The Dr Raj Chandavarkar Seminar - Global Islam: what is it and where did it come from?

The seminar will be followed by a reception in the Bateman Room at Caius at which all are welcome

Professor Nile Green (UCLA).

The Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 17:00-18:00

Reconstructing the Palembang royal library

Dr Mulaika Hijjas (SOAS).

Seminar Room SG1, ground floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 17:00-18:00

Beyond religion in India and Pakistan: gender and caste, borders and boundaries

Professor Navtej Purewal (SOAS) & Professor Virinder Kalra (Warwick).

Seminar Room SG1, ground floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 17:00-18:00

Complicating the narrative of ‘Islamic architecture’: looking across rooted cosmopolitanisms in maritime South India and Southeast Asia, 18th to early 20th centuries

Dr Imran bin Tajudeen (Oxford & National University of Singapore).

Seminar Room SG1, ground floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 17:00-18:00

Contested collections: museums in the Punjab princely states, 1947-1957

Mrinalini Venkateswaran (Cambridge).

Seminar Room SG1, ground floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 17:00-18:00

The enabling powers of authoritarian coercion: state forms of Islam at work in Brunei and Singapore

Professor Dominik Műller (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Seminar Room SG1, ground floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 17:00-18:00

Mao-lana Bhashani in Mao’s China: Islamic socialism and subaltern internationalism in Asia

Dr Layli Uddin (KCL).

Seminar Room SG1, ground floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 17:00-18:00

Towards a religious internationalism? The Indian Khilafat Movement in interwar Europe

Dr Faridah Zaman (Oxford).

Seminar Room SG1, ground floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 17:00-18:00

Mayalee Dancing Girl, the East India Company, and the Sambhar Salt Lake Affair 1835-42

Dr Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College, London).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 17:00-18:00

Contemporary Sri Lankan Anglophone writing

Dr Ruvani Ranasinha (King's College, London).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:00

Literary activism in Cold War India: the short story, the magazine and the world

The Gordon Johnson Seminar

Professor Francesca Orsini (SOAS).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

From the courtroom to the courtyard - the public life of personal law in post-independence India

Dr Saumya Saxena (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

The travails of a migrating concept - art in the crossfire between the 'religious' and the 'aesthetic'

Professor Monica Juneja (Heidelberg).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

Exhibiting South Asia: panel discussion

Dr Mark Elliot (Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge),Dr Devika Singh (Tate Modern) & Mrinalini Venkateswaran (Museum Consultant, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Trust and PhD candidate, Cambridge).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

White noise, séances and colonial linguistics

Professor Javed Majeed (King’s College London).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 17:00-18:00

The Economics of Religion in India

Dr Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 17:00-18:00

A historian as petitioner: Ghulam Husain Khan Tabataba’i and the late Mughal context for colonial state-formation in eighteenth century India

The Professor C.A. Bayly Seminar

Professor Robert Travers (Cornell University).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 17:00-18:00

Rethinking the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

A joint event with the World History Seminar

Dr Elisabeth Leake (University of Leeds).

Room 5, Cripps Court, Magdalene College (Chesterton Road).

Thursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-18:00

Jugaad Innovation: the implications for South Asia

Professor Jaideep Prabhu (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 17:00-18:00

Benoy Kumar Sarkar – interwar internationalism, geopolitics, totalitarianism

Luna Sabastian (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 17:00-18:00

Love as understanding: marriage, aspiration and the joint family in middle-class Pakistan

Dr Ammara Maqsood(UCL).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Moor “culture” in independent Ceylon: the 1940s establishment of the Moors Islamic Cultural Home

Dr Farzana Haniffa (University of Colombo & Smuts Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

The work of art in the age of digital reproduction: history, violence, self and

Dr Mishka Sinha.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

The Colombo Plan for aid to South and Southeast Asia: power, process and possibilities of the long 1950s

Dr David Lowe (Deakin University & Smuts Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

The Dr B.H. Farmer Seminar: The registration of slaves and resistance in nineteenth century Jaffna

Professor Nira Wickramasinghe (University of Leiden).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

A scientific life; E.K. Janaki Ammal and the patriarchy of science in the nineteenth and twentieth century

Professor Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

Contesting courts: Islamic law in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia

Dr Ali Altaf Mian, Seattle University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Islamophobia and securitization. Religion, ethnicity and the female voice

Dr Tania Saeed, Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Religious freedom and public order: fundamental-rights lawfare and the construction of majoritarian national identities in Pakistan and Malaysia

