Barbara Roe

Name:	Barbara Roe
Affiliation:	Assistant staff
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Public lists managed by Barbara Roe

• Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars
• Centre of South Asian Studies occasional events

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• THIS LECTURE IS CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED: Artfully walking with Gandhi
• The Dr Raj Chandavarkar Seminar - Global Islam: what is it and where did it come from?
• Reconstructing the Palembang royal library
• Beyond religion in India and Pakistan: gender and caste, borders and boundaries
• Complicating the narrative of ‘Islamic architecture’: looking across rooted cosmopolitanisms in maritime South India and Southeast Asia, 18th to early 20th centuries
• Contested collections: museums in the Punjab princely states, 1947-1957
• The enabling powers of authoritarian coercion: state forms of Islam at work in Brunei and Singapore
• Mao-lana Bhashani in Mao’s China: Islamic socialism and subaltern internationalism in Asia
• Democracy and Emergency in India
• Towards a religious internationalism? The Indian Khilafat Movement in interwar Europe
• Mayalee Dancing Girl, the East India Company, and the Sambhar Salt Lake Affair 1835-42
• The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission: personal reflections with special attention to South Asian labour in Mauritius
• Recognising the Other: religion and society in pre-modern North India
• Contemporary Sri Lankan Anglophone writing
• Literary activism in Cold War India: the short story, the magazine and the world
• From the courtroom to the courtyard - the public life of personal law in post-independence India
• The travails of a migrating concept - art in the crossfire between the 'religious' and the 'aesthetic'
• Exhibiting South Asia: panel discussion
• Populism and/as Nationalism: ideas, sentiment and the nation
• Communist women in Bengal: patterns of self-representations
• White noise, séances and colonial linguistics
• The Economics of Religion in India
• A historian as petitioner: Ghulam Husain Khan Tabataba’i and the late Mughal context for colonial state-formation in eighteenth century India
• Rethinking the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• Discourses of caste over the long duree: re-framing Brahman identity in modern India
• Jugaad Innovation: the implications for South Asia
• Benoy Kumar Sarkar – interwar internationalism, geopolitics, totalitarianism
• Love as understanding: marriage, aspiration and the joint family in middle-class Pakistan
• Christopher Bayly’s `Remaking the Modern World’. Round-table discussion with Alison Bashford, Richard Drayton, Ruth Harris and Sujit Sivasundaram (a joint event with the World History Seminar)
• Moor “culture” in independent Ceylon: the 1940s establishment of the Moors Islamic Cultural Home
• The work of art in the age of digital reproduction: history, violence, self and
• The Colombo Plan for aid to South and Southeast Asia: power, process and possibilities of the long 1950s
• The Dr B.H. Farmer Seminar: The registration of slaves and resistance in nineteenth century Jaffna
• gloknos Annual Lecture Series in conjunction with the CSAS Seminar Series: In the Bay of Bengal: modelling empire, globe and self
• A scientific life; E.K. Janaki Ammal and the patriarchy of science in the nineteenth and twentieth century
• Contesting courts: Islamic law in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia
• Islamophobia and securitization. Religion, ethnicity and the female voice
• Religious freedom and public order: fundamental-rights lawfare and the construction of majoritarian national identities in Pakistan and Malaysia
• To liberalise or not to liberalise: an analysis of Pakistan's financial sector's role in the economy
• From Grand Tour to Deshbhraman: railways and changing attitudes to travel in colonial India
• Nationalism, development and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka
• Eve's mistakes? Islamic feminism and the pursuit of female religious authority in contemporary India
• Connecting Ottoman Hijaz and British India: intellectual networks and legacy of Imdadullah Makki (d. 1899 AD)
• The people and the making of the Indian Constitution
• TBC
• The Amritsar Massacre 1919-2019: writing the micro-history of a global event
• Koh-i-Noor: violence, law, and the moral politics of colonialism
• British South Asians during wartime and decolonisation
• Intergenerational mobility in post-liberalisation India
• Global Christianity and the transformation of Dalits in Colonial and Postcolonial Kerala
• Shankh-er Shongshar, afterlife everyday: the evening conch, goddesses, and a reimagination of Bengali domesticity
• 1984 and the sacred ends of sovereignty
• Creation and transformation: value and the satisfaction of work
• Ayutthaya in Asian history from the 13th to 18th century
• An African orient? West Africans in World War Two India, 1943-1947
• 'Nobody comes with an empty head': enterprise Hindutva and social media in urban India
• Remembering and forgetting a prince in exile: Myngoon Min in Myanmar and Vietnam
• Global Christianity and the Transformation of the Emotional World of Dalits: A Critical Reading of the Missionary Writings
• Depicting the British abroad. Discontinuities in Johan Zoffany's Tuscan and Indian experience, 1772-1789
• Nature's Sovereignty: The Indus Basin and India's Partition
• Caste, class, and culture in contemporary Nepal
• As caste hierarchies wane: explaining inter-caste violence, accommodations and stalemates in rural India
• The Centre of South Asian Studies Lecture on South Asian Public Affairs: The rule of law and democratic development in Pakistan
• 'A naturally forming harbor?': silt, geological testimony and law in the Bengal Delta
• How does a constable cognize? Notes for a social history of police power in colonial Bengal
• Sikhs and the partition of India: rethinking the Sikh national question, 1940-47
• Plastic history, caste and the government of things in modern India
• An inheritance of loss: private debt to public charity in princely Mysore
• Unknowable God and knowable women: gender of piety in the Mala Poetics of Malabar
