Organised by: Alaka Atreya Chudal
Program:
13 June 2024
16:30 Welcome: Jim Rheingans
16:45 Introduction: Alaka Atreya Chudal
17:00-17:30 Anirudh Deshpande, Delhi University
“The Indian Army 1850-1950: Continuity and Change”
17:30-18:30 Shrabani Basu, Journalist and historian, London, UK
“Turbans in the Trenches: Indian soldiers on the Western Front in the First World War”
Reception
14 June 2024
09:00-09:45 Britta Lange, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
“Ghost Stories”
9:45 -10:30 Alaka Atreya Chudal, University of Vienna
“The Voice of the Voiceless: South Asian Soldiers under German Internment in the First World War”
Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 Anirudh Deshpande, Delhi University
“The Indian Army Cinderella in Action: The Maratha Light Infantry in Mesopotamia During WWI”
11:45-12:30 Gavin Rand, Greenwich University
“Registers of Service: The commemoration and non-commemoration of Punjab's First World War”
Lunch Break
14:30-15:15 Ines Fornell, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
“Fighting and dying in trenches: Hindi and Urdu fiction on Indian soldiers in the First World War”
15:15-16:00 Alpana Mishra, Delhi University
“Sounds of the First World War in Premchand's literature”
16:00-16:30 Discuss and wrap up over Coffee
