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A la Ronde Symposium - 'Transcultural-ism in Nineteenth-Century Mofussil India: Begam Samru and Her Architecturally Hybrid Sardhana Palace'

Jyoti P Sharma presenting a paper at the A la Ronde Symposium
Jyoti P Sharma, A la Ronde Symposium | © National Trust / Richard Gregory

On 11th July 2024 we held our Symposium, entitled ‘Female Craft and Design in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries’. Held at Reed Hall, University of Exeter, we invited a wide range of people to share stories about A la Ronde and how it connects to the wider world. This paper 'Transcultural-ism in Nineteenth-Century Mofussil India: Begam Samru and Her Architecturally Hybrid Sardhana Palace' was presented by Professor Jyoti Pandey Sharma, as part of the panel 'Female-Designed and Commissioned Domestic Spaces'.

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Transcultural-ism in Nineteenth-Century Mofussil India: Begam Samru and Her Architecturally Hybrid Sardhana Palace

Professor Jyoti Pandey Sharma presents her paper 'Transcultural-ism in Nineteenth-Century Mofussil India: Begam Samru and Her Architecturally Hybrid Sardhana Palace' at the A la Ronde symposium 2024.

Biography: Professor Jyoti Pandey Sharma

Jyoti Pandey Sharma is a Professor and current head of Architecture in the Department of Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. She graduated from Chandigarh College of Architecture, and her doctoral work, was undertaken at De Montfort University, United Kingdom.

She critically engages with issues about architectural and urban history, built heritage and cultural landscapes, focussing on Indian Subcontinent’s Islamic and Colonial eras. Her research is widely published. She has been an invited speaker at a number of international symposia and conferences. Her research has also received awards and fellowships. She has been a Summer Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University and a UGC Associate at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India.

Her recent monograph on Delhi titled, Colonialism, Uprising and the Urban Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Delhi has been published by Routledge in 2023 under the Research in Architectural History category.

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The Symposium 

On 11th July 2024, A la Ronde hosted its first academic conference, ‘The Symposium: Female Craft and Design in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries’. Learn more about the day here.