• Alternatives to citizenship at the end of empire: princes, subjects and mass migration
• The CSAS Lecture on South Asian Public Affairs: The rule of law and democratic development in Pakistan
• Freedom and Fragmentation; Images of Independence, Decolonisation and Partition from the Centre of South Asian Studies aRchive
• Raj to Republic: Queen Victoria and Indian nationalism, 1901-1947
• On the edge of colonialism: navigating history and commerce in the Asian fiction of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
• Dirty words a historyof swearing and abuse in Tamil
• Hegemony and its discontents: translating Gramsci with Dalit Subalterns
• The Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture: - Thinking religion today with Gandhi
• Thinking religion today with Gandhi
• The inaugural Professor C.A. Bayly Seminar: Visuality and the moral citizen in late socialist Vietnam
• Indian democracy in the 70th year of independence: understanding the 2017 Uttar Pradesh elections. A round-table discussion
• 'Man may plan, but things happen as God wishes': reconstruction and development in pre- and post-independence Sindh
• The Dr Raj Chandavarkar Seminar: - Deep time and the colonial present: a prologue to the history writings of 'Kesari' Balakrishna Pillai
• On writing a population history of india
• Gendered violence in South Asia: the politics of knowledge and practice
• Feeling untouched: space, emotions and untouchability
• Sophia Dobson Collet and the Brahma Samaj: religious cosmopolitanism between nineteenth-century Britain and Bengal
• New Frontiers: Reworking the International History of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands - a round table discussion to be chaired by Professor Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex. Title tbc
• The politics of Shari'a Law: Islamist activists and the state of democratizing Indonesia
• The emergence of the Indian and Chinese economic powerhouses: historical and institutional perspectives
• Fear, Violence, and the Making of British Power in India
• Vectors of Empire: mosquitoes in British India and beyond, 1900-1940
• A new monarchy for a new Commonwealth - monarchy and the consequences of Republican India
• The uniqueness of downtown Yangon
• Far from the Caliph's gaze: being Ahmadi Muslim in the holy city of Qadian
• The Inaugural CSAS Lecture on South Asian Public Affairs - Looking away: inequality, prejudice and indifference in new India
• Bombay and its hinterlands: the economic integration of the Princely States in western India, 1845-1870
• A Sri Lankan evening in conjunction with the University Language Centre
• On the Indian origins of Nationalism
• Entrepreneurs and superheroes: relational ambiguity in a Bangladesh social enterprise
• Britain's Anglo-Indians: the invisibility of assimilation
• K.C. Banerjee, 'world tourist': radical internationalism in late-colonial Asia
• Between bazaar logics and the commodity fetish: notes on Trademark Law in Colonial India
• Princely education in India in the age of colonialism: the education of Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda, 1875-81
• Khomeini's perplexed Pakistani men: importing and debating the Iranian Revolution
• South Asia's minorities - rough road to citizenship!
• 'We may learn much from them as well as teach': 1857, revolutionary contagion and British critics of Empire
• 'Produce or perish'. The crisis of the late 1940s and the place of labour in postcolonial India
• The Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture - Three scenes from rural life: Cambridge to Colombo and back again, 1954 to 2016
• Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture, 2015-16: Three scenes from rural life: Cambridge to Colombo and back again, 1954 to 2016
• Tolerance in Islamic thought: South Asian innovations
• Hidden Citizens: Space, place and rights in India and Pakistan, 1947-1952
• Hierarch, democracy and political responsibility in northern india
• Mail Models: Knowledge Practices and Postal Standardisation in Nineteenth-Century India
• Film screenting - Quarter 4/11
• Looking into 'Indian' pasts: archaeology, histories and ways of seeing
• THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS K C Banerjee, 'world-tourist': radical internationalism in late-colonial Asia
• The water of Delhi: pre-colonial modernity in Urdu poetry
• Hindu nationalist training camps and the Indian diaspora
• Consolidating a State: Pakistan's integration of the Princely States, 1947-56
• The Indian village: from Marx to Modi
• The fugitive sojourns of Gurdit Singh, 1914-1922
• Seed and nation: understanding divergent political responses to GMOs in Southeas Asia
• National wealth or national poverty? Economic statistics, citizenship and the emergence of Indian democracy
• SAARC and regional trade integration: a political economy perspective
• Documentary film Screeing of 'An ordinary election'
• Middle-income trap or uneven and dependent inclusion in the East Asian Productive order? the case of Vietnam AND Factory work, dormitory regimes and the making of a transient workforce under FDI-led industrialization in Vietnam: the case of Thang Long Ind
• Constituting environmental modernity: time, place, perspective, power and politics in Bhutan
• Intimate voices of empire: women and letter writing in eighteenth century India
• Old conflicts and new frontiers: the historic origins of the challenge to connectivity in Myanmar's borderlands
• Intimate violence: age of consent controversies in colonial Bengal
• The colonial hajj from India and Malaya
• The political in question: abolitionism in India's twentieth century
• The natural wealth of nations: ecology and agriculture in nineteenth century Tamilnad
• Parallel publics: an Indian history of democracy
• New Buddhist Nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar
• Imagining India, decolonising l'Inde francaise, 1947-1954
• Ambedkar in his time and ours
• The fragile Himalayas
• Urdu migrant literati and Lahore's culture
• Translating cultures of service in the diaspora: devotion as social action in the BrAsian city
• Transfigured Landscape: The Spectre of Kashmir and Bombay Cinema
• Rethinking (South) Asian Studies: Spaces and Inter-linkages
• The 2015 Delhi Elections: what do they tell us about Indian democracy?
