Zweisprachige Ausgabe Englisch - Deutsch The "Thyssen Lectures" are a continuation of a
tradition that the Fritz Thyssen Foundation initiated in 1979 first at various institutions
throughout Germany and then at several universities in Czechia Israel the Russian Federation
Turkey and most recently Greece. The series in the United Kingdom and Ireland will be held ove
a period of four years. Spearheaded by Prof. Christina von Hodenberg director of the German
Historical Insitute London it will be dedicated to the overarching theme of "Science
Knowledge and the Legacy of Empire". Worlding India Sumathi Ramaswamy's lecture focuses on a
range of modern disciplinary formations known generally as earth sciences - especially
geography and cartography - and explores how these sciences "worlded" one specific location on
the earth's surface "India" as a knowable calculable intelligible and masterable place
over the course of two centuries of British colonial rule. The lecture goes beyond the
processes of imperial world-making: using three examples Ramaswamy shows how the people of
India responded to and engaged with such processes in very different ways and very often on
their own terms. Following Dipesh Chakrabaty she demonstrates that for worldmaking projects in
colonial and postcolonial India the empire's gift of science is indispensable but inadequate.
