Keynote Speakers

Sucheta Mahajan retired as Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been Gillespie Visiting Professor at the College of Wooster, Ohio, US,  a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, and a Visiting Professor at the Maison des Sciences de l' homme, Paris.

Her significant books include Independence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power in India (2000); India's Struggle for Independence (1988; with Bipan Chandra et al); RSS, School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi- The Hindu Communal Project (2008; with Aditya and Mridula Mukherjee) and Education and Social Change: MVF and Child Labour (2008).

Her fields of interest span the short and long history of the twentieth century, its politics, political economy and social change.

Swapna Liddle is an Indian historian, author, art curator and heritage conservator based in Delhi. She is known for her research of history of Delhi including its architecture and buildings, and food. She advocates people's participation to help preserve heritage. She was also the convener of the Delhi Chapter of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) previously. She is author of several books and have contributed in several books. She is most notably known for her works on Delhi including Shahjahanabad: Mapping a Mughal City, The Broken Script: Delhi Under the East India Company and the Fall of the Mughal Dynasty 1803-1857, Chandani Chowk: The Mughal City of Old Delhi to name a few. She also contributed to The Delhi College: Traditional Elites, the Colonial State, and Education before 1857 and edited Sair-Ul-Manazil.