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The Archives at NCBS invites you to the second Obaid Siddiqui Lecture, to be delivered by Dr. Samira Sheikh, Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science (2025–26).

Thursday, July 16, 2026
5:30 PM
Conference Hall (Ground Floor), Training Centre, National Law School of India University

Walking the Dotted Line: Mapping Borders Before the Nation
Indian surveyors walked the territories they mapped, armed with precise strides and bamboo rods. Astronomers measured locations in the sky and on land. Seafarers plotted rhumb lines between ports and along coasts. But few marked political boundaries on their maps. This second lecture explores what it meant when such boundaries began to appear in Indian cartography. Do pioneering mapmaker Sadanand’s dotted lines in 1780 mark a moment when mapping became newly legal, administrative, and extractive?

Please find more information about the lectures here: https://www.ncbs.res.in/events/osl

Registration is mandatory. Please carry a government-issued ID when you arrive at the NLS Main Gate.

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