis of Cosmopolitan”
Closing Roundtable
Steve Pincus
Andrew Sartori
James Vaughn
Nota Bene
Papers will be pre-circulated. If you would like to attend the workshop and would like access to the papers, email the organizers, Steve Pincus (spincus@uchicago.edu) or Sunit Singh (sssingh@uchicago.edu).