Film Screen­ing After numer­ous screen­ings in Ger­many and abroad, Anan­di­ta Bajpai’s film “The Sound of Friend­ship: Warm Wave­lengths in a Cold, Cold War” is return­ing to Berlin. Place: Brot­fab­rik Kino,… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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,… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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.… Read More

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,… Read More