Swadhin Sen

Sediments in the Archaeological contexts Of the Bengal Delta

Sediments in the Archaeological Contexts of the Bengal Delta is conceived not as a catalog of sedimentary structures but as a pedagogical argument about how archaeological knowledge is produced in a materially heterogeneous, multiscalar, and historically changing delta. Its struc...

Memory is a stranger, History is for fools Presentist desires, methodological absenteeism, and the illusion of continuity in Early and Early Modern Bengal

This document is the PDF version of the Presentation of my seminar, entitled “Memory is a Stranger, History is for Fools: Presentist Desires, Methodological Absenteeism, and the Illusion of Continuity in Early and Early Modern Bengal” was organized by the BRAC University History...

Memory is a stranger, History is for fools Presentist desires, methodological absenteeism, and the illusion of continuity in Early and Early Modern Bengal

This document is the PDF version of the Presentation of my seminar, entitled “Memory is a Stranger, History is for Fools: Presentist Desires, Methodological Absenteeism, and the Illusion of Continuity in Early and Early Modern Bengal” was organized by the BRAC University History...