In this talk, Professor Madhu Singh of the Department of English and Modern European Languages, Lucknow University and recipient of the Fulbright - Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship at Stanford University will propose to trace the role of California-based periodicals, pamphlets, and newspapers etc. of expatriate Punjabi-Sikh migrants and Indian intellectuals on the anti-colonial struggle in India, spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Professor Singh employs the term ‘print culture’ which encompasses not only printed matter as texts but also the people involved in the production, distribution and reception of print and the networks they created to facilitate those processes.