• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Tuesdays at 2pm

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 14:00 - The Cast(e) of the Colonial Police: Constables and Chaukidars in Colonial Bengal
  Partha Shil (Trinity College, Cambridge)

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 14:00 - The Economics of Religion in India
  Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 14:00 - Unfixed land and the making of Contemporary India
  Nikita Sud (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 14:00 - Connected Histories? Arabia, India and the Architecture of Medieval Ethiopia
  Finbarr Barry Flood (Director, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University)

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 14:00 - What's the Party like? The Normative state of the Politcial Party in Souh Asia
  Change of venue - Syndicate Room - Old Main Building, St Antony's College
  Udit Bhatia (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 February 2019

• 14:00 - Continuity in mind: Imagination and migration on India and the Gulf
  Change of Venue - Syndicate Room, Old Main Building, St Antony's College
  Thomas Chambers (Oxford Brookes University)

Tuesday 5 March 2019

• 14:00 - Before the Nation-State: Christian Internationalism and the Inter-War Years
  Sneha Krishnan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 April 2019

• 14:00 - Fundamental Rights Lawfare: Religious Freedom and Public Order in Pakistan and Malaysia
  Matthew Nelson (SOAS)
• 17:00 - Book Launch: In Their Own Words -Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba
  C. Christine Fair (Georgetown University)

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 14:00 - Commodities, Merchants, and Refungees: Inter-Asian circulations and Afghan mobilty
  Magnus Marsden (University of Sussex)

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 14:00 - Single in the City: Women, Migration and Domestic Work in India
  TBA

Tuesday 21 May 2019

• 14:00 - The Paradox of Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism
  Mick Moore (Institute of Development Studies)

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 14:00 - Cultural Practices and Child Health in Pakistan
  Professor Theresa Thompson Chaudhry (Lahore School of Economics)

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 13:30 - Tribal land and alienation and Adivasi movement for autonomy in India and Bangladesh
  Dr Dalel Benbabaali (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Area Studies, St John's Oxford)

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 14:00 - Centralisation and nationalism in the making of Indian capitalism
  Professor Pritam Singh (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 14:00 - Nationalism, Development, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
  TBA

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 14:00 - Gandhi @150: Rethinking India’s Non-Violent Revolutionary
  Dr Talat Ahmed (Edinburgh)

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 14:00 - Towards a Religious Internationalism? The Indian Khilafat Movement in Interwar Europe
  Faridah Zaman

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 14:00 - Gandhi's Spell on the Bollywood Hero
  Sanjay Suri (Europe correspondent, CNN News18 media group)

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 14:00 - Capitalism in the Himalaya
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 14:00 - Forests, Famines and livlihoods: towards an environmental history of Eastern India
  CANCELLED
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 14:00 - Arms, Arts and Agriculture: Indo-Mexican Intellectual Connections in the Early Twentieth Century
  Jesus Chairez-Garcia (Manchester)

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 14:00 - 'For a better future': Education and unstable future-making in Nepal
  Uma Pradhan

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 14:00 - A millenarian sultan and a teacher to the world: New directions in early modern Indo-Muslim kingship
  Roy Fischel (SOAS, University of London)

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 14:00 - Highways to the end of the World: Roads, Road-Builders and the Archiecture of Power in South Asia
  CANCELLED
  Ed Simpson (SOAS< University of London)

Tuesday 28 April 2020

• 14:00 - The white ant's burden: Insects, empire and entomo-politics in South Asia
  Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading)

Tuesday 13 October 2020

• 14:00 - Global histories of hierarchy? Reflections from India on caste, race and the Black Lives Matter movement
  Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford), Dr Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 October 2020

• 14:00 - Pandemic as event: thinking modern Indian society through a crisis
  Dilip Menon (Witswatersrand)

Tuesday 27 October 2020

• 14:00 - “Chai – why?” The making of the Indian “national drink”
  Philip Lutgendorf (Iowa)

