FYI


*The Battle of Plassey Annual Conference    *

*‘253 years after the Battle’** *

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*Sunday 4 July 2010, 11am-5pm, Lab 2 & 3*

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*Idea Store Whitechapel, 321 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BU*





23 June 2010 is the 253 years anniversary of the Battle of Plassey. It
was on this day in 1757 that the East India Company conquered Bengal
under the leadership of Robert Clive. It was also the beginning of the
British Indian Empire.



Brick Lane Circle recently delivered a unique project that engaged a
group of young people (18-25) who explored and wrote a book on the
legacy of the East India Company and London's historical links with
Bengal.



The 2010 Annual Plassey Conference has been designed to continue and
help increase the interest generated by the writing of the book
/Plassey’s Legacy: Young Londoners Explore the Hidden Story of the East
India Company/.



You will be able to meet some of the young authors at the conference and
obtain a free copy of the book.

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*MORNING SESSION 11.00AM-1.30PM: CHAIRED BY SAMIA RAHMAN*

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*CATALOGUING THE CLIVE PAPERS IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY*

*By Marie-Claire Wyatt*, who has an MA in Medieval Studies from the
University of York and received her Archive qualification from
University College Dublin in 2005. She has worked at the British Library
since 2007, first in the Manuscripts Department cataloguing the
Coleridge Family Archive, then in India Office Records where she has
been responsible for cataloguing the papers of Robert, Baron Clive of
Plassey and of John, 13th Lord Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay.**

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*THE GREAT BENGAL FAMINE OF 1770: NEW PERSPECTIVES*

*By Dr Tirthankar Roy*, who is Reader in Economic History, London School
of Economics. He has published extensively on economic and social
history of modern South Asia, including a successful text, /The Economic
History of India 1857-1947/, OUP India 2000, and a monograph on the
history of the textile artisans from Cambridge University Press in 1999.

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*LUNCH 1.30 - 2.15PM (£6.00 per person for lunch)               *

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*AFTERNOON SESSION 2.15-5.00PM: CHAIRED BY NIAZ ALOM  *

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*MONSOON TRADERS: THE MARITIME WORLD OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY***

*By **Dr Robert Blyth*, who is curator of imperial and maritime history
at the National Maritime Museum.  He has written on British India's
maritime frontiers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on the
history and material culture of transatlantic slavery.  He is currently
co-authoring a maritime history of the East India Company.

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*TEA: DIVIDING POLITICS, UNITING HERITAGE*

*By Ruhana Ali*, who is a co-author of /Plassey’s Legacy./ She graduated
in Social Policy, Criminal Justice & Psychology from the London School
of Economics. She is a freelance writer, journalist, television
presenter in the community and currently works as a community organiser
for London Citizens.

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*All welcome! Free Entry! Advance booking only!*

*For details please call **0**7574224891 or email**
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*EAST INDIA COMPANY WALKS*

*(Advance booking only)*

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*EAST INDIA COMPANY DOCKSIDE*

*26 June 2010, 2-4pm*

*By Dr Georgie Wemyss* (the author of /The Invisible Empire: White
Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging/ (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), supported
by *Asiya Khanom and Lothifa Chowdhury* (co-authors of /Plassey’s Legacy/)

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*CITY OF LONDON AND WEST END*

*Saturday 10 July 2010, 3-5pm, *

*By Nick Robins* (author of /The Corporation that Changed the World: How
the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational/), supported by
*Samia Rahman* (co-author of /Plassey’s Legacy/)

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*BENGAL HISTORY WEEK*

Brick Lane Circle will organise a *Bengal History Week *during the
October 2010 Black History Month.

Our aim is to promote the objective and non ideological research and
dissemination of Bengal’s history, particularly with respect to the
cultures and traditions of Bangladesh.

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*AMAZING BANGLADESHIS *

Bangladesh will be forty years old in 2011. In 1971 a new country was
born on the eastern side of India, after a bloody Liberation War that
lasted nine months. Since independence the people of Bangladesh made
significant strides, overcoming many barriers and difficult challenges.

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*We want to celebrate our four decades.*



Brick Lane Circle throws a challenge to all Bangladeshis, whether at
home or around the world: *do something amazing during 2011*. In our
country's fortieth year, we want to show that Bangladeshis can perfect
the art of the impossible.



We are encouraging anyone to come forward and initiate an activity whose
goals will be remarkable and awe-inspiring.



It can be an individual or a collective endeavour, aimed at personal
development, community benefit or for the good of humanity in general.
For example, a student may set a higher exam result targets or
an eye surgeon may aspire to help restore the eye sights of 1,000 people.



  From now and until the end of this year Brick Lane Circle aims to gain
1,000 pledges from individuals and groups and organise an event on 16
December 2010 to formally launch the */Amazing Bangladeshis/* concept.

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*All welcome - Free Entry - Advance booking only!*

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