After several successful private screenings in Germany and India and very positive feedback in the international press, we are happy to announce that the film is now also being shown to an American audience. On the 8th of September, 2022, a private screening of the film followed by a Q&A session with Anandita Bajpai, the […]
(Workshop) Nodes of Translation: Rethinking Modern Intellectual History between South Asia and Germany
Nodes of Translation: Rethinking Modern Intellectual History between South Asia and Germany7–9 July 2022The Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Workshop registration: razak.khan@cemis.uni-goettingen.de The workshop examines the translation of key German texts into the modern languages of India and translations from the classical and vernacular languages of South Asia into German. Our key […]
Private Film Screenings & Book Launch – The Sound of Friendship & Cordial Cold War
After the premiere and several private screenings in Germany as well as the positive feedback in the international press, Anandita Bajpai’s film “The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War” was finally shown in India as well. The first event was organized and funded by The M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre […]
Workshop ‘Benjamin Schultze‘s dialogue book on Madras. A critical approach to a cultural-historical missionary source’
01. & 02.03.2022 Workshop organised by MIDA, (Das Moderne Indien in Deutschen Archiven) in Cooperation with the Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle. Introduction Benjamin Schultze (1689–1760) was one of the most prolific, but also most controversial missionaries of the Danish English-Halle Mission, which worked in South India in the 18th and early 19th century. His conversation book »The […]
Film screenings — The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War, a film by Anandita Bajpai, 19.10. & 21.11.2021
The film premiered on 19.10. in the hallowed halls of the Funkhaus — the erstwhile seat of Radio Berlin International (RBI) — which made the following podium discussion and Q&A with the director and former employees of RBI all the more special. See here for more information on the film. See below for some impressions from […]
Colloquium: Asian Industrialism, Labour Movements and Cultural Nationalism: Interwar contexts of German trade-union writings on “Working India”. By Prof. Dr. Ravi Ahuja. (Jan 19, 2021)
Department of Modern South Asian History Colloquium Asian Industrialism, Labour Movements and Cultural Nationalism: Interwar contexts of German trade-union writings on “Working India” Prof. Dr. Ravi Ahuja The 1920s saw a flurry of European trade-union delegations heading towards Asia. Among them was a joint delegation of British and German textile workers’ unions that visited India’s industrial districts […]
Coming soon: The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War? (Film)
The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War? A Film on Radio Berlin International in India A Film by: Anandita BajpaiFeaturing: Arvind Srivastav, Friedemann Schlender, Mahesh Jha, Sabine ImhofEditing and Camera (Berlin, Germany): Daniel GatzmagaCo-writing and Camera (Madhepura, India): Jyothidas Kelambath Vadakkina Description: The documentary film ‘The Sound of Friendship’ traces the trajectory of Radio […]
Workshop. Germans in 18th Century India. A Social History of Everyday Life
Workshop about „Germans in 18th Century India: A Social History of Everyday Life“ on December 12.–13. 2019 at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) in Göttingen.
Book presentation. Ravi Ahuja and Martin Christof-Füchsle (eds.). A Great War in South India. German Accounts of the Anglo-Mysore Wars
Buchvorstellung “A Great War in South India. German Accounts of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, 1766–1799” von Ravi Ahuja und Martin Christof-Füchsle (Hg.)
Einladung zur Buchvorstellung Ravi Ahuja and Martin Christof-Füchsle (eds.) (2019). A Great War in South India. German Accounts of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, 1766–1799. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. Donnerstag, 12.12.201918 Uhr c.t.Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen),Raum: 0.602 im KWZ Download der Einladung als PDF. Buchvorstellung Ravi Ahuja undMartin Christof-Füchsle (Hg.): A Great War in South […]
Germans in 18th Century India: A Social History of Everyday Life (Program and Abstracts)
Workshop Program The workshop program can be downloaded as PDF file here. Thursday, 12.12.2019 11:00–11:30 am Welcome and introductionRavi Ahuja, Michael Mann, Tobias Delfs 11:30–12:30 am Indian society in the 18th century through a German lensChen Tzoref-Ashkenazi, Berlin 12:30 am Lunch Career as a motivation for European Migration to India? 1:30–2:30 pm Motivations to migrate: Halle‘s Tranquebar […]
Launch of the MIDA Online Research Portal
The following report was first released in July 2019 as part of the ZMO Bulletin No. 36. In the fifth year of its existence, the DFG-funded, long-term project MIDA (Modernes Indien in Deutschen Archiven 1706–1989) celebrated the launch of its online research portal (Rechercheportal; https://www.projekt-mida.de/rechercheportal/). A public event was held on May 10 at the […]
Event: Launch of the MIDA Online Research Portal
Launch of the MIDA Online Research Portal. May 10, 2019, at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, in Berlin.
