Wednesday, September 24th, 2025. Lecture by Anna-Louise Meynell on 'Tracing Transitions: Textile histories in the borderlands of Undivided Bengal and Northeast India.' Via Zoom. 1800.

This talk will explore tribal textiles of Meghalaya and Assam along the shifting borders with Undivided Bengal, until the creation of Bangladesh and the international border. It will introduce the ethnic groups of these areas, the fibres, looms and textiles, unpacking the impact of significant socio-political change on the tribal textile practices.

The talk follows the launch of the book Textiles from Bengal: A Shared Legacy, which will be reviewed in the autumn issue of the ORTS journal.