Tuesday 3 November 2020

• 14:00 - Domestic audience costs and foreign policy making in India: recent shifts in the BJP's strategy
  Happymon Jacob (JNU)

Tuesday 10 November 2020

• 14:00 - Rajput loyalties in the Mughal age
  Cynthia Talbot (Texas at Austin)

Tuesday 17 November 2020

• 14:00 - Domestic devotion: Jain wooden house shrines from Gujarat in American museum collections
  John E Cort (Denison)

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 14:00 - Jeko Khere So Khaye (He who tills has the right to eat): 'development' and the politics of agrarian reform in late 1940s and early 1950s in Sindh
  Sarah Ansari (RHUL)

Tuesday 19 January 2021

• 14:00 - Kalki and the Mahdi: The Twenty-Four Avatars of the Dasam Granth
  Professor Robin Rinehart (Lafayette College)

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 14:00 - Highway 31: A road trip through the heart of modern India
  Ed Simpson (SOAS< University of London)

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 14:00 - A Contrapuntal History of Hindustan
  Dr Manan Ahmed Asif (University of Columbia)

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 14:00 - Delusional states: Love, Citzenship and resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan
  Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU)

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 14:00 - Encoutering Kabir: From Old Manuscripts to Living Oral Traditions
  Dr Linda Hess (Standford)

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 14:00 - Communist Internationalism and Decolonization in South Asia
  TBA

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 14:00 - The Play of the Guru: Braj Historical Poetry in Early Modern Punjab
  Dr Julie Vig (University of Toronto)

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 14:00 - Maoists, peasant rebellion and state formation in post-colonial Northwest Pakistan
  Noaman G Ali (LUMS)

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 14:00 - The place of many moods: Udaipur's painted lands and India's eighteenth century
  Dipti Khera (NYU)

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 14:00 - Printing the Urdu public: Madinah newspaper and lithography as Muslim technology
  Megan Eaton Robb (Pennsylvania)

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 14:00 - Borders and Identities: Who is a “Bangladeshi” in Assam?
  Malini Sur (University of Western Sydney)

Tuesday 19 October 2021

• 14:00 - Affect as a Technology of Rule: Militarism in Pakistan
  Maria Rashid (UCL)

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 14:00 - Decolonise Mosquitoes
  Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading)

Tuesday 2 November 2021

• 14:00 - The Lessons of 1950: Partition, and the making of the India- Pakistan Dynamic
  Pallavi Raghavan (Ashoka University, Delhi)

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 14:00 - Citizenship, Publicness and the Politics of Inclusive Democracy in India
  Suryakant Waghmore (IIT-Bombay), Hugo Gorringe (University of Edinburgh)

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 14:00 - Hidden histories of science; Ammal, Darlington, Haldane, and India, 1930-1060
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 14:00 - Atrocity Nation / State Amnesia : The Photographic Debris of the Sri Lankan Civil War
  Vindhya Buthpitiya (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Kashmir
  Mona Bhan (Syracuse University), Mohamad Junaid (MCLA), Hafsa Kanjwal (Lafayette College)

Tuesday 25 January 2022

• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Bureaucracy
  Yamini Aiyar (CPR, Delhi), Maira Hayat (Notre Dame), Zehra Hashmi (Brown University), Prof Akshay Mangla (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Animals
  Naisargi Dave (Toronto), Radhika Govindrajan (Washington), Muhammad Kavesh (Toronto), Dolly Kikon (Melbourne), Ambika Aiyadurai (IIT, Gandhinagar)

Tuesday 8 February 2022

• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Climate Change
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 14:00 - Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Queer Politics
  Dr Adriaan Van Klinken (University of Leeds), Erick Keizi (Cosmopolitan Affirming Community, Nairobi)

