Day to Day Programme
Week 1
(Pune)
Morning I
(9:00 AM– 10:00 AM)
Monday
(July 4th)
Settling in.
Orientation (10.15 am)
Themes of the course.
Tuesday
(July 5th)
Changing cultures of
education in India
Getting to know the
participants.
Wednesday
(July 6th)
Thursday
(July 7th)
All day trip to
sites in British Poona
Early and mid 19th
century science,
medicine and
technology in Company
and Crown Raj India.
Division of the class
into working groups
for final projects.
All day trip to
Bhimashankar’s
Movie on Alexander
Gibson. Curtain raiser
for the trip the following
day.
sacred grove
and sanctuary.
Weekend
Saturday
(July 9th)
Weekend
(July 10th)
Weekend
Personal time
Weekend
Personal time
Weekend
Personal time
Personal time
Personal time
Personal time
Monday
(July 11th)
Late 19th and early 20th
century science,
medicine and
technology in Crown
Raj.
Medical interventions
at the time of the great
plague of the 1890s.
The BBC and
investigative reporting.
Going the other way
through the mathematics of
Sreenivas Ramanujan.
Colonial food exchange in
British India.
Plague Walk.
The role of fiction in
relaying history, using
The Quarantine Papers
and Room 000.
Haffkine Institute.
Visit to the Bhau Daji
Ladd Museum.
Architectural visit in the
Fort and Colaba areas.
Lecture concentrating on
art, history and wildlife in
Friday
(July 8th)
Tuesday
(July 12th)
Wednesday
(July 13th)
Thursday
(July 14th)
Morning II
(11:15 – 12:45 PM)
Afternoon/Evening
(2:00 – 4:00 and/or 5:00 –
7:00 PM)
Screening of the movie
Lagaan. Analysis of the
movie.
Poetry in colonial India.
Geographical and Historical
Quiz relating to British
India.
in the 19th and 20th
centuries.
Music in colonial India (Part
1). Evening concert.
Personal time.
Introducing the notion of
Bombay Gothic.
Friday
(July 15th)
the Prince of Wales
museum.
Education at the Homi
Bhabha Centre for
Science and Education.
Return to Poona and
personal time.
Astronomy in colonial
India.
Personal time.
Personal time.
Sunday
(July 17)
Personal time.
Personal time.
Personal time.
Monday
(July 18th)
Visit to the RBI
archives.
Visit to the RBI archives.
Tuesday
(July 19th)
The importance of
documentation using
the Tata Central
Archives.
Visit to the Common
War Graves
Commission at the
Kirkee War Cemetery.
Screening of the movie
Gandhi.
Presentation of group
projects.
The importance of
documentation using the
Tata Central Archives.
Music in Colonial India (Part
2). Classical Music Master
Class/Performance.
General discussion on
centralisation of state
technologies through state
surveys.
Public health in military
British India (3:00 PM)
Saturday
(July 16)
Wednesday
(July 20th)
Thursday
(July 21st)
Friday
(July 22nd)
Military legacies.
Analysis of the movie
Presentation of group
projects.
Films and Bombay.
Projects to be completed
for presentation.
Individual reflections. End
of course.