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 […]
Workshop “Violent Entanglements – Tracing Life and Loss in Colonial Archives”, 09.–10. April 2026
In April 2026, MIDA (Modern India in German Archives, 1706–1989) organized a two-day workshop with the title “Violent Entanglements – Tracing Life and Loss in Colonial Archives”. Abstract From the fifteenth century onward, European colonial expansion was inseparable from practices of documentation, classification, and record-keeping that rendered territories, peoples, and nonhuman life legible to imperial regimes, giving […]
MIDA Publications Used as Teaching Materials at the University of Delhi
Our advisory board member Vandana Joshi was invited as an expert and speaker for the workshop “Reconstructing the Past” as part of the interdisciplinary bachelor’s programme in the eighth semester by the Department of History at the University of Delhi. The workshop took place from 18 to 20 February 2026. As part of her presentation, she […]