Madihah Akhter

Date

Tue May 12th 2020, 4:30pm

In this podcast Center for South Asia Associate Director Lalita du Perron talks to Madihah Akhter, PhD student in the Stanford History department. They discuss the history of pandemics, the responsibility of the state, the role of technology, the power of social media, and contemporary music.

Kathryn Olivarius, "The Dangerous History of Immunoprivilege" NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/opinion/coronavirus-immunity-passport...
Manavi Kapur, "India Battles Coronavirus with British Era Epidemic Diseases Act" Quartz India: https://qz.com/india/1820143/india-battles-coronavirus-with-british-era-...
Saurav Kumar Rai, "How the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897 Came to be" wire.in, https://thewire.in/history/colonialism-epidemic-diseases-act
Saadat Hasan Manto, "Tok Tek Singh" (1955) in English: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00urdu/tobateksingh/transla...
In Urdu: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00urdu/tobateksingh/phundne...
In Devanagari: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/01glossaries/delacy/tobatek...

Transcript available on request (email us at southasiainfo [at] stanford.edu (southasiainfo[at]stanford[dot]edu)). Please allow a week for transcript to become available.