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SUMMARY:Secrets and Lines: A Short History of Boundaries in India
DESCRIPTION:People never stop remaking the spaces they inhabit\, in languages and materials that shift with the times. In early modern India\, spatial practice encoded segregation and hierarchy\, but it also carried pleasure\, beauty\, and affect. \nFrom the nineteenth century\, India’s mapping history hardened into rigid visual\, legal\, and administrative lines\, often stripping out affect while retaining older structures of power. Historian Samira Sheikh\, Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University and the current Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science\, will deliver this year’s lecture series tracing that very history: from the missing archive of early modern mapping to the moment political boundaries entered Indian cartography. This final lecture completes the arc\, uncovering what survived beneath these lines. \nWhat happens to older spatial knowledge when a state redraws its lines? Where does affect go when power hardens into the administrative and the legal? And what does it mean for a practice to survive by living beneath\, beside\, and within a new order? \nThis lecture is part of the Obaid Siddiqi Lectures\, delivered annually by the Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science at the Archives at NCBS. \nImage Credit: Painted textile map of Gujarat (detail\, Champaner–Pavagadh). 18th century\, Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery\, Vadodara. Object no. GR 5631. \nIn collaboration with \n     \n\n\nThe 2026 Obaid Siddiqi Lectures\nRSVP here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaQ3mw1oPOtuxrXuMMPMGnQl20mNM-lt8BLYw6wDtDHQmLng/viewform?usp=pp_url)\n*Speaker*: Samira Sheikh\n*Event Categories*: Design\, Heritage\, History\, Society
URL:https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/secrets-and-lines-a-short-history-of-boundaries-in-india/
LOCATION:Bangalore International Centre\, 7\, 4th Main Road\, Domlur II Stage\, Bangalore\, Karnataka\, 560071\, India
CATEGORIES:Design,Heritage,History,Society
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