The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
 takes pleasure in inviting you and your friends to the
 
19th Dr Mani Kamerkar Endowment Lecture by
 
Professor Vinay Lal
Professor of History and Asian American Studies, UCLA;
Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa, 2024; &
Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship Holder, India, 2025
 
on
 
“A Diaspora Purana: The Figure of the Migrant and
the Epic of Indian Indenture”
 
on Tuesday, 18th February 2025, at 5.30 p.m.
 
Professor Ashwani Kumar
Poet & Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences &
Formerly Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics, will preside.
 
Please join us for tea at 5.00 p.m.

- Prof. Mangala Sirdeshpande, Hon. Secretary
- Meenal Kshirsagar, Vice President of the Society & Chairperson - Endowment Lectures Committee

The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
takes pleasure in inviting you and your friends to the
35th Smt. Nabadurga Banerji Endowment Lecture
by
Professor Himanshu Prabha Ray
Author and Historian,
Tagore National Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University
on
“The Modern Search for the Buddha's Relics”
on
on Thursday 9th January 2025 at 5.30 p.m.
in the Durbar Hall of the Society.
Dr. Suraj Pandit
Professor, Ancient Indian Culture and Archaeology, Sathaye College
will preside.
Please join us for tea at 5.00 p.m.

- Prof. Mangala Sirdeshpande, Hon. Secretary
- Meenal Kshirsagar, Vice President of the Society & Chairperson Endowment Lectures Committee