Events archive

South Asia Seminar

The Economics of Religion in India

Sriya Iyer (Faculty of Economics and St. Catharine's College, University of Cambridge)
29 January 2019 - 2:00pm
Fellows Dining Room, St Antony's College
Abstract: This talk on the economics of religion in India is based on research conducted in India for over a decade. The talk asks why we need an economics of religion for India and discusses... Read more
South Asia Seminar

The Cast(e) of the Colonial Police: Constables and Chaukidars in Colonial Bengal

Partha Pratim Shil (Trinity College, University of Cambridge)
22 January 2019 - 2:00pm
Fellows Dining Room, St Antony's College
Abstract: This presentation explores two workforces at the bottom of the coercive apparatus of the colonial state in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These are police... Read more
South Asia Seminar

CANCELLED - Speculations on Infrastructure: from colonial public works to global asset class on the Indian Railways 1840-2017

Laura Bear (LSE)
15 January 2019 - 2:00pm
Fellows Dining Room, St Antony's College
Abstract: This talk opens up the history of the economic theories, nodal financial formulae and legal regimes that have governed the Indian railways in order to develop a new theoretical approach to... Read more