Event

The Department of History presents “GANDHI: New Directions in Research – Possibilities and Problems”, a special guest lecture by Talat Ahmed, Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Edinburgh.  

The lecture takes place tomorrow, Thursday September 11, at 1.30pm, at Room SB1, 3^rd floor, Faculty of Humanities and Education.  

More about Talat Ahmed 

Talat Ahmed is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of modern South Asia. She is the author of Literature and Politics in the Age of Nationalism: the Progressive Episode in South Asia, 1932-56 (Routledge, India 2009), about the Progressive Writers Association. She is currently writing a volume for Pluto Press’s Revolutionary Lives Series entitled Mahatma Gandhi: India’s non-violent revolutionary? She is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a member of the British Association of South Asian Studies