Day I - 4 June 2014
9:30 Coffee
9:45 Opening Remarks
10:00- 12:15 - Panel I
Abhishek Kaicker (Harvard University)
Petitions, Peoples and the Late-Mughal Judicial Order
Robert Travers (Cornell University)
Petitioning and the making of a colonial judicial state in Eighteenth-Century Bengal
Rosalind O'Hanlon (University of Oxford)
Gota, Majalis and Panchayat: Petitioning and Judicial Institutions in western India, c. 1600-1820
Discussant: David Washbrook (University of Cambridge)
12:15- 1:30 - Lunch
1:30 -3:15 - Panel II
Philip Stern (Duke University)
Petitions, Civil Society, and the Making of Sovereignty in Seventeenth-Century Bombay
Aparna Balachandran (University of Delhi)
Mamul in the City: Urban petitions in Early Colonial Madras
Discussant: William O' Reilly (University of Cambridge)
3:15-:3:30 Tea break
3:30- 5:15 - Panel III
Jon Wilson (King's College London)
Petitions and the Decline of Relational Power in Nineteenth- Century India
Bhavani Raman (University of Toronto)
Form and Performance: Sincerity and Authority in Early Colonial Petitioning
Discussant: Tim Harper (University of Cambridge)
7:00 for 7.30pm – Dinner - The Parlour, Magdalene College
Day II - 5 June 2014
9:15 Coffee
9:30-11:45- Panel IV
Julie Stephens (University of Cambridge)
Princes & Paupers: Petitioning and Late Colonial Governance
Prashant Kidambi (University of Leicester)
Exception, Exemption and Expediency: some reflections on the 'riot tax' petitions in Bombay
Discussant: Fei-Hsien Wang (Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge)
11:45- 12:45 - Lunch
12:45-3:00 – Panel V
Rohit De (University of Cambridge)
Petitioning around the Cow: Writ Petitions in the Indian Republic
Nayanika Mathur (University of Cambridge)
Petitioning to Kill and Claim: Governing Man Eating Big Cats in Uttarakhand India
Matthew Hull (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Parchis, Petitions and Political Connections
Discussant: Joya Chatterji (University of Cambridge)
3:00-3:15 - Coffee
3:15-4:15 - Roundtable
Chair: Emma Rothschild (Cambridge/Harvard), Robert Travers, Rohit De
4:30 – Meeting Concludes