Translation historian of South Asia, Dr Hephzibah Israel, will present on how ideas on reform underpinned many cultural exchanges between Scotland and British India in the 19th and early 20th centuries. She will link setting up of schools by Scottish educationists in the ‘Black towns’ of key Indian cities, such as Bombay and Madras, to ‘re-form’ young natives with the wider circulation of languages, texts and objects through their writings.
