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SUMMARY:White noise\, séances and colonial linguistics - Professor Javed 
 Majeed (King’s College London)
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CONTACT:Barbara Roe
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the gramophone recordings of Indian languag
 es and dialects made in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928
 ). It outlines the conflicting aims of the recordings\, and considers how 
 the narrative of command and techno-modernity they are embedded in came ap
 art as the project developed. In his correspondence Grierson repeatedly de
 scribed the recordings as “séances”. I will examine the significance 
 of this striking description\, and in conclusion\, I will consider what th
 e recordings say about Indian and colonial voices and bodies\, and how the
 y throw light on the production of knowledge in the Linguistic Survey. Thi
 s production of knowledge continues to have important ramifications in Sou
 th Asia today. The talk draws on my two recently published books\, Nation 
 and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (2018) and Coloniali
 sm and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (2018).
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambri
 dge CB3 9DT
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