INTACH (Indian National trust for Art and Cultural Heritage)

Cordially invites you to a Lecture on 'Whither Pastoralism in South Asia?'

In Memory of Professor Aparna Rao
by
Vasant Saberwal
Professor T.N. Madan will speak on Professor Rao

on
Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 6.30 p.m.
at the INTACH Multi-purpose Hall,
71, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi -110003
 

RSVP
24632267/69, 24631818

Please join us for tea at 6.00 p.m.
 

In Memory of Professor Aparna Rao (1950 - 2005)

This is a memorial lecture to remember Aparna Rao’s tireless work in the field of nomadic cultures — foragers, pastoralists, and the peripatetics she christened the Other Nomads.

Dr. Vasant Saberwal has been a grant-maker at the Ford Foundation. he was Director of Research at Moving Images, an independent environmental documentary film production house. He has a PhD in environmental studies from Yale University. Both his academic work and his documentary films explored issues relating to the politics of access to natural resources. His publications include Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, Bureaucrats and Conservation in the Western Himalaya and, as co-editor, Battles Over Nature: Science and the Politics of Wildlife Conservation.

Prof. T.N. Madan is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (London) and Docteur Honoris Causa of the University of Paris (Nanterre). His publications include Religions in India, Non-Renunciation: Themes and Interpretations of Hindu Culture and Modern Myths, Locked Minds: Secularism and Fundamentalism in India. TN Madan was in the process of editing The Valley of Kashmir: The Making and Unmaking of a Composite Culture? with Aparna Rao.