From Deccan dynasties to economic reforms: History Literature Festival explores past, politics and performance

Day 2 of the History Literature Festival successful Hyderabad unfolded connected Saturday with wide-ranging conversations that moved from medieval archaeology and firm histories to assemblage identities, governmental ideologies and classical music.

The time began with a league titled ‘Deccan Dynasties: A Medieval History’, featuring archaeologist and historiographer Uthara Suvrathan, archaeologist Hemanth Kadambi and historiographer Anirudh Kanisetti. The treatment explored however dynasties yet find their mode into the archaeological grounds and however worldly remains signifier humanities understanding.

Ms. Suvrathan spoke astir Banavasi, a tiny municipality known arsenic the superior of the aboriginal Karnataka-based Kadamba dynasty. Recounting her archaeological survey successful the region, she said the squad identified implicit 300 sites. Kadambi, successful turn, reflected connected the differences betwixt archaeological and humanities processes, explaining however the methods and questions successful each subject often diverge adjacent erstwhile they analyse the aforesaid past.

The adjacent session, ‘Hues & Brews: Journeys of Asian Paints and Amrut’, featured writer Anupam Gupta, writer Sriram Devatha and historiographer Chinmay Tumbe. The treatment focused connected the improvement of Asian Paints and Amrut, some founded successful the 1940s, and however the 2 brands navigated maturation and contention implicit the decades.

Speaking astir his publication connected Asian Paints, Gupta said what acceptable the founding household isolated was their quality to instrumentality the close decisions astatine important moments. He noted that they made a conscious prime to measurement backmost from day-to-day absorption and bring successful professionals to tally the company. Devatha, discussing his publication connected Amrut, said, “The DNA of Amrut was to prosecute radical and spot them. Their household gave them the freedom.”

This was followed by ‘Community Chemistries: Bengalis and Parsis’, featuring Bakhtiar Dadabhoy, Sanghamitra Chatterjee and Sudeep Chakravarti. Dadabhoy observed that the Parsis hint their ancestry and religion to the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian era. Chakravarti added that conversations astir Bengali individuality indispensable besides prosecute with root myths, arguing that these narratives play a important relation successful shaping assemblage self-perception.

In the league ‘Left, Right oregon Centre: Politics and Ideologies’, Sanjaya Baru, Jaithirth Rao and Narayani Basu examined governmental and economical shifts successful post-Independence India. Rao recalled that betwixt 1971 and 1973, often described arsenic the tallness of Leftist economics successful the country, the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act was introduced successful 1973 and was wide regarded arsenic a tyrannical measurement astatine the time. Baru reflected connected his younker successful Hyderabad, describing the aboriginal 1970s arsenic a heyday for the Left successful the city. He spoke astir his interactions with Jyoti Basu successful 1990 and recounted however helium became progressive successful the economical reforms of 1991.

The time concluded with ‘Musical Narratives: Stories and Melodies of the Agra Gharana’, featuring a show by Hindustani vocalist and writer Priya Purushothaman, accompanied by Milind Mysore connected the tabla and Rahul Deshpande connected the harmonium.