Nandita Prasad Sahai memorial lecture by Prof Muzaffar Alam

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FYI

This is to invite you to the Fifth Nandita Prasad Sahai Memorial Lecture which will be held on the   8th August at 3:30 pm at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library auditorium, Teen Murti.

The lecture will be delivered by  Professor Muzaffar Alam, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.

The title of the lecture is  ' Whatever the tongue, what counts is the idea' : Persian-Hindavi Encounters in the Age of Mughal Decline'

We will be very happy if you could attend the lecture. A brief bio about Professor Alam is below

Warm regards,

Sanjiv and Garima

MUZAFFAR Alam is

George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations

He is a historian trained at Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi), Aligarh Muslim University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), where he obtained his doctorate in history in 1977. Before joining the SALC at the University of Chicago in 2001, he taught for three decades at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has held visiting positions in the Collège de France (Paris), Leiden University, University of Wisconsin (Madison), and the EHESS (Paris). His working languages include Persian, Arabic, Hindi and Urdu. Professor Alam has taught courses on the history of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal empire, and he has also worked closely with students on advanced Urdu and Persian literary and historical texts.