Announcing the eighth book event on South Asia-related topics held by Dartmouth College. 

Conversations on South Asia Series  

Aakriti Mandhwani, “Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India”, May 15th, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (EST). 
 
Join us for an engaging Zoom event with Aakriti Mandhwani as she discusses Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India which captures the significant and yet largely unexplored world of commercially successful print and publishing in post-Independence India. It examines the world of “middlebrow” commercial publishing and practices of reading of North Indian middle-classes in the 1950s and 60s, the decades immediately following Indian independence in 1947. Taking as its focus a range of bestselling Hindi middlebrow magazines and paperbacks, Everyday Reading constructs an alternative story for the 1950s: one that is marked by consumption. It argues that middle classes who read these publications were everyday active consumers who defied the state’s prescriptions, carving their roles outside the logic of the austere new nation.

📚 Book Spotlight: “Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India” by Aakriti Mandhwani
📅 Date: May 15, 2025
⏰ Time: 12:15 PM-1:30 PM EST
📍 Virtual Zoom 
💻 Register Here: 
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WGkIkJxOTaylYrYjQc3IQQ

🎙️Speaker
Aakriti Mandhwani, Associate Professor, Shiv Nadar University

🎙️Commentators
Priya Joshi, Professor, English, Temple University

Abhijit Gupta, Professor, English, Jadavpur University

🎙️Moderator
Manav Kapur, Lecturer, History, Dartmouth College

Sponsored by the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages (ASCL) and the Bodas Family Endowment for South Asian Studies at Dartmouth College. 
 
QR code (leads to registration form) on the poster.