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Indian Traces in Oxford was an exhibition mounted in collaboration with the Bodleian Library, showcasing the remarkably wide range of textual and photographic traces or leavings of Indian students, activists, politicians, artists and others in the Bodleian special collections and College libraries, in the period 1870-1950. The exhibition opened with a half-day workshop, on 1 March 2010, in Convocation House, to be introduced by the acclaimed Indian novelist – and Oxford alumnus – Amitav Ghosh.\r\n\r\nIndian Traces at Oxford focuses in close detail on Indians' impact on Oxford University’s life and culture. Both the exhibition and the 1 March workshop considers the value and meaning of manuscript traces, how they reflect on the ways in which Indians and Britons interacted in the period, and how we are able to imagine the lives of these early Indian travellers to Oxford into these textual tracks and marks.
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| 7 | Creative Commons | Introduction and Reading | Opening of exhibition by Amitav Ghosh and a reading from his In an Antique Land. Introduced by Anshuman Mondal (Brunel). | Amitav Ghosh, Anshuman Mondal | 02 Mar 2010 |
| 6 | Creative Commons | Musings of Sir Mohammad Iqbal on the Place of Muslims in late Colonial India: Letters to Edward John Thompson, 1933-1934 | Professor Humayun Ansari (RHUL) - 'Musings of Sir Mohammad Iqbal on the Place of Muslims in late Colonial India: Letters to Edward John Thompson, 1933-1934'. | Humayun Ansari | 02 Mar 2010 |
| 5 | Creative Commons | Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-1873): a young Bengali poet's exam script washes up on Albion's distant shore | Dr Alex Riddiford - "Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-1873): a young Bengali poet's exam script washes up on Albion's distant shore." This reading was delivered by Anshuman Mondal. | Alex Riddiford, Anshuman Mondal | 02 Mar 2010 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | Indian imperial crossings and the Oxford hub | Professor Elleke Boehmer (Oxford) - 'Indian imperial crossings and the Oxford hub'. | Elleke Boehmer | 02 Mar 2010 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | Tracing Indian students at Oxford before the Second World War | Dr Sumita Mukherjee (Oxford) - 'Tracing Indian Students at Oxford before the Second World War'. | Sumita Mukherjee | 02 Mar 2010 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | Repainting Ajanta: the global impact of the Frescoes and their copies | Dr Rupert Arrowsmith (UCL) - 'Repainting Ajanta: the global impact of the Frescoes and their copies.'. | Rupert Arrowsmith | 03 Mar 2010 |
| 1 | Creative Commons | Cornelia Sorabji: Jowett's protégée in Oxford 1889-1893 | Professor Richard Sorabji (Wolfson College, Oxford) - Cornelia Sorabji: Jowett's protígíe in Oxford 1889-1893. | Richard Sorabji | 03 Mar 2010 |