Key Note Address University of London Conference

 A wonderful Conference at Birkbeck, University of London on, The world of Medieval women :Comparative prespectives. Gave the keynote  address which was very well received. Here historians do not know much of Indian history, especially of  Medieval India. I also enjoyed listning  to others, especially medieval history  scholars from Paris, Leeds, Birmingham and of course Birkbeck. At the end of the day the realisation dawns that though  we are  in different area, different geographical locations and yet women were going through the same kind of constraints and restrictions, be in Europe, Byzantine, Egypt, South Asia in a particular period. It will be great if a book comes out of the Conference where we have a comparative study of women. Suresh also attended this Conference as a passive historian and told me that he enjoyed listning to  different histories across the world.