Events archive
South Asia Seminar
Roy S. Fischel (SOAS, University of London)
18 February 2020 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
The language of kingship in early modern India has often been discussed as an issue of power and spiritual authority with a millenarian flavour. Multiple origins were grouped to create a composite... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Uma Pradhan (Oxford)
11 February 2020 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Universal schooling has long been considered imperative in attaining better future; both for the state and its people, especially in the Global South. This presentation traces these narratives of ‘... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Jesus Chairez-Garza (University of Manchester)
4 February 2020 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
This paper explores a largely unknown intellectual and political connection between India and Mexico in the early twentieth century. First, I look at the life of Pandurang Khankhoje, an India... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
28 January 2020 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
This seminar will discuss the impact of globalisation on the forested landscapes and indigenous or adivasi cultures of India will focus on the environmental and mining history of Eastern India and... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Barbara Harriss-White (Oxford)
21 January 2020 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Barbara Harriss-White drove from Cambridge to New Delhi in 1969 and has studied and taught about India ever since, working in the cracks between political economy and economic anthropology. She (co)... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Sanjay Suri (Europe Correspondent for CNN News 18 Media Group)
26 November 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Gandhi cast an inescapable spell on the story path of the Bollywood hero from the days of Indian independence through to the seventies. Heroism is shown to lie in rejection of wealth and sexual... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Faridah Zaman (Oxford)
19 November 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
In the history of anticolonial internationalism, pan-Islamism occupies a vexed position. Its history prior to the First World War, particularly in India, suggested it could be a friend to nascent... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Talat Ahmed (Edinburgh)
12 November 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, Old Main Building
2019 marks the 150th birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi. To many he remains an inspirational figure - the apostle of peace who almost single-handedly led the struggle to free India from the yoke of... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Rajesh Venugopal (LSE)
5 November 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Rajesh Venugopal book: Nationalism, Development, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka was published in November 2018 by Cambridge University Press. In it, he explores how the economic and the ethnic have... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Pritam Singh ( Wolfson)
29 October 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Abstract: Centralisation has been the defining characteristic of the Indian state's politico-economic policy objective irrespective of the political party in power at the federal/central level. This... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Dalel Benbabaali (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies)
22 October 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
This seminar will analyse the factors that have led to tribal land alienation in South Asia and how Adivasis’ struggles for autonomy constitute a response to their dispossession, based on a... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Theresa Thompson Chaudhry (Lahore School Of Economics)
15 October 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
In this talk, I’ll be discussing the relationship with child stunting of two practices that are common in the local context. The first is son-biased fertility stopping behaviour, where parents... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Mahboob Hussain (University of the Punjab/ CSASP Academic Visitor)
6 June 2019 - 12:30pm
Deakin Room, St Antony's College
South Asia Seminar
Raza Rumi (Director, Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College and Faculty, Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, Editor in Chief, Naya Daur) , Ayesha Siddiqa (SOAS) , Bilal Zahoor (Editorial Director Folio Books) , Karamat Ali (Pakistan Institue of Labour Education)
4 June 2019 - 5:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
South Asia Seminar
Arshi Hashmi (National Defense University, Pakistan/Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Fellow for Pakistan, CSASP)
30 May 2019 - 12:30pm
Deakin Room, St Antony's College