This conversation was recorded on 14th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Manan Ahmed and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York.
Manan Ahmed is a historian of South Asia and the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. His areas of specialization include intellectual history in South and Southeast Asia; critical philosophy of history, colonial and anti-colonial thought. He is interested in how modern and pre-modern historical narratives create understandings of places, communities, and intellectual genealogies for their readers. He is the author, most recently, of "The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India" (Harvard University Press, 2020).
Manan Ahmed Selected Reading: Idols in the Archive
To know more about the exhibition visit - https://veralistcenter.org/exhibitions/owed-to-a-certain-emptiness/
To know more about Conflictorium visit - https://www.conflictorium.org/