• The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State.
• Benares Beginnings: Print modernity, book entrepreneurs and cross-cultural ventures in a colonial metropolis.
• India's development cooperation: managing transitions, opportunities, challenges and uncertainties in the decade ahead
• A Muslim Conspiracy in Colonial South India: Wahhabis in the Deccan, 1830-40
• Rebuilding Lives, Redefining Spaces: Women in Post Colonial Delhi, 1947-1980
• Public Space and the Demand for Recognition: Lawful and Unlawful Assembly and the ‘Conditions of Listening’ in Indian History
• Imperial empiricism and the decline of the Raj: Caste, religion and official anthropology in the early twentieth century
• Murder at London Zoo: Race, Masculinity and Empire
• Being the change: the Aam Aadmi Party and the politics of curative democracy
• Rewriting the bureaucratic colonial imagination in the preparation for India's first elections
• The Republic of India: between hope and despair
• From untouched to untouchable: the history and politics of naming
• India today and the politics of happiness
• Indian citizenship: a century of disagreement
• The World Before Her: a film by Nisha Pahuja
• Crossing the Bay of Bengal: the rise & decline of a South Asian region
• 'Birth 1871' a film screening to be followed by a Q and A session
• Blood Earth Project; screening of award-winning short film followed by spoken word and discussion with Taru Dalmia
• Intimate violence: age of consent controversies in the age of Nationalism
• Taming Babel: the Colonial and Postcolonial trials of multilingual Malaya
• Science not culture: South India in global concept history
• 'Eastminster' - State-building in Asia in the aftermath of Empire
• Suppressing 'the gift of Krishna': India, piracy and the littoral politics of Empire
• Unpopular justice: law and the inexpediency of culture in north India
• Translating the 'Exact' and the 'Positive' sciences: fin-de-siecle reflections on the sciences of India, 1890-1910
• Nostalgic pasts, nostalgic futures: poetry, politics and north Indian Muslim identity, 1850-1950
• Film screening: Where the clouds end
• The sacrificial self: recasting renunciation in South Asia
• Pakistan's unpredictable political scene: an informative talk
• Pakistan's Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Shafqat Mahmood, visits Cambridge University
• Rethinking colonial violence
• Development and basic democracy: the state and the governed in Ayub's Pakistan
• German expatriate art historians and the writing of Indian art history
• Trading worlds: Afghan merchants across modern frontiers
• The most relaxing way to fly: women, PIA and the making of 'modern' Pakistan
• Citizenship and the idea of the Muslim minority in postcolonial South India: anxieties of belonging in Hyderabad
• Food for Votes? Comparing Welfare Politics in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh
• Global history from an Islamic angle
• White Van Stories: a film screening in the presence of the Director, Leena Manimekalai
• The cinema in Lahore, c. 1919-1947
• The Murderous Outrages Act and the Colonial Rule of Law in Punjab, 1867-1920
• Conceptualising Asia's postcolonial Cold War
• Transcending frontiers: the dynamics of religious leadership in northern India during the nineteenth century
• On rivers of wind: Lila Majumdar, Indian children's literature, and utopia
• Artists as film-makers - three Indian artists
• Some reflections on the intellectual legacyof Shaheed Bhagat Singh (1925-1931)
• Public opinion and the twenty-point programme during the Indian Emergency, 1975-77
• Raj Niti vs Dharma Niti in colonial North India: some perspectives on the Hindu Widows Right of Maintenance Bill of 1933
• Dirty labour, filthy caste: corporation scavengers in colonial Calcutta
• Sacred and secular sounds: Qwaali in Pakistan
• Reason and religion: debates in colonial India
• A conversation with Shabana Azmi (actor, activist and parliamentarian) and Javed Akhtar (screenwriter, lyricist, activist and parliamentarian)
• Military labour and the Company state in India, 1780-1830