Friends of the Visuvalingams - Vinay Bahl

<body> <p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Vinay is associate professor of sociology at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. Her training is in modern Indian history and sociology with special focus <span lang="en-us">on industrialization, work, gender and culture. She is the author of <i> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0803991878/qid=1061496102/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-9247741-2844644?v=glance&s=books"> The Making of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron and Steel Company 1880-1946</a></i> (1995) and book chapters in <i>Congress and Classes: nationalism, Peasants and Workers</i> (1988). She has published fifteen articles on the subject of the working class, industrialization, women, and caste. We first met Vinay during a book-signing ceremony on 13 Nov. 2003 in Paris, where she was spending a year as a research fellow at the Coll�ge de France that coincided with our own 'sabbatical' from Aug 02-Aug 03. Sunthar subsequently interacted with her French and Indian critics at the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ehess.fr/centres/ceias/evenements.html#journeeceias"> Subaltern Day at the CEIAS</a> (Center for the Study of India and South-Asia) on 03 Dec 2003 in Paris, where she had been invited to give the opening talk. Vinay thereafter got to know several of our friends, both Parisians and visitors from abroad (such as <a target="_self" href="#Mary Searle Chatterjee"> Mary Chatterjee</a>), and we've been engaged in an ongoing dialogue between modern world-historiography and Indian traditions (such as embodied in Abhinava).</span></font></p> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p> </body>