After twelve years, the DFG long-term project “Mod­ern India in Ger­man Archives” (MIDA) will come to an end in Octo­ber 2026. At our clos­ing con­fer­ence, enti­tled “Über MIDA hin­aus”, we will look back on the achieve­ments of the past twelve years, whilst also look­ing ahead to the future. MIDA set itself the task of mak­ing the rich­ness of hold­ings in Ger­man archives on the his­to­ry of mod­ern India vis­i­ble and sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly trace­able for the peri­od from 1706 – the start of the Dan­ish-Halle Mis­sion – to 1989 – the end of the Ger­man two-state sys­tem. This endeav­our was under­pinned by the con­vic­tion that the schol­ar­ly poten­tial lying dor­mant in these col­lec­tions far exceeds the cur­rent state of research.

Above all, how­ev­er, the con­fer­ence aims to look to the future and explore the fur­ther poten­tial that Ger­man archives offer for research­ing the his­to­ry of Ger­man-Indi­an rela­tions. In our view, it is cru­cial for long-term projects such as MIDA that they leave behind a lega­cy that con­tin­ues to have an impact and yields results upon which future research can build. Through book reviews and research pan­els, the con­fer­ence aims to explore this poten­tial whilst also putting the results of MIDA to good use as a start­ing point for fur­ther research.

The con­fer­ence will be held in German.

Reg­is­ter by 15 June at martin.christof-fuechsle[at]cemis.uni-goettingen.de.

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