UPCOMING EVENT: "Remembering Sarat Chandra Das's Legacy to Buddhist Studies in Colonial Bengal"

18th July marks the birth anniversary for Bengal’s first Tibetologist Sarat Chandra Das (1849-1917). Das’s achievements open a space for contestation, prompting a re-examination on the issues of the native knowledge and indigenous agency, thereby challenging the overwhelmingly Western and Euro-centric bias of knowledge produced on Tibet through the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Das’s own knowledge was concomitant on those of his Sikkimese and Tibetan collaborators. Such knowledges were locked in an oft-asymmetrical relationship of power, even as the agencies of several native figures were circumscribed by the British colonial machinery of knowledge-production.

On this day Voyages Into the Past would like to cordially invite you to a talk by Dr. Parjanya Sen, Assistant Professor in English at Deshbandhu College for Girls, University of Calcutta and Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies Early-Career Research Fellow, titled “Remembering Sarat Chandra Das’s Legacy to Buddhist Studies in Colonial Bengal” on 18th July, Friday, 2 pm onwards, at the A.K. Basak Auditorium, Presidency University (College Street Campus, Kolkata)

Entry is free and open to all. Please carry an ID card along with you if attending.