Professor Syed Amir Hasan Abidi
Memorial Society
Regd.No. S/2194/Distt.South/2016

A Great Treat for All Lovers of Mughal History and Culture
The Eight Professor Abidi Memorial Lecture

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Speaker: Dr. Ruby Lal
Professor of South Asian history at Emory University and the author of Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan.

On Sunday, 10th December 2023 at Iran Culture Centre,18 Tilak Marg, New Delhi at 5pm

Title: Historian's Craft: The Erasure of India’s Great Mughal Women

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Recent Events


7th Professor Abidi Memorial Lecture
The Rulers and the Ruled in Mughal Delhi: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective was delivered by Dr. Abhishek Kaicker, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, USA, & Author of The King & The People (OUP)
On Saturday, 14th January 2023 At India International Centre, New Delhi
The recording can be viewed on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOizNQRDU28


The Sixth Professor Abidi Memorial Lectures


was delivered by Dr. Nandini Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of History, Exeter University on Friday, 3rd December 2021. Her topic of lecture was: Household Archives as Sources of Mughal History: Challenges and Possibilities. A recording of the same can be viewed at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsoxwmeOq9I


Past Events


First Prof. Abidi Memorial Lecture

Astrology at the Mughal Court
By Professor Eva Orthmann
Institute of Indology and Islamic Studies, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Delivered the First Professor Syed Amir Hasan Abidi Memorial Lecture On 23rd March 2017 At Zakir Hussain College, New Delhi
Organised by
Professor Syed Amir Hasan Abidi Memorial Society
In Collaboration with Department of Persian, Zakir Hussain Delhi College (Evening), University of Delhi, New Delhi

A transcript of the lecture

Second Prof. Abidi Memorial Lecture

Secular and Radical Trends in Pre-modern Persian Literature
By Professor Irfan Habib
Professor Emeritus, Aligarh Muslim University Delivered the Second Professor Syed Amir Hasan Abidi Memorial Lecture On 12 March 2018
At Iran Culture House, New Delhi
Organised by
Professor Syed Amir Hasan Abidi Memorial Society
In Association with Iran Culture House, New Delhi

A transcript of the lecture

Video of the lecture

Third Prof. Abidi Memorial Lecture

Musicians, tazkiras, and the scattering of Shahjahanabad: where music went after Muhammad Shah "Rangeela".
by Or. Katherine Butler scnofield, king's College London
At Iran Culture House Auditorium, Tilak Marg, New Delhi on 11th Dec. 2018
Mr William Dalrymple, distinguished historian and author of The Last Mughal presided
Dr. Katherine Schofield is an acknowledged expert on the arts and culture of Mughal and early colonial India and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society

A transcript of the lecture

Video of the lecture

Fifth Prof. Abidi Memorial Lecture

The Fifth Professor Abidi Memorial Lectures was delivered by Dr. Supriya Gandhi of Yale University and author of Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shikoh in Mughal India on Sat.5th December 2020. Her topic of lecture was: Sitting with the Emperor: Dialogue and Assembly in Jahangir’s Court. A recording of the same can be viewed at:

Video of the lecture