Step through a portal into history by attending this discussion on Hyderabad’s famous dargahs. When we think of places where history is told to us, we think about museums, textbooks, and documentaries. But what about places we visit all the time without necessarily thinking about history? What about the stories we tell at such places? The saint who tamed the Musi, the saint who took a vow of silence, the saint who was a slave, the saint who watched over goats. This is history too. History is all around us, not simply confined to the walls of academic institutions. Using a combination of archival, oral, and spatial history methods, Aidan Reilly investigates how dargahs act as repositories of oral history, connecting the city of Hyderabad to both itself, and faraway lands.

Aidan is a master's student of Public History at the University of South Carolina under the direction of South Asian Historian Dr. Sarah Waheed. He has spent the last two months researching dargahs in Hyderabad for his MA Thesis, with the help of Hyderabad Urban Labs and many friends.

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