Das moderne Indien in deutschen Archiven (MIDA): Launch des Online-Archivportals (Veranstaltungsankündigung)
Freitag, 10. Mai 2019, 16 Uhr.Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin. MIDA ist ein von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) gefördertes Langfristvorhaben(Beginn 11/2014) unter Beteiligung des Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Göttingen, des Instituts für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften (IAAW) der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin sowie des Leibniz-Zentrums Moderner Orient (ZMO) Berlin. Sein Anliegen ist die […]
Workshop: Eine Sozialgeschichte des Alltags von Deutschen in der kolonialen Gesellschaft Indiens des “langen” 18. Jahrhunderts (12.–13. Dezember 2019)
Am 12.–13. Dezember 2019 in Göttingen. Schon an der europäischen Expansion des 15./16. Jahrhunderts nach Asien waren Deutsche beteiligt: Handelshäuser wie die Welser und Fugger ermöglichten den Portugiesen finanzielle Unterstützung für die Indienreisen und ab 1502/03 nahmen Deutsche unmittelbar daran teil. Mit dem Aufkommen der verschiedenen europäischen Ostindienkompanien verstärkte sich diese Entwicklung und gerade im 18. […]
International Workshop on The Politics of Doing Culture
International Workshop on The Politics Of ‘Doing Culture’: Entangled India and the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War. December 21–22.12.2018.
Entangled Archives: Perspectives from Modern India in German Archives (Report)
Entangled Archives: Perspectives from Modern India in German Archives, 27.09.2018 9:00–19:00, 28.09.2018 9:00–18:00, Department of South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstraße 118, Berlin. The first two Panels were dedicated to different institutions and actors whose actions can be raced through German archives. In Panel 1, which was chaired […]
Entangled Archives: Perspectives from Modern India in German Archives (September 27–28, 2018)
September 27–28, 2018; Department of South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstraße 118, Berlin. Conference Program: Day 1 (Thursday, 2018-09-27): 9:00 — 9:15Welcome and Introduction. Ravi Ahuja (Göttingen University) 9:15 — 11:00Panel 1: Entangled Knowledge: Institutions, Actors and Outcomes IChair: Angelika Malinar (Zurich University) Martin Christof-Füchsle (Göttingen University): Missionary and […]
Workshop “Entangled Muslim Networks in Europe, South Asia, and the Arab Middle East in the First Half of the 20th Century”
This two day workshop aims at depicting the connectivities of various Muslim individual intellectuals and communities in Europe, South Asia and the Arab Middle East that are often studied as isolated actors. The transnational nature of the archive and the comparative approach of the workshop will help in developing an entangled intellectual history. It is […]
MIDA auf dem 51. Historikertag in Hamburg, 20.–23.9.2016
Aus Anlass des 51. Deutschen Historikertags in Hamburg wurden Prof. Dr. Ravi Ahuja, Prof. Dr. Michael Mann und Svenja von Jan mit der Konzipierung, Organisation und Umsetzung der von MIDA, dem Historikerverband, der Handelskammer Hamburg sowie des Herbarium Hamburgense durchgeführten Ausstellung „Hamburg-Indien: Spuren einer Verflechtungsgeschichte“ (zum Ausstellungsplakat) betraut. Die Kabinettausstellung wurde vom 5.–30. September 2016 […]
Workshop zur Eröffnung der 1. Projektphase: 5.–6. November 2015
Am 5. und 6. November 2015 fand am Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin der Workshop zur Eröffnung des 1. Abschnitts der Projektphase des Langfristvorhabens statt. Den Auftakt bildete der öffentliche Vortrag von Dr. Indra Sengupta, GHI London: Scholarly Interlopers? German Indologists, British India and Colonial Knowledge: Using German university archives to study modern […]
Eröffnungsworkshop 30.–31. Januar 2015 (Bericht)
Am 30. und 31. Januar 2015 fand am Seminar für Südasien-Studien, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin die Eröffnungskonferenz des DFG-geförderten Langfristprojekts “Das moderne Indien in deutschen Archiven, 1706–1989” statt. Das Projekt hat offiziell am 1. November 2014 begonnen, wobei die Forschungen arbeitsteilig an drei in Göttingen und Berlin ansässigen Partner-Institutionen durchgeführt werden. […]