Periodic Reporting for period 2 - TIMEHIST (Timely Histories: A Social History of Time in South Asia)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2022-07-01 do 2023-12-31
The scope of the project is wide and hence keeping feasibility in mind we organized events with varying focus in each of them. For instance, in October 2021, we organized a workshop, Early Modern Temporalities, to specifically address the concerns of time and temporality in the early modern period of South Asia. In June 2022, we collaborated with CeMIS (University of Goettingen), in organising The Time and Space of Railways, a conference in which modern technologies and industrial work organisation, with deep bearing on time-standardisation and time-discipline, were addressed. In the last one year, the project has moved from its formative to intermediate level where some members have finished considerable parts of their archival research and have written drafts of chapters and articles. This was also the time when such findings were presented to the larger academic community in various established conferences such as the European Social Science History Congress (Gothenburg, April 2023) and European Conference on South Asian Studies (Turin, July 2023). Besides, in October 2022, we also organized the first international conference of TIMEHIST at Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, in which more than twenty-five participants presented their papers.
The main results at the time of the reporting are: satisfactory progress of doctoral and postdoctoral work in terms of preparation of draft chapters and journal-articles; and, organization of three main events (workshops and conferences) from which presentations are now being processed for future publications.
The expected results include two doctoral theses; five to seven peer-reviewed individual journal articles; and two to four edited volumes or special issues in prestigious journals. The result also includes a blog with thematic and methodological pieces. It is highly possible that by the end of the project Sengupta would have significant parts of his draft monograph written.