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My Kaken C (2020-23) research grant achieved three major research objectives. The first was that I was able to collect a considerable amount of 19 th century documents and reports on fish and fishing in the Eastern provinces of British Indian from archival sources, internet and libraries. In particular, the striking reports of the ichthyologist-naturalist Francis Day (1829-89).
The second objective was to use these primary sources to persuasively make the case for understanding rivers in Eastern British India as a biological-pulse, as opposed to treating rivers only as a physical force or volume in motion. The third objective was that I was able deliver several talks and present papers at international conferences and seminars. Notably, the Global Asia Initiative Workshop that was held on April 2023 at Duke University. Here, a select group
of anthropologists, historians and other inter-disciplinary specialists from various universities met to rethink the idea of the river as a problem of the hydrosphere in the context of climate change. My paper ‘Fins in the Inland Ocean: How Modern Rivers Discovered Their pulse in British India’ has subsequently been accepted for publication in a volume that will be edited by
James Westcoast and Prasenjit Duara. I have submitted my revised and corrected paper (December 2023) and expect the edited collection to be out from Cambridge University Press by the beginning months of 2024.
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