Dr Matthew Nelson, SOAS.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

To liberalise or not to liberalise: an analysis of Pakistan's financial sector's role in the economy

Dr Natalya Naqvia, LSE.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

From Grand Tour to Deshbhraman: railways and changing attitudes to travel in colonial India

Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Nationalism, development and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka

Dr Rajesh Venugopal, LSE.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Eve's mistakes? Islamic feminism and the pursuit of female religious authority in contemporary India

The Dr Gordon Johnson Seminar

Professor Justin Jones, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Connecting Ottoman Hijaz and British India: intellectual networks and legacy of Imdadullah Makki (d. 1899 AD)

Dr Moin Nizami, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

The people and the making of the Indian Constitution

Dr Ornit Shani, University of Haifa.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

TBC

Professor Tanika Sarkar (Jawaharlal Nehru University).

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 17:00-18:00

The Amritsar Massacre 1919-2019: writing the micro-history of a global event

Dr Kim Wagner (Queen Mary, University of London).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 17:00-18:00

British South Asians during wartime and decolonisation

Dr Yasmin Khan (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Intergenerational mobility in post-liberalisation India

Please note this seminar takes place on a Thursday in Room S1, 1st floor of the ARB

Professor Vegard Iversen (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad).

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Shankh-er Shongshar, afterlife everyday: the evening conch, goddesses, and a reimagination of Bengali domesticity

Dr Sukanya Sarbadhikary (Presidency University).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

1984 and the sacred ends of sovereignty

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday in room SG2, ground floor of the ARB

Dr Shruti Kapila, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 07 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Creation and transformation: value and the satisfaction of work

Dr Andrew Sanchez (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Ayutthaya in Asian history from the 13th to 18th century

Professor Chris Baker and Professor Pasuk Phongpaichet (Chulalongkorn University).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 17:00-18:00

An African orient? West Africans in World War Two India, 1943-1947

Dr Oliver Coates (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

'Nobody comes with an empty head': enterprise Hindutva and social media in urban India

Professor Dr Sahana Udupa (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Remembering and forgetting a prince in exile: Myngoon Min in Myanmar and Vietnam

Dr Natasha Pairaudeau (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 17:00-18:00

Global Christianity and the Transformation of the Emotional World of Dalits: A Critical Reading of the Missionary Writings

Dr P. Sanal Mohan (Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala and Smuts Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 17:00-18:00

Depicting the British abroad. Discontinuities in Johan Zoffany's Tuscan and Indian experience, 1772-1789

Seminar co-hosted by CSAS and the Early Modern World History Seminar

Dr Arundhati Vermani and Dr Jean Boutier, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 17:00-18:00

Nature's Sovereignty: The Indus Basin and India's Partition

Seminar co-organised with Critical Pakistan

Professor David Gilmartin, NC State University.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 05 December 2017, 17:00-18:00

Caste, class, and culture in contemporary Nepal

Professor David Gellner, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

As caste hierarchies wane: explaining inter-caste violence, accommodations and stalemates in rural India

Professor James Manor, School of Advanced Study, Universit of London.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

'A naturally forming harbor?': silt, geological testimony and law in the Bengal Delta

Dr Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

How does a constable cognize? Notes for a social history of police power in colonial Bengal

Dr Partha Pratim Shil, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

Sikhs and the partition of India: rethinking the Sikh national question, 1940-47

Professor Gurharpal Singh, SOAS.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Plastic history, caste and the government of things in modern India

Dr Sarah Hodges, University of Warwick.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

An inheritance of loss: private debt to public charity in princely Mysore

Professor Janaki Nair, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Unknowable God and knowable women: gender of piety in the Mala Poetics of Malabar

Dr Yasser Arafath Pothukandiyil, Dr L.M. Singhvi Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 09 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Alternatives to citizenship at the end of empire: princes, subjects and mass migration

Professor Joya Chatterji, Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies and Professor of South Asian History, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Raj to Republic: Queen Victoria and Indian nationalism, 1901-1947

Professor Miles Taylor, University of York.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 17:00-18:00

On the edge of colonialism: navigating history and commerce in the Asian fiction of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

Dr Andrew Francis, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 17:00-18:00

Dirty words a historyof swearing and abuse in Tamil

Professor A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Madras Institute of Development Studies.

