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DESCRIPTION:-------- WEDS TALKS: ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE COLONIAL CITY IN SOUT
 H ASIA:  MAPPING ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE IN PORTUGUESE CHAUL [1
 ] --\n\n**\n\n*ABSTRACT**:* Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries
 , port-cities in  the Indian Ocean became critical nodes in expanding tra
 de networks linking  Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe. A
 mong these were emerging  European colonial settlements, where imperial r
 egimes attempted to order  large and mobile populations of merchants, art
 isans, fishermen, religious  communities, and landholders whose labor s
 ustained global exchange.  Scholarship on these early colonial cities in S
 outh Asia has largely  emphasized forts, churches, and administrative ar
 chitecture, drawing on  colonial archives that foreground elite European 
 perspectives. This talk  revisits colonial urbanism in South Asia through 
 the archaeological landscape  of Chaul, a Portuguese port-city on India’s
  western coast (occupied  1510-1740). Drawing on ongoing archival and arch
 aeological work, I explore  how the built environment can offer new ways 
 of approaching social  difference and inequality during colonial expansion
 , focusing on the  configuration of domestic architecture and neighborhoo
 ds. Although imperial  regimes often aspired towards ordered and legible u
 rban landscapes, the  cities that emerged through colonial settlement wer
 e by no means homogenous.  Through the case of Chaul, I explore how histo
 rical archaeology can  illuminate the plural resident communities and ever
 yday spatial negotiations  that shaped colonial urban life in early modern
  South Asia.\n\n*BIO: *Prapti Panda is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at 
 Northwestern  University. Trained as a historical archaeologist, her rese
 arch focuses on  colonial urbanism, heritage politics, and architectural
  history in coastal  western India. Her ongoing doctoral research has rece
 ived support from  institutions including the Luso-American Development Fo
 undation and the  American Philosophical Society.\n\nDate: Wednesday, May
  27, 2026 - 12:00am to 1:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Contact Name: Sumiji Taka
 hahshi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Contact Phone: 310-825-4169\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Con
 tact Email: sutakahashi@ioa.ucla.edu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Registration: regis
 tration not required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Events Tags: Pizza Talk [2]\n\n\n\n
 \n\n\n\n\n Location: Fowler A222 (Seminar Room)\n\n[1] https://ioa.ucla.ed
 u/content/weds-talks-archaeologies-colonial-city-south-asia-mapping-archit
 ecture-and-social-difference [2] https://ioa.ucla.edu/event-tags/pizza-tal
 k
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LOCATION:Fowler A222 (Seminar Room)
SUMMARY:WEDS TALKS: Archaeologies of the Colonial City in South Asia: Mappi
 ng  Architecture and Social Difference in Portuguese Chaul
URL;TYPE=URI:https://ioa.ucla.edu/content/weds-talks-archaeologies-colonial
 -city-south-asia-mapping-architecture-and-social-difference
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