The Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies (LCVS) are pleased to bring you the next in their series of #LCVSVirtual events with a live online talk with historian and Leeds Trinity PhD graduate, Animesh Chatterjee.
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Short Abstract:
Animesh will discuss the multiple and multifaceted political and cultural meanings of electric supply and electric technologies such as lighting and fans in colonial Calcutta. Utilising a range of archival sources – English and Bengali newspapers, electrical trade journals, public lectures, short-lived Bengali periodicals, and Bengali satire – Animesh reveals electricity as a site for ideological contestations between promoters, the colonial state, and varied sections of Anglo-Indian, and Bengali middle-class gentlemanly or bhadralok (gentlefolk) societies. Animesh will investigate from several different textual, cultural and political angles how diverse meanings of electricity emerged, and how such viewpoints were never confined to technological or scientific matters, but were deployed, often polemically, in discussions of class and social identities, domesticity, nationalism(s), and colonialism.
When?
Tuesday 28 July, 1.00 – 2.00pm
Where?
In compliance with social distancing guidelines, this session will be delivered remotely through a Zoom meeting.
How can I attend?
To register your interest in attending this event, please email LCVS Co-Director Jane de Gay j.degay@leedstrinity.ac.uk
Further details:
Animesh Chatterjee recently graduated with a doctorate from Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies at Leeds Trinity University. His main research interest centres on social and cultural histories of electric supply and electrical technologies in colonial Calcutta/India. In addition to working on publishing the findings of his doctoral thesis, he is currently exploring issues of class and social identities, and economic thrift in discussions and debates between suppliers and consumers over meter readings and electrical theft in early twentieth-century colonial Calcutta.