Asian Studies Centre

Saili Palande-Datar gives the fourth and final presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Bina Sengar gives the third presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Sachin Ketkar gives the second presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Anjali Nerlekar gives the first talk on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Rahul Sarwate gives the fourth presentation on the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Shraddha Kumbhojkar gives the third presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Dominic Vendell gives the second presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Roy Fischel gives the first presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

This talk examines the emotional and intimate logics of occupation, citizenship, and state-making in Gilgit-Baltistan, a contested borderland between India and Pakistan that forms part of the Kashmir dispute.

Manan Amend (Columbia), gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series.

Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series. This talk explores connections between ‘development’ and the politics of agrarian reform in Sindh (Pakistan) during the period of transition straddling Independence. On the one hand, it highlights the place of development thinking in contemporary debates and policy making there before and after 1947; on the oth...

Cynthia Talbot (Texas at Austin) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series on Mughal India and the Rajput. What did loyalty mean to warriors in the rapidly changing political landscape of early modern North India? I look at three case studies from the late sixteenth century in which elite warriors had to make hard choices about their competing loyalties to family members and to thei...

Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) and Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford) give a talk for the Modern South Asian Studies seminars on the Black Lives Matter movement. 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 of race and caste has changed over time. We are interested in c...

Unlike ever before in India’s history, domestic political calculations and audience costs dictate the shaping of the country’s foreign and security policy. Under the Bharatiya Janata Party government, key foreign and security policy pursuits are often not undertaken for their own sake, but to cater to domestic electoral outcomes and spin convenient political narratives. The events that followed th...

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 and the political crackdown by the colonial government. There has been a great abandonment of labour and the poor by the present government as much as an emerging compact between state and capital to restructure...

Book reading and Discussion with Gurmehar Kaur

Disscussion on the Political Crisis in Sri Lanka

Public lecture by Professor Gyan Prakash (Princeton University) from 31 October 2018

Alenka Zupancic's lecture on 'Love thy neighbour as theyself' from 6 November 2018 Reference to Christianity and to Christian tradition is one of the key ingredients of the expanding right-wing identity politics in Europe (and more largely, in the West), including its more or less explicit nationalism and racism. The commandment to love your Neighbour as yourself obviously presents this politics w...

Ryan Wolfson-Ford speaks at the 'Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism' workshop 28 January 2018.

Thahir Jamal Kiliyamannil and Manasi Mohanan Sushama speak at the 'Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism' workshop 28 January 2018.

Pradeep Sangapala and Nihal Perera speak at the 'Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism' workshop 28 January 2018.

Partha Mitter and Mallica Kumbera Landrus speak at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Sudarshan Shetty and Vyjayanthi Rao speak at the Art of Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.

Saleem Arif Quadri and Sarah Wilson speak at the Art of Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.