Seminar Room S1, first floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 05 June 2017, 17:00-18:00

Hegemony and its discontents: translating Gramsci with Dalit Subalterns

Dr Karin Kapadia, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

The Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture: - Thinking religion today with Gandhi

The Lecture will be followed by a reception in the Blue Boar Common Room, Trinity College

Professor Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota.

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

The inaugural Professor C.A. Bayly Seminar: Visuality and the moral citizen in late socialist Vietnam

Professor Susan Bayly, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

Indian democracy in the 70th year of independence: understanding the 2017 Uttar Pradesh elections. A round-table discussion

Dr Manali Desai, University of Cambridge; Sagnik Dutta, University of Cambridge; Dr Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Ashoka University; Dr Raphael Susewind, King's College London and Dr Philippa Williams, Queen Mary Uniersity of London.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

'Man may plan, but things happen as God wishes': reconstruction and development in pre- and post-independence Sindh

Professor Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

The Dr Raj Chandavarkar Seminar: - Deep time and the colonial present: a prologue to the history writings of 'Kesari' Balakrishna Pillai

Professor Dilip Menon, University of the Witwatersrand.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 17:00-18:00

On writing a population history of india

Professor Timother Dyson, London School of Economics.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Gendered violence in South Asia: the politics of knowledge and practice

Dr Manali Desai, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Feeling untouched: space, emotions and untouchability

Dr Jesus Chairez, University of Leeds.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Sophia Dobson Collet and the Brahma Samaj: religious cosmopolitanism between nineteenth-century Britain and Bengal

PROFESSOR cLARE mIDGLEY, sHEFFIELD hALLAM uNIVERSITY.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

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

Dr Elisabeth Leake, University of Leeds; Dr Martin Bayly, London School of Economics and Professor Magnus Marsden , University of Sussex.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

The politics of Shari'a Law: Islamist activists and the state of democratizing Indonesia

Dr Michael Buehler, School of Oriental and African Studies.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

The emergence of the Indian and Chinese economic powerhouses: historical and institutional perspectives

Professor Raj Brown, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 17:00-18:00

Fear, Violence, and the Making of British Power in India

Dr Mark Condos, Queen Mary University of London.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 17:00-18:00

Vectors of Empire: mosquitoes in British India and beyond, 1900-1940

Dr Rohan Deb Roy, University of Reading.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

A new monarchy for a new Commonwealth - monarchy and the consequences of Republican India

Dr Harshan Kumarasingham, The Max Planck Institute.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

The uniqueness of downtown Yangon

Professor Su Su, Charles Wallace Burma Trust Visiting Fellow, CSAS and Department of Architecutre, Mandalay Technological University.

Seminar Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:30-18:30

Far from the Caliph's gaze: being Ahmadi Muslim in the holy city of Qadian

Dr Nick Evans, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Bombay and its hinterlands: the economic integration of the Princely States in western India, 1845-1870

Dr Kate Boehme, University of Sussex.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

A Sri Lankan evening in conjunction with the University Language Centre

Dr Sujit Sivasundarm, Dr Shailaja Fennell, Jocelyn Wyburd, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

On the Indian origins of Nationalism

Dr Norbert Peabody, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Entrepreneurs and superheroes: relational ambiguity in a Bangladesh social enterprise

Dr Juli Huang, London School of Economics.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Britain's Anglo-Indians: the invisibility of assimilation

Dr Rochelle Almeida, New York University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

K.C. Banerjee, 'world tourist': radical internationalism in late-colonial Asia

Professor Tim Harper, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Between bazaar logics and the commodity fetish: notes on Trademark Law in Colonial India

Note: this seminar is on a Monday in Seminar Room S2

Professor Arvind Rajagopal, New York University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 06 June 2016, 17:00-18:00

Princely education in India in the age of colonialism: the education of Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda, 1875-81

Teresa Segura Garcia, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 01 June 2016, 17:00-18:00

Khomeini's perplexed Pakistani men: importing and debating the Iranian Revolution

Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

South Asia's minorities - rough road to citizenship!

