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About the Talk –
This lecture advances a Jungian framework for interpreting India’s railway iconography, proposing that clusters of some of the most iconic railway representations of our times function as collective\u2010unconscious symbols that prefigure social and historical trajectories. Building on Carl Jung\u2019s notion of archetypes\u2014\u201cprimordial images\u201d or common inherited patterns of emotional and mental behavior\u2014it argues that railway motifs (e.g., the \u201cAristocratic Club\u201d or \u201cImperial Bioscope\u201d or “Swadeshi Theatre”) can be read much like dream symbols, revealing latent cultural yearnings and anxieties. Drawing on Wolfgang Schivelbusch\u2019s insight that the railroad inaugurated \u201cthe annihilation of space and time\u201d by habituating new perceptual habits, this lecture interrogates shifts in collective psyche across four fifty\u2010year phases: the colonial \u201cImperial Bioscope\u201d (1840s\u20131900), the anticolonial \u201cTheatre\u201d (1900\u20131950), the post\u2010liberal \u201cTourist Guide\u201d (1950s\u20131999), and the emergent \u201cSocial Reformer\u201d (2000\u20132021) archetypes in the history of the Great Indian Railways.

This talk will be moderated by Dr Aashique Ahmed Iqbal, Assistant Professor of History, SIAS, Krea University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Speaker-

Arup K. Chatterjee is Professor at OP Jindal Global University. He has held fellowships in the
UK and Denmark, founded the journal Coldnoon: International Journal of Travel Writing & Travelling Cultures, and authored acclaimed books on Indian railways and the Indian diaspora, besides publishing widely on literature, history, and culture, and the concept that he has coined and developed as gastromythology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41881,"template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"event_listing_category":[212],"event_listing_type":[],"class_list":["post-41879","event_listing","type-event_listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_listing_category-politics","entry"],"yoast_head":"\nA talk on "Railways and the Historical Contours of India" by Professor Arup K Chatterjee<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A talk on "Railways and the Historical Contours of India" by Professor Arup K Chatterjee\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/sias\/event\/a-talk-on-railways-and-the-historical-contours-of-india-by-professor-arup-k-chatterjee\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A talk on "Railways and the Historical Contours of India" by Professor Arup K Chatterjee\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A talk on "Railways and the Historical Contours of India" by Professor Arup K Chatterjee\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/sias\/event\/a-talk-on-railways-and-the-historical-contours-of-india-by-professor-arup-k-chatterjee\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Krea University - 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