‘Maps of Memory’ Featured at MAHE’s ‘Maitri – Dialogues in Social Sciences’ Festival
October 30, 2025
The NLS Law and Society Archives was delighted to collaborate with the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, to present selections from Maps of Memory: The Uma Chakravarti Collection at their festival, Maitri – Dialogues in Social Sciences, held on October 16 and 17, 2025.
About the exhibition
The NLS Archives’ Maps of Memory exhibition displays archival fragments and glimpses of personal memory to reconstruct joyful utopian worlds that feminists began building across South Asia in the mid-20th century. It invites us to reflect on key questions: How do we remember social movements? How do we archive friendships, solidarities, and struggles?
Featuring Dr. Uma Chakravarti’s collection from the NLS Archives, the exhibition offers a visual, cinematic, and scholarly journey through people’s movements in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Through posters, films, and groundbreaking historical research, it invites visitors to engage with the intertwined narratives of friendships and struggles for democratic rights across South Asia.
The NLS Archives team thanks former NLS faculty member Diya Deviah for design and research, and Dr. Swathi Shivanand and Dr. Chantu S. of MAHE for making this collaboration possible.