History and Her Source

'Based on our recent endeavour published as Seeking History Through her Source, South of the Vindhyas (Orient Blackswan, 2022) this Workshop shall introduce participants to the fragment, the story, the poem among an array of other sources that come alive in writing the history of regions and localities of India. The aim is to highlight the centrality of unconventional sources and emphasize on the particularity of these sources to build a counter narrative that asserts its own individuality so that historical experiences of regions, localities and people are no longer treated in terms of a lack or, found to be totally absent in narratives on the history of India. In doing so we also positively seek to appeal to difference and project this as a desirable feature giving value to those whose identities neglected so far.

The Workshop shall interrogate (1) an earlier known source – coin or inscription—which may…