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    THE BATTLE OF PLASSEY

    (POLASHIR JUDDHO) 23 JUNE 1757


    250 YEARS
    Poetry Reading
    Saturday 23 June 07, 3-5pm (Free)
    Conference Sirajuddaula

    Sunday 24 June 07, 11am-5pm


    (see below for conference details and fee, lunch 1.45-2.30pm)
    Lab 4 & 5, Idea Store Whitechapel Robert Clive
    321 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BU

    East India Company Walk


    Mir Jafar and
    Sunday 1 July 07, 3-5pm (£10 per person) son Miran

    23 June 2007 will be the 250th year of the Battle of Plassey. This was a decisive day in 1757 when the British achieved victory
    in Bengal under Robert Clive. It was also the beginning of the British Indian Empire. The events organised by Brick Lane Circle
    (BLC) will consist of a Poetry Reading session on Saturday 23 June and a one day Conference on Sunday 24 June at the Whitechapel
    Idea Store followed by an East India Company Walk on Sunday 1 July. The Conference will bring together a number of scholars,
    researchers and members of the community where the context, impacts and the implications of the Battle of Plassey will be explored.
    The East End of London is dotted with important sites and buildings that have historical links with Bengal. The area is also the home
    of the largest concentration of Bangladeshi people in the UK. The 250 Years anniversary events of the British conquest of Bengal will
    provide a focus to engage people from diverse backgrounds to explore the area's historical links with Bengal. It will also help widen
    the public appreciation of the deeper historical connections between London’s multi-cultural communities.

    CONFERENCE, 24 JUNE 2007, 11.00am - 1.45pm CONFERENCE, 24 JUNE 2007, 2.30 - 5.00pm
    Chaired by Rumman Ahmed, Board Member Chaired by Sharifa Khanom, Youth Project Worker
    London Development Agency (LDA) Tower Hamlets PDC, Humanities Education Centre
    Military techniques and the organisation of state in 17th Imperial Corporation: The legacy of the East India
    Century Britain and Bengal by Dr Jon E. Wilson. He teaches Company in Britain and Bengal by Nick Robins. He works in the
    history of South Asia at King's College London, and is currently completing a City of London to promote sustainable and responsible investment. He is the
    book on the colonial regime in Bengal entitled The Domination of Strangers. He author of The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India
    studied History and Anthropology at Oxford University and the New School for Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (Pluto, 2006), and is a columnist
    Social Research. He is actively involved in politics, and was a councillor in the for The Ecologist Magazine.
    London Borough of Waltham Forest between 2002-06.
    Palashi Forgotten: Silencing the past and 21st century
    The Battle of Plassey: the context and the decisive impact Britishness by Dr Georgie Wemyss. She lived in Dhaka in 1988-9, where
    of Mir Jafar’s betrayal by Dr Muhammad Ahmedullah. He has she began to study Bangla. She has been involved with Tower Hamlets
    been working in major inner city regeneration programmes in the UK College since 1989, initially in youthwork and later teaching. Currently, she
    since 1989. He completed his PhD in 1998 on the Relationship between teaches Social Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Tower Hamlets
    Epistemology and Political Theory from Kent University. Since May 2005 College and has a research fellowship at Surrey University, where she is
    he has been delivering a unique exhibition on Dhaka City around the UK. completing a book based on her D. Phil Thesis.
    Popular perceptions versus authoritative constructions of Long-run economic effects of the British impact on Bengal
    Plassey by Dr Tasleem Shakur, Director of International Centre for by Professor Mushtaq Khan, Professor of economics at School of African
    Development & Environmental Studies (ICDES); Editor-Global Built and Oriental Studies. He completed his undergraduate studies in Philosophy,
    Environment Review (GBER); Co-editor of South Asian Cultural Studies Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford and then won a
    (SACS), Edge Hill University, Lancashire and Abu Musa Muhammad Arif scholarship for his PhD studies in Economics at Cambridge. Previously he
    Billah, PhD student at SOAS and an academic from Dhaka University, with a taught at the universities of both Oxford and Cambridge . Information on his
    rich background in Farsi / Bengali literature. research interests are available on http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/users/mk17/

    For details contact 07903 671787 / [email protected]. The Battle of Plassey Young People’s Project
    Conference fee: £5 - students and those who are not in employment BLC will run a October 2007 Black History Month programme and
    £15 - other individuals and voluntary organisations engage a group of young people to undertake research on a particular
    £30 - public sector bodies and and private businesses area of their interest linked to an East India Company site in East
    Advance booking only! Conference fee includes lunch! London. They will be supported with workshops, guided tours and
    assistance in writing a short article based on their research. The
    Please book early to avoid disappointment! writings will be put together in a publication for launch in March 2008.
    To book a place on any of the 250 Years events please email BLC with For details and how to get involved please contact BLC. If you are
    your details - name, address, telephone and the number of places you interested in participating please send your details by email, stating
    wish to reserve. First come first serve basis will apply in all cases. why you are interested and what you can bring to the project.

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