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 14:00 - Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Covid-19
  Shaeera Kalla (C19 Peoples’ Coalition, South Africa), Tarangini Sriraman (Goldsmiths), Jeevan Baniya (Social Science Baha, Nepal)

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 14:00 - Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Corruption
  Rui Verde and Rafael Marques (Oxford and Maka Angola), Malini Ranganathan (American University)

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 14:00 - Fashioning Subjects: From Farmer, to Soldier, to Patriot
  Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 14:00 - ‘British Bolé Baap Re Baap’ - World War II and the Prospect of ‘Quit India’ in Bengal: ‘War’ Rumours and ‘Revolutionary’ Parties
  Anwesha Roy (Oxford)

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 14:00 - ‘Technology at the Wheel’: Computers, Data and Tech-Utopianisms in the Political Imagination of 1980s India
  Amogh Dhar Sharma (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 May 2022

• 14:00 - The Cosmopolitan Standard of Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Elite Belonging among Indian Diplomats
  Dr Kira Huju (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 14:00 - A ‘Harry Potter’ in 1354 and the emergence of a vernacular literary tradition in the Hindi Belt
  Imre Bangha (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 October 2022

• 14:00 - Rising India's Hidden Transcripts: The Long Shadow of 'Nuclear Apartheid' in the Global Nuclear Order
  Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 14:00 - A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India
  Professor Vasudha Chhotray (University of East Anglia)

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 14:00 - Urdu as a language for Science? Textbook experiments in Roorkee College of Engineering in the nineteenth century
  Sajid Nizami (Government M.A.O. College, Lahore; Academic Visitor, OS)

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 14:00 - Coercion and Compromise: Militarism and Informality in Everyday Policing
  Dr Zoha Waseem (University of Warwick)

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 14:00 - Book Launch – Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan
  Registration required for zoom attendance
  Dr Yasser Kureshi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 14:00 - Global India and the politics of accountability in South-South Cooperation
  Laura Trajber Waisbich (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 14:00 - The Ethical Impulse(s) behind Civil Rights Activism in India
  Ankita Pandey (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 14:00 - Free Speech in Mughal India: Dissent and Resistance in Poetic Expression
  Saif Mahmood (Bonavero Institute, Oxford)

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 14:00 - Musical Citizens and Postcolonial Custodians: Inter-religious Dialogue in Post-Partition Punjab and Beyond
  Radha Kapuria (Durham University)

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 14:00 - The Indian Diaspora and Transnational Political Identities
  Edward Anderson (Northumbria University)

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 14:00 - Buddhism and Marginality in Translation among Ambedkarites in East Asia
  Dr Jon Keune (Michigan State University)

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 14:00 - The Materiality of Debt, Kinship, and the Invisible Violence of Migration in Nepal
  Dr Ina Zharkevich (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 14:00 - A Cowherd’s Chapbook: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Literary Historiography
  Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 14:00 - Documenting oral histories of Partition collaboratively across a communal divide
  Guneeta Singh Bhalla (Partition Archive, India)

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 14:00 - Rohingyas in Decolonisation as a Moment, Process, and Movement
  Dr Jayita Sarkar (Glasgow)

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 14:00 - Spaces of Melancholia, Melancholias of Space: Shifting Structures of Feeling in Post-Independence Karachi
  Dr Ayyaz Mallick (Liverpool)

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 14:00 - Entangled Objects, Entangled Nations: Partition and Museums in Lahore and Chandigarh
  Aparna Kumar (UCL)

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 14:00 - India as a ‘civilisational state’
  Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambrdige), Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford), Sebastian Haug (University of Cambrdige), Jayati Sristava, Esra Elif Nartok, Udayan Das, Shibashis Chatterjee

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 14:00 - Resistance and Change in Pakistan’s Political Order
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 14:00 - A City of Men? Youth Masculinities and Everyday Gendered Violences in Urban India
  Shannon Philips (UEA)

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 14:00 - Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories
  Also on Zoom - registration required - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_snw0VJWPTc6720z8W0sCpw
  Pervez Hoodbhoy

