Tithi Bhattacharya - Uncanny Histories: Ghosts, Fear, and Reason in Colonial Bengal

Tithi Bhattacharya’s colloquium talk catalogues new social rituals and literary forms which instituted a new discourse about ghosts in colonial Bengal and explores the ways in which the new ghosts become dominant over the old. She tries to understand the historical outcomes of death and death rituals becoming concerns for colonial governability.