"TALES OF TWO COUNTRIES; THE PERILS AND PLEASURES OF WRITING ABOUT INDIA AND CHINA" WITH MAHESH RANGARAJAN & JEFF WASSERSTROM
Department: Literary Journalism
Date and Time: April 1, 2014 | 3:00 PM-4:30 PMEvent Location: MURRAY KRIEGER HALL 126
Event Details
Tuesday, April 1: 3:00-4:30pm in 126 Krieger Hall
“Tales of Two Countries: The Perils and Pleasures of Writing about India
and China”
Mahesh Rangarajan and Jeff Wasserstrom (Chancellor’s Professor of History,
UCI).
Co-sponsored by Department of History, Center for Asian Studies,
International Studies Public Forum, Humanities Collective, Conversations
on Writing and Public Life, and Literary Journalism Program.
Mahesh Rangarajan is a leading scholar on the history and politics of the
environment in India and the world. He has published widely in both
scholarly and journalistic venues on themes related to conservation and
indigenous survival, science and nature, environment and political
sovereignty, inventions and uses of “the forest,” and human relationships
to wildlife. Rangarajan is Professor of Modern Indian History at Delhi
University and Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, one of
India’s most important research centers for social science and the
humanities. He is a former Rhodes Scholar and received his doctorate at
Oxford University in 1993.
Prof. Rangarajan’s well-known books include Fencing the Forest:
Conservation and Ecological Change in India’s Central Provinces, 1860-1914
(Oxford, 1999); Battles over Nature: Science and the Politics of
Conservation, (New Delhi, 2006), and India’s Environmental History, 2
vols., (New Delhi, 2012). His journalistic and public service work is
extensive and conducted in multiple languages, including columns for The
Telegraph (English), Asian Age (English), Vaartha (Telugu), and Amar
Ujaala and Hindustan (Hindi). He has served as assistant editor for The
Telegraph, and he was a consulting political analyst for New Delhi
Television, Star News (Hindi), Kolkata TV (Bengali) and Times Now
(English). In 2010, he was chair of the Elephant Task Force for the Union
Ministry of Environment and Forests and has been a member of the
Ministry’s Advisory Committee, since 2012. Select articles written by
Prof. Rangarajan are available at:
http://archive.asianage.com/content/mahesh-rangarajan.