Events archive
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Akshi Singh (Queen Mary University of London)
15 November 2021 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
‘I have some Garos as my tenants. Though otherwise very obedient and docile, they refused to tell me their dreams.’ Tarun Chandra Sinha, ‘Dreams of the Garos’ ‘When you have cut down all the trees... Read more
Mukulika Banerjee (LSE)
10 November 2021 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Pre - booking essential as space is limited - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cultivating-democracy-politics-and-citizenship-in-agrarian-india-tickets-184647765437 Cultivating Democracy provides a... Read more
Understanding Kashmir and the Abrogation of Article 370: law, History and Politics
Mohamad Junaid (MCLA) , Radhika Gupta (Leiden University) , Cabeiri de Bergh Robinson (Washington)
9 November 2021 - 3:00pm
Online - Zoom
‘Spectacles of domination: Kashmir and the Hindutva state’ Mohamad Junaid (MCLA) ‘From quietism to refusal: Shi’i political subjectivity on Kashmir’s frontier’ Radhika Gupta (Leiden University), ‘... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Suryakant Waghmore (IIT-Bombay), Hugo Gorringe (University of Edinburgh)
9 November 2021 - 2:00pm
Online - Zoom
To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YMnpsGBtRsyQ2ShWM8YZ5g Suryakant Waghmore and Hugo Gorringe will discuss their recent edited volume on civility in India. Democracy and its... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Rohit De (Yale University)
8 November 2021 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
Rohit De is an Associate Professor of History at Yale University and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. A lawyer and a historian of South Asia and the common law world, he is the... Read more
Understanding Kashmir and the Abrogation of Article 370: law, History and Politics
Amar Sohal (Cambridge), Iffat Rashid (Oxford) , Mridu Rai (Presidency University, Kolkata)
2 November 2021 - 3:00pm
Online - Zoom
Understanding Kashmir and the Abrogation of Article 370: Law, History and Politics. A Symposium by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and the Asian Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Panel 1: The... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Pallavi Raghavan (Ashoka University, Delhi)
2 November 2021 - 2:00pm
Online - Zoom
Registration needed: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QMH-xuIoRcqD9nBAAeRgrw The years that immediately followed their partition offer many interesting insights into the shaping of the... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Ritu Birla (University of Toronto)
1 November 2021 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
This lecture returns to themes in the history of British imperial finance via approaches from the new interdisciplinary history of capitalism. Informed by attention to historical processes of... Read more
Christophe Jaffrelot, (Research at CERI Sciences Po/CNRS in Paris and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at King's College London)
27 October 2021 - 5:00pm
St Antony's College, Nissan Lecture Theatre
Pre booking essential - limited capacity - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modis-india-hindu-nationalism-and-the-rise-of-ethnic-democracy-tickets-183344577567 Over the past two decades, thanks to... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Rohan Deb Roy (Reading)
26 October 2021 - 2:00pm
Online - Zoom
Please register to join this seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L83-GaM4Q5ioYONBp93I2A The decolonial turn in the academy is recent but pervasive. Scholarly manifestoes in many... Read more
Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan)
25 October 2021 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
The churning that was happening in Indian historiography in the 1980s-90s came from multiple directions, including a new and reinvigorated feminist historiography. The latter’s ambition was never... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Maria Rashid (UCL)
19 October 2021 - 2:00pm
Zoom online
To regiseter and join this seminar please follow this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m5WyuVBzRM-XI_NUvGsKjg Saturated with tropes of honour, nation and gender, military deaths are... Read more
Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield)
18 October 2021 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
The rise of Hindu nationalism – or Hindutva – is often regarded as the apotheosis of religious ethno-nationalism in India. Adherents of Hindutva insist that theirs is a secular ideology but this... Read more
Suzanne Schneider (Deputy Director of the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research)
12 October 2021 - 5:00pm
St Antony's, Nissan Lecture Theatre
Pre-booing essrntial limited capacity https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/suzanne-schneider-book-talk-tickets-181010536387 In this authoritative, accessible study, historian Suzanne Schneider examines the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Malini Sur (University of Western Sydney)
12 October 2021 - 2:00pm
Online - Zoom
To Register and join this seminar please follow this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qkNJ3qvORmWIDVqsDSiB2w This talk explores the ambiguities surrounding Indian citizenship in... Read more