Projekte - Mida

Materialising Visibility, Preparing Recognition: The ‘cultural’ politics of GDR-India relations, 1952–1972

Dr. Anandita Bajpai

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open

The German Democratic Republic was officially recognized by the Indian government in 1972. The trade representations established in 1956, however, became the ‘official mouthpiece’ of the GDR in India. Contacts… Read More

South Asia as a Cold War Arena — The two German States and India in the Bangladesh Liberation War 1971

Alexander Benatar

Ph.D. project The early 1970s saw two opposing trends in Europe and South Asia: while German-German détente was able to overcome the limitations of the Cold War, the Indian subcontinent… Read More

Indo-German Intellectual History — Religion and Spirituality in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic (1871–1933)

Dr. Martin Christof-Füchsle

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The project aims at furthering the analysis of processes of entanglements between India and Germany in the sphere of intellectual history. The focus is on the developments in the era… Read More

From Berlin to Delhi: Education, Intellectual Exchange and Politics of Translation in the life and writings of Sayyid Abid Husain (1896–1978)

Dr. des. Razak Khan

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My research project examines the entangled nature of Indo-German intellectual history. I explore intellectual and cultural translations in the sphere of reform pedagogy or “New Education“ dominant at the turn… Read More

DAS MODERNE INDIEN IN DEUTSCHEN ARCHIVEN 1706-1989

Von der DFG gefördertes Langfristprogramm