Business in the Time of Contagion
Speaker
Lakshmi Subramanian
26-11-2020
About the Speaker
Lakshmi Subramanian, currently Professor of History at HSS in BITS Pilani, Goa and Associate member of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes in France, has had a long and distinguished teaching and research career with a string of books and essays to her credit. She is well known for her expertise in Indian maritime history and business groups and in the field of social and cultural history of modern India. Her major publications include: Singing Gandhi’s India Music and sonic nationalism (Roli Books, 2020), The Sovereign and the Pirate Ordering maritime subjects in India’s western littoral (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2016), Three merchants of Bombay (Penguin India, 2012), A history of India 1707-1857 (Orient Blackswan, Delhi, 2010), Veena Dhanammal The making of a legend (Routledge, 2009), Ports, towns and cities: A Historical tour of the Indian littoral (Marg Mumbai, 2008), New Mansions for Music Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism (SSP- Orient Longmans, Delhi 2008), From the Tanjore Court to the Madras Music Academy: A social history of music in South India (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2006)
Abstract
In her talk, Dr. Lakshmi Subramanian gave a historical perspective as to how pandemics have impacted businesses in the past and the learnings we can draw from them for the present. She sought to explain the phenomenon of contagion more broadly and to investigate the narratives it generates.