SASC Brown Bag Series: Banking on the Countryside: Peasant Proprietors and the Cultivation of Value; Meghna Chaudhuri

Event time: 
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Rosenkranz Hall (RKZ ), 241 See map
115 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Meghna Chaudhuri is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at NYU. Her dissertation reconstructs the relationship between life insurance and forms of agrarian finance in colonial India. The project argues that this relationship reveals a longer history of the developmentalist state in South Asia, and its role in the global emergence of a discourse on agrarian hinterlands as spaces of absence, that continues to mark contemporary understandings of financial inclusion across the Global South. Her research is a materially informed intellectual history of the forms of value creation that produced and were produced by changing conceptions of value, and values – such as hard work, thrift and foresight – over the course of a 170 years. Her research reflects her interest in cultures of risk, national economics, and the history of science. Prior to pursuing a PhD at NYU, Meghna completed an MA and an MPhil in Modern South Asian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Meghna Chaudhuri, Hisotry, New York University

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