Vernacular Victoria: The Queen in the Languages of South Asia began life as an international online colloquium hosted by the Department of English at Ashoka University, Haryana, in collaboration with the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad (India). Participants were invited to give papers based on an archive of vernacular eulogies, addresses, memorials, and biographies collected by Miles Taylor during the course of research for his book Empress: Queen Victoria and India (Yale University Press, 2018). Following the colloquium of April 26–27, 2021, further commissions were undertaken as the editors broadened the scope of the project.

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维多利亚白话：南亚语言中的女王最初是由哈里亚纳邦阿育王大学英语系与海得拉巴大学（印度）英语系合作主办的国际在线研讨会。参与者受邀根据迈尔斯·泰勒在其书研究过程中收集的白话悼词、演讲、纪念馆和传记档案发表论文皇后：维多利亚女王和印度（耶鲁大学出版社，2018）。在 2021 年 4 月 26 日至 27 日的研讨会之后，随着编辑们扩大了项目范围，还进行了进一步的委托。