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Conversations on South Asia: Pious Labor

Join us for Lanzillo's Pious Labor, exploring how Indian Muslim artisans linked their religion to work amid industrial changes, highlighting their cultural agency and perspectives.

10/15/2024
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Virtual Webinar
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Conferences, Lectures & Seminars, Off Campus Event
Registration required.

Announcing the second book event on South Asia-related topics in fall 2024 held by Dartmouth College. 


Conversations on South Asia Series  


Amanda Lanzillo, “Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India”, Oct. 15th, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (EST). 
 
The South Asian Studies Collective at Dartmouth invites you to an illuminating Zoom book event featuring author Amanda Lanzillo. In her new book, Pious Labor, Lanzillo explores how, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indian Muslim artisans responded to rapid industrial changes, emerging technologies, and class hierarchies by publicly asserting the deep connection between their religion and their labor. Using the increasingly accessible popular press, these artisans—metalsmiths, stonemasons, tailors, press workers, and carpenters—redefined Islamic traditions “from below.” Through their stories and experiences, Lanzillo examines the colonial-era social and technological shifts from the workers’ own perspectives, linking their colonial marginalization to the ongoing exclusion of laboring voices today. By analyzing previously overlooked Urdu-language technical manuals and community histories, Pious Labor not only reveals the materiality of artisanal production but also emphasizes the cultural agency of artisans, filling an important gap in South Asian history.

 

📚 Book Spotlight: “Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India” by Amanda Lanzillo
📅 Date: October 15th, 2024
⏰ Time: 12:15 PM-1:30 PM EST
📍 Virtual Zoom 
💻 Register Here: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wHyRtpUmRRCRbbr3BvcW-w


🎙️Speaker
Amanda Lanzillo, Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago


🎙️Commentators
Douglas Haynes, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Dartmouth College

Razak Khan, Research Fellow in Global History, Department of History, Free University Berlin


🎙️Moderator
Curt Gambetta, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, and Lecturer, Department of Art History


Sponsored by the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages (ASCL) and the Bodas Family Endowment for South Asian Studies at Dartmouth College. 
 
QR code (leads to registration form) on the poster.  

For more information, contact:
South Asian Studies
south.asian.studies@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://ascl.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=75345

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