Bombay Katta: The City and its Poor
May 27 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Virtual Event
Event Description:
Katta signifies casual and engaged conversation, but unlike its distant cousin the Bengali Adda, it also denotes a space where friends come to talk and listen. Juned Shaikh and Sheetal Chhabria speak to histories of labor, poverty and caste in colonial and postcolonial Bombay.
Details
Date: May 27
Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Venue
Virtual Event
Organizer
Center for South Asian Studies
Event Recording
Sheetal Chhabria Bio:
Sheetal Chhabria is Associate Professor of History at Connecticut College. She researches the histories of capitalism, the production of space, and the governance of
labor, poverty and inequality.
Juned Shaikh Bio:
Juned Shaikh is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He studies labor, cities, caste, and Marxism in South Asia. His next project is on the life and times of a scientist who became an important leader of the communist movement in India, Gangadhar Adhikari.