Dr Sajjad Hassan, Centre for Equity Studies - Misaal, New Delhi.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

'We may learn much from them as well as teach': 1857, revolutionary contagion and British critics of Empire

Dr Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

'Produce or perish'. The crisis of the late 1940s and the place of labour in postcolonial India

This is the Dr Raj Chandavarkar Seminar

Professor Ravi Ahuja, University of Gottingen.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

Tolerance in Islamic thought: South Asian innovations

Dr Humeira Iqtidar, King's College London.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 17:00-18:00

Hierarch, democracy and political responsibility in northern india

Dr Anastasia Piliavsky, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

Mail Models: Knowledge Practices and Postal Standardisation in Nineteenth-Century India

Devyani Gupta, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 07 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

Looking into 'Indian' pasts: archaeology, histories and ways of seeing

Dr Sudeshna Guha, Shiv Nadar University , India.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS K C Banerjee, 'world-tourist': radical internationalism in late-colonial Asia

This is the Gordon Johnson Seminar

Dr Tim Harper, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

The water of Delhi: pre-colonial modernity in Urdu poetry

Professor Ruth Vanita, University of Montana.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

The space of the mohalla: from Congress to communal geographies in the interwar Delhi

Dr Stephen Legg, University of Nottingham.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Hindu nationalist training camps and the Indian diaspora

Edward Anderson, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Consolidating a State: Pakistan's integration of the Princely States, 1947-56

Dr Yaqoob Khan Bangash, Information Technology University, Lahore.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

The Indian village: from Marx to Modi

Professor Edward Simpson, School of Oriental and African Studies.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

The fugitive sojourns of Gurdit Singh, 1914-1922

Professor Renisa Mawani, University of British Columbia.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 17:00-18:00

Seed and nation: understanding divergent political responses to GMOs in Southeas Asia

Dr Tomas Larsson, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

National wealth or national poverty? Economic statistics, citizenship and the emergence of Indian democracy

Dr Eleanor Newbigin, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

SAARC and regional trade integration: a political economy perspective

Dr Khalid Ahmed, Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust Visiting Fellow and Sukkur Institute of Business Administration.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

2 speakers with 2 separate titles. To be chaired by Dr Tim Harper

Professor Pietro Masina, University of Naples AND Dr Michela Cerimele, University of Naples.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Constituting environmental modernity: time, place, perspective, power and politics in Bhutan

Dr Riamsara Knapp, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Intimate voices of empire: women and letter writing in eighteenth century India

The Dr B.H. Farmer Seminar

Professor Rosland O'Hanlon, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Old conflicts and new frontiers: the historic origins of the challenge to connectivity in Myanmar's borderlands

Professor Robert Anderson, Simon Fraser University and Martin Smith, Senior Advisor to the Transnational Institute.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 07 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Intimate violence: age of consent controversies in colonial Bengal

Professor Tanika Sarkar, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 29 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

The colonial hajj from India and Malaya

Dr John Slight, St John's College, Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

The natural wealth of nations: ecology and agriculture in nineteenth century Tamilnad

The inaugural Dr Raj Chandavarkar Seminar

Professor Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston College.

Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

New Buddhist Nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar

Dr Matthew Walton, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Imagining India, decolonising l'Inde francaise, 1947-1954

Dr Akhila Yechury, University of St Andrews.

Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Ambedkar in his time and ours

Dr Anupama Rao, Columbia University.

Seminar Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Urdu migrant literati and Lahore's culture

Dr Tahir Kamran, Allama Iqbal Fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 17:00-18:00

Translating cultures of service in the diaspora: devotion as social action in the BrAsian city

Dr John Zavos, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 17:00-18:00

Transfigured Landscape: The Spectre of Kashmir and Bombay Cinema

Professor Shohini Ghosh, AJK Mass Communication Research Center, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

Rethinking (South) Asian Studies: Spaces and Inter-linkages

The inaugural Dr Gordon Johnson Seminar

Professor Willem van Schendel, University of Amsterdam.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State.

Dr Iza Hussin, Department of POLIS, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Benares Beginnings: Print modernity, book entrepreneurs and cross-cultural ventures in a colonial metropolis.

Professor Ulrike Stark, University of Chicago.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

India's development cooperation: managing transitions, opportunities, challenges and uncertainties in the decade ahead

Dr Emma Mawdsley, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

A Muslim Conspiracy in Colonial South India: Wahhabis in the Deccan, 1830-40

Professor Chandra Mallampalli, Westmond College.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Rebuilding Lives, Redefining Spaces: Women in Post Colonial Delhi, 1947-1980

Anjali Bhardwaj-Datta, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Public Space and the Demand for Recognition: Lawful and Unlawful Assembly and the ‘Conditions of Listening’ in Indian History

Professor Lisa Mitchell, Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge and University of Pennsylvania.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Imperial empiricism and the decline of the Raj: Caste, religion and official anthropology in the early twentieth century

