Posted by marci.l.angevine@Vanderbilt.Edu on Friday, March 13, 2015 in Activities Everyone.

Presented by: Samira Sheikh, Associate Professor of History, Asian Studies and Islamic Studies.

India (1977) Dir: Satyajit Ray. Based on a story by Munshi Premchand, this satirical film is set in colonial India in 1856. The British Resident of the East India Company has observed that the monarch of Lucknow seems to be completely uninterested in government. Embroiled in a long-running chess rivalry, two local noblemen cannot be bothered with such minor issues as who is governing whom. Meanwhile, conditions in the kingdom go from bad to worse. An incisive dissection of culture shock and class privilege. Urdu, English, and Hindi with English subtitles. DVD. 129 mins. Partially funded by the Department of History.