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 14:00 - Limitations on fundamental freedoms in Sri Lanka: majoritarian influence of constitutional practice
  Gehan Gunatilleke (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 14:00 - Rising power, precarious citizens: Mobility and democracy in India after 1989
  Indrajit Roy (QEH, Oxford)

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 14:00 - Majoritarian nationalisms and religion in South Asia
  Katharine Adeney (University of Nottingham)

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 14:00 - An Emotional History of India in the Second World War
  Gupta Diya (City, University of London)

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 14:00 - Migration, Caste, and the Figure of the 'Coolie' in Indian Diplomatic History
  Kalathmika Natarajan (University of Exeter)

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 14:00 - Rethinking urban resistance as sites for rebuilding differential solidarities
  Papia Sen Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 14:00 - Thirty seconds at Quetta: Time and disaster on the North-West Frontier, 1935
  Dan Haines (UCL)

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 14:00 - The Rājā Yogī through the ages: Ascetic Sovereignty in India
  Jim Mallinson (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 14:00 - An Anthropology of 'Sovereignty'. New Land Markets, an Entrepreneurial State and the Aspirations of a ‘Criminal Caste’ in Gurgaon, Haryana
  Sanjay Srivastava (SOAS)

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 14:00 - Comparative understanding of climate change news audiences across eight countries
  Dr Waqas Ejaz (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 14:00 - The value of difference: Hindu Muslim encounters in Karachi, Pakistan
  Ammara Maqsood (UCL)

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 14:00 - Towards an Anthropology of Answers: The Lost Trajectories of the Racialized Colonial Domestic Workers in South India and Beyond.’
  Shalini Grover (LSE)

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 14:00 - Temporary Exhibits: The Cultural Politics of South Asian ‘Folk’ Performances in Contemporary Fairs and Festivals
  Priyanka Basu (Kings College London)

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 14:00 - Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema
  Swapnil Rai (University of Michigan)

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 14:00 - "Politics and Persecution: Pashto, Pashtun and Pashtunistan" - Autobiography of Samad Khan Achakzai
  Ayaz Achakzai (Independent Public Policy Expert)

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 14:00 - Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka
  Bart Klem (Gothenburg University, Sweden)

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 14:00 - The nationalisation of rice. The postwar global crisis and the emergence of India’s national economy
  Jon Wilson (King's College London)

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 14:00 - “We are religious, patriotic, and self-sacrificial”: Baniya Power, Privilege, and Wealth Anxieties in India
  Ujithra Ponniah (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand)

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 14:00 - Deconstructing State and Identity in Pakistan
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 14:00 - Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
  Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India)

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 14:00 - The Muslim son of a Hindu zamindar - family quarrels and religious boundaries in a Mughal landlord's lineage
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 14:00 - Populism, piety and postfeminism in Pakistan
  Afiya Zia (Independent scholar)

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 14:00 - The political lives of Information: Information and invisibilisation in digital India
  Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 14:00 - Radical Futures or Pristine Pasts? : The Afterlives of Anti-Casteism in Western India
  Surajkumar Thube (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 14:00 - Book Talk: Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
  Omer Aijazi (Manchester)

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 14:00 - Hate crime law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan
  Sandhya Fuchs (University of Bristol)

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 14:00 - Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony
  Sandipto Dasgupta (New School for Social Research, New York and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 14:00 - Unfair ID: Digital Identity from Injustice to Resistance
  Silvia Masiero (University of Oslo)

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 14:00 - Threatening Dystopias: Development, Scientific Knowledge, and Adaptation to Climate Change
  Kasia Paprocki (The London School of Economics)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 14:00 - Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt
  Jayaseelan Raj (Kinds College London)

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 14:00 - Between Nation and Community. Muslim Universities and Indian Politics after Partition (1947-1990s)
  Laurence Gautier (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)