No.114 Seminar ： Inside and Outside View of Encounters around Early Madras
- Ikuko Wada (Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Okayama University, 5th batch of the Hakubi researcher)
- 2016/06/21 4:30pm
- The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research (Research Administration Building 1F)
- Japanese(This seminar is open for students and researchers at Kyoto Univ.)
Summary
Present-day Chennai, the state capital of Tamil Nadu, is one of the largest cities in India with huge population. The origin of the modern city can be traced back to 1639, when the English East India Company was granted a strip of sandy land at Madraspatnam (later contracted to Madras) for a factory. Soon afterwards, along with constructing a fort, the Company started to build up a new town by accepting people with various backgrounds. In this seminar, I will focus on encounters in a cosmopolitan society of early Madras, especially on marriage or male-female relationship, which is often considered as a typical cross-cultural experience. Here I will reconsider this widely accepted view from a new perspective.