Event — Modern South Asia Seminar Series
The Making of the Indian Buddha: A Social History in Bare Bones
In this talk Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar examines the making of nationalist claims on the body of the Buddha at the turn of the twentieth century.
In this talk Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar (IIAS fellow and Associate Professor, Brown University) examines the making of nationalist claims on the body of the Buddha at the turn of the twentieth century, amidst contending civilizational and scientific claims. This subject forms a part of her larger work on archaeological imagination, war and history on the Indo-Afghan borderlands.
Drinks & snacks afterwards