‘Deep Impacts of the East India Company’
A conference by participants of recent projects on the East India Company
1.00pm – 6.00pm
‘Bottles of the Juice of Limons’: Surviving Scurvy and the First East India Company Voyage by Dr Rosita Aiesha
Vizagapatam and an 18th Century Workbox by Charlotte Hopkins
East India Company and Shipbuilding in Calcutta by Dr Sanjukta Ghosh
Re-discovering My Creative Self through the Journey of Bengal Muslin Fabrics in the 17th to 19th century in Britain by Lucky Hossain
Invisible women: Indian women and the East India Company by Sharmen Haque
The Bhodrolok Terrorists – Why Bengal Produces Gentlefolk Revolutionaries and Terrorists by Bhaskar Dasgupta
Bengal Shadows
Video documentary and Q&A
6.30pm – 8.30pm
‘This hard-hitting documentary brings to light a lesser-known episode of the Second World War – the 1943 famine, during which time several million people starved to death in Bengal.
Today, numerous historians, researchers and writers, from both India and Britain, blame the British Empire for the famine that occurred whilst the subcontinent was under its rule.
Some historians allege that Winston Churchill was accountable for the famine and even refer to it as a crime against humanity.
The film gives a voice to historians, researchers and survivors, who were witness to these tragic events.’ – Joy Banerjee & Partho Bhattacharya
