May 12 2022 to May 12 2022 7 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

The Cosmos Foundation’s website is devoted to multidisciplinary recovery of the ties between Black and South Asian communities. The “Black Story” exhibition features the work of five Bangladeshi artists’ projects. A heavily illustrated scholarly book documenting the history of Bengali-Black interactions across the globe is underway. Several movie projects are under consideration.

The session has two presentations. The first presentation by Rosie Llwellyn-Jones is titled King Wajid Ali Shah’s Africans: From Lucknow to Calcutta. The speaker’s study of Africans in Lucknow (including Hazrat Mahal the heroine of 1857-1858) was published in African Rulers and Generals in India. She is following up with a study of Africans who joined the deposed ruler to Calcutta. The second presentation is titled Initiatives of the Cosmos Foundation by Nahar Khan.