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SUMMARY: UBC History Colloquium | Records of Rule: New Perspectives on the 
 Lahore State of Ranjit Singh (1799-1839)
DESCRIPTION: The UBC Department of History Colloquium Series brings togethe
 r scholars who are exploring important methodological\, chronological\, or 
 geographical issues that challenge the frontiers of our discipline and cont
 ribute strongly to our collective discussions. We are pleased to invite you
  to the 2023/2024 Colloquium series\, featuring a joint talk by Dr. Sayyid 
 Muhammad Farid (Department of […]
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 nt of History Colloquium Series brings together</span> scholars who are exp
 loring important methodological\, chronological\, or geographical issues th
 at challenge the frontiers of our discipline and contribute strongly to our
  collective discussions.</p><p>We are pleased to invite you to the 2023/202
 4 Colloquium series\, featuring a joint talk by <b>Dr. Sayyid </b><b>Muhamm
 ad </b><b>Farid </b>(Department of Persian\, Oriental College University of
  the Punjab\, Allama Iqbal Campus\, Lahore Pakistan\; and Visiting Professo
 r\, UBC History) and <b>Dr. Anne Murphy </b>(UBC Department of History).</p
 ><p>Whether you choose to attend virtually or in-person\, please register f
 or the event. A light lunch will be available for in-person attendees who r
 egister in advance.</p><p>[buttons][button link_text="Register for the Even
 t" link_url="https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3silHtAnFscoRds"][/b
 uttons]</p><hr /><h3>Talk Abstract</h3><p>The Greater Punjab State centred 
 at Lahore emerged at the opening of the nineteenth century. Its founding <e
 m>mahārājā</em> (“great king”) was Ranjit Singh\, who ruled until his death
  in 1839. The state represents the first and only instance of a locally con
 trolled\, independent state in Punjab\, a linguistic and cultural region th
 at had until then been integrated into larger state formations. This is the
  state’s importance for many today: it was Punjabi\, and it was independent
  and sovereign. It’s founding ruler Ranjit Singh thus represents a kind of 
 ideal:  a self-made Punjabi leader\, valorized as both a Sikh and a “secula
 r” and catholic ruler.</p><p>In our presentation\, we will review the treat
 ment of this state in scholarly and popular terms\, and suggest the limitat
 ions of dominant formulations of the state and its significance. We will th
 en present nascent research into the Greater Punjab state of Ranjit Singh u
 tilizing records associated with the state that have been neglected in exis
 ting scholarship\, and suggest some of the ways such records can be used fo
 r a more balanced view of the state.</p><hr /><h3>Speaker Bio</h3><p><stron
 g>Sayyid Muhammad Farid</strong> (he/him/his) received his Ph.D. in Persian
  Language & Literature from the University of Tehran\, Iran. He is Professo
 r in Department of Persian Language & Literature & Director Centre for Iqba
 l Studies at University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan. His Ph.D. thesis
 \, published in 2010 in Iran\, was based on a manuscript of a Persian poet 
 from the Mughal era\, Munir Lahori (1610-1644). Farid has completed 42 rese
 arch publications\, mostly addressing the history of the Mughal period. He 
 has supervised eight Ph.D. and twenty-seven MPhil theses. His most recent r
 esearch concerns texts in Persian from the period of Ranjit Singh’s kingdom
 \, which he is working on while at UBC as a Visiting Professor.</p><p><stro
 ng>Anne Murphy</strong> (she/they) received her Ph.D. from Columbia Univers
 ity. She teaches in the Department of History at UBC. They are a cultural h
 istorian whose work focuses on the Punjab region of India and Pakistan\, wi
 th interests in language and literary cultures\; the history of the Punjabi
  language in South Asia and beyond\; religious community formations in the 
 early modern and modern periods\; oral history\; commemoration\; historiogr
 aphy\; and material culture studies. Her current research concerns modern P
 unjabi literature in the Indian and Pakistani Punjabs and in the broader Pu
 njabi Diaspora. They are also interested in the early modern history of Pun
 jabi's emergence as a literary language.</p>
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