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Event Description: The first of three lectures in series called “Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness in Early Modern Eurasia,” “Courtly Competition” will deal with how Muslim and non-Muslim states in South Asia dealt with one other as court-systems in a situation of mutual borrowing as well as intense competition, which sometimes became violent conflict. It will treat the question of the court as a potentially ‘secular’ sphere, where the religious identities of participants were at times somewhat attenuated or rendered irrelevant, only to rise again to the surface periodically albeit in unexpected ways. All three Flexner lectures will be illustrated with contemporary visual materials. Having published more than 10 books, Dr. Subrahmanyam is a prolific, well-regarded scholar. He is also an accomplished teacher. He taught economic history and comparative economic development at the Delhi School of Economics from 1983 to 1995, when he moved to Paris as Directeur d’études in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. In 2002, Dr. Subrahmanyam moved to Oxford as the first holder of the newly created Chair in Indian History and Culture. In 2004, he became the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian History at ULCA. A year later, in 2005, he became founding Director of UCLA's Center for India and South Asia. Dr. Subrahmanyam’s vast contributions to the humanities were recognized when he was elected a 2009 fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For more information on the Flexner Lecture Series, visit www.brynmawr.edu/flexner