An overview of the projects devel­oped with­in the MIDA Long Term Project:

Movements and Concepts: Production of Images of India in GDR Newsreels

Reyazul Haque

Sta­tus: running

A botanical drawing of the species Phaseolus fuscus from Wallich's book Plantae Asiaticae Rariores

German Botanists in and around India and their participation in colonialism

Dr. Tobias Delfs

Sta­tus: running

Vocational training in the Indian steel and engineering industries: histories of Indo-German co-operation, c. 1950–1989

Jose­fine Hoffmann

Sta­tus: running

Mountaineering as transcultural encounters: labour in the German Himalayan expedition (1929–1953)

Nokmedem­la Lemtur

Sta­tus: running

Indo-German Intellectual History — Religion and Spirituality in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic (1871–1933)

Dr. Mar­tin Christof-Füchsle

Sta­tus: running

Completed Projects

Materialising Visibility, Preparing Recognition: The ‚cultural‘ politics of GDR-India relations, 1952–1972

Dr. Anan­di­ta Bajpai

Sta­tus: completed

Berlin, Besuch Indira Gandhi; Stoph, Honecker

South Asia as a Cold War Arena — The two German States and India in the Bangladesh Liberation War 1971

Alexan­der Benatar

Sta­tus: completed

From Berlin to Delhi: Education, Intellectual Exchange and Politics of Translation in the life and writings of Sayyid Abid Husain (1896–1978)

Dr. Razak Khan

Sta­tus: completed