City Drafting: Property-Making and Bureaucratic Urbanism in South Asia

CASI-Related Event

A CASI 30th Anniversary Workshop

With Additional Funding and Administrative Support from:
         

Wolf Humanities Center Seminar Room
623 Williams Hall
255 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Please email Indivar Jonnalagadda (indivarj@sas.upenn.edu) if you would like to attend in-person or on Zoom

9:00 AM – 9:20 AM ET Introduction

Thomas Cowan, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
Indivar Jonnalagadda, Doctoral Scholar, University of Pennsylvania

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET Session 1

“The Bureaucratic Categorisation of Allocation: A Tale of Bihar State Housing Board,” Sheema Fatima, Postdoctoral Fellow, Tata Institute of Social Sciences – Mumbai

“Drafting Cities through Demolitions: The Politics of Order and Negotiation in City  Bureaucracy,” Sushmita Pati, Assistant Professor, National Law School of India University – Bengaluru

“Drafting Development in Mumbai,” Sangeeta Banerji, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University

11:40 AM – 1:00 PM ET Session 2

“How to Make Land Disappear: Corruption, Computerization, and Care in Lahore,” Tariq Rahman, Doctoral Scholar, University of California – Irvine

“To B or not to B: Exploration of the bureaucratic practices of quasi-legal property tax papers in the city of Bangalore,” Varun Patil, Doctoral Scholar, Max Weber Kolleg

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET Lunch

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET Session 3

“Mapping Land Conflicts and Urban Planning in the National Capital Region of India,” Sophia Abbas, Doctoral Scholar, Yale University

“A House Divided: Urban Family Estate Following the Great Nepal Earthquake, 2015,” Andrew Haxby, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

“Property-work, work of property: Notes on land, caste, and property in India’s urbanizing frontiers,” Shubhra Gururani, Associate Professor, York University

4:15 PM – 5:00 PM ET Discussant Comments

Akhil Gupta, Professor, University of California – Los Angeles

5:00 PM – 5.30 PM ET Closing Discussion

6:30 Dinner

The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
The Saluja Global Fellows Program has been made possible by the generous gift from Vishal Saluja ENG’89 W’89. CASI was excited to launch the program during the 2022–23 academic year, coinciding with the Center’s 30th Anniversary. This new program enables CASI to invite eminent leaders and rising experts on contemporary India preferably from the fields of media, culture, law, and contemporary history to be in residence for one to two weeks at CASI.