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Bhavani Raman is Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto. Her first book Document Raj: Scribes and Writing in Early Colonial South India (Univ. of Chicago 2012) focused on cultures of paperwork, information, and law in colonial lndia. She is currently working on two projects. The first is a monograph on the emergence of South Asia’s modern security laws such as state offences, sedition, martial law, and preventive detention in early colonial India. The second is a collaborative project on the environmental and legal history of the coastal city of Chennai and its wetlands.
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Professor Raman will present a paper titled “Muddy Waters: Coastal Property in India."
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Location
Board Room
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
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Event Type and Topic
Research Workshop
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