Events archive
South Asia Seminar
Dr Philip Lutgendorf (Iowa)
27 October 2020 - 2:00pm to 2:45pm
Online via Teams Live Events
(abstract) This illustrated talk details the promotion and spread of tea-drinking in 20th century India. Drawing on both archival and field research, it focuses on the mass popularization of “chai”... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Dilip Menon (Witwatersrand)
20 October 2020 - 2:00pm to 2:45pm
Online via Teams Live Events
Abstract Conjunctures and crises reveal the fault lines of a society. Covid 19 and the resultant lockdown in India have brought back memories of the devastation wrought by the flu epidemic of 1918... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Nayanika Mathur (CSASP/ OSGA, Oxford) , Rosalind O'Hanlon (Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford)
13 October 2020 - 2:00pm to 2:45pm
Online via Teams Live Events
Abstract In this opening session of the Modern South Asian Studies seminars, we put the disciplines of history and anthropology into conversation with one another to consider how the academic study... Read more