Year 4: The 'Long' 1950s
Published on: Apr 17, 2007

Fellows

  • Deeptha Achar
    MS University of Baroda, India
    "Tracking Work in Education in the Long 1950s"

  • Oscar Amarasinghe
    University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka
    "Fish and People to Market: Blue Revolution and Changes in Social Relations in Sri Lankan Fisheries in the long 1950s"

  • Tapan Basu
    Hindu College, India
    "The Writings of BR Ambedkar and the Construction of Dalit Cultural Politics"

  • Santosh Dash
    Arts and Commerce College, India
    "Proposal for Writing a Critical Introduction to the English Translation of Vananchal"

  • Vaishali Diwakar
    St. Mira's College, India
    "Imagining the Nation: Negotiating Regional and Gender Identities in the 1950s"

  • T.T. Haokip
    North Eastern Hill University, India
    "Democratization and Ethnic Relations: A Study of Myanmar (1948-1962)"

  • Nalani Hennayake
    University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
    "Completing Ideologies of Development: A Legacy of 1956 Politics"

  • Mala Lalvani
    University of Mumbai, India
    "Political Economy of Sugar Co-operatives in Maharashtra: A Look Back at the Fifties"

  • Salma Malik
    Quaid i Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
    "Pakistan: A Praetorian State or Crisis of Governance?"

  • Fazal Rahim Marwat
    University of Peshawar, Pakistan
    "Allah, America and Army in Pakistani Politics: A Pashtun Response"

  • Yogesh Ram Misra
    Nepal Engineering College, Nepal
    "History as Mindscapes: Memory of the Peasants' Movement of Nepal during the Long 1950s"

  • Jagath Munasinghe
    University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
    "Nationalising vs. Internationalisng: The Duality in the Context and the content of Town Planning in Post Colonial South Asia"

  • Shiva Rijjal
  • Padmakanya University, Nepal
    "Modern Theatre in Nepal: A New Historical Reading"

  • Sayed Wikar Shah
    Quaid i Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
    "The 'Long' 1950s: Politics of 'One Unit' and its reprecussions on Pakistan"

  • Chitra Sinha
    RJ College, India
    "Law and the Public Gaze: The Hindu Code Bill Controversy in the 1940s and 1950s"

  • Bhabananda Takhellambam
    C. I. College, India
    "Manipur: Recent History and Contemporary Crisis"

  • Nadeem Omar Tarar
    National College of Arts, Pakistan
    "Modern Art and Identity in Pakistan: A Discourse Analysis of the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan"

  • Gita Viswanath
    MS University of Baroda, India
    "Nation and Nationalism in Hindi Cinema"
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