Rebecca Manring chaired “Language, Authority, Religion and Resistance: Vernacular Trends in Pre-Modern Bengal,” a panel at the 52nd Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. IU graduate student Sweta Dutta organized the panel of five scholars at various career stages who work in pre-modern Bengal. The panel explored the themes of language, authority, and resistance in premodern Bengal by looking at the relationship between the center and peripheries, subaltern identities and dominant/orthodox polities through the lens of religion, literature and material culture.
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