Professor Chris Fuller, London School of Economics.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Murder at London Zoo: Race, Masculinity and Empire

Dr Jonathan Saha, University of Bristol.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 17:00-18:00

Being the change: the Aam Aadmi Party and the politics of curative democracy

Professor Srirupa Roy, Professor of State and Democracy in Modern India, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Rewriting the bureaucratic colonial imagination in the preparation for India's first elections

Dr Ornit Shani, St John's College, Cambridge and Haifa University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

The Republic of India: between hope and despair

Professor Deepak Nayyar.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

From untouched to untouchable: the history and politics of naming

Dr Ramnariyan Rawat, Smuts Fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

India today and the politics of happiness

Professor Veronique Bénéï, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Indian citizenship: a century of disagreement

Professor Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Crossing the Bay of Bengal: the rise & decline of a South Asian region

This is the inaugural Dr B.H. Farmer Seminar

Professor Sunil Amrith, Birkbeck, University of London.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

'Birth 1871' a film screening to be followed by a Q and A session

Prof William Gould, University of Leeds and Dakxinkumar Bajrange.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 08 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Intimate violence: age of consent controversies in the age of Nationalism

Professor Tanika Sarkar, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Taming Babel: the Colonial and Postcolonial trials of multilingual Malaya

Dr Rachel Leow, Faculty of History.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Science not culture: South India in global concept history

Dr David Washbrook, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Suppressing 'the gift of Krishna': India, piracy and the littoral politics of Empire

Dr Simon Layton, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Unpopular justice: law and the inexpediency of culture in north India

Dr Kriti Kapila, King's College London.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Translating the 'Exact' and the 'Positive' sciences: fin-de-siecle reflections on the sciences of India, 1890-1910

Professor Dhruv Raina, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Nostalgic pasts, nostalgic futures: poetry, politics and north Indian Muslim identity, 1850-1950

Ali Khan, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 17:00-18:00

Film screening: Where the clouds end

Wanphrang Diengdoh.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 17:00-18:00

The sacrificial self: recasting renunciation in South Asia

The Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture

Professor Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Thursday 17 April 2014, 17:00-18:00

Rethinking colonial violence

Dr Deana Heath, University of Liverpool.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

Development and basic democracy: the state and the governed in Ayub's Pakistan

Dr Markus Daeschel, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

German expatriate art historians and the writing of Indian art history

Dr Devika Singh, Centre of South Asian Studies.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Trading worlds: Afghan merchants across modern frontiers

Professor Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

The most relaxing way to fly: women, PIA and the making of 'modern' Pakistan

Dr Pippa Virdee, De Montfort University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Citizenship and the idea of the Muslim minority in postcolonial South India: anxieties of belonging in Hyderabad

Dr Taylor Sherman, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Food for Votes? Comparing Welfare Politics in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh

Louise Tillin (King's College London).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Global history from an Islamic angle

Francis Robinson (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

The cinema in Lahore, c. 1919-1947

Nasreen Rehman (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

The Murderous Outrages Act and the Colonial Rule of Law in Punjab, 1867-1920

Mark Condos (Wolfson College, Cambridge).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

'Houses of justice': Islamic courts and legal forum-shopping in twentieth-century India

Justin Jones (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

The 'Tropical Dominions' - the appeal of Dominion Status in the decolonisation of India, Pakistan and Ceylon

Harshan Kumurasingham (University of Potsdam).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Conceptualising Asia's postcolonial Cold War

Heonik Kwon (Trinity College, Cambridge).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Long-distance nationalism and the legitimation of political violence: Shyamji Krishnavarma's 'Scientific terrorism'

Professor Harald Fischer Tine (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 09 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Film screening: 'Red Ant Dream', followed by Q & A session with the Director

Note: this event is on a Tuesday in Room SG2 (not on a Wednesday as is normal for the South Asian Seminar series)

Sanjay Kak, Director.

Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Tuesday 01 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Transcending frontiers: the dynamics of religious leadership in northern India during the nineteenth century

Dr Moin Nizami, International Islamist University of Malaysia.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

On rivers of wind: Lila Majumdar, Indian children's literature, and utopia

Dr Barnita Bagchi, Utrecht University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Artists as film-makers - three Indian artists

Behroze Gandhy (film-maker and critic).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Some reflections on the intellectual legacyof Shaheed Bhagat Singh (1925-1931)

Professor Irfan S. Habib (NUEPA, New Delhi).

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Public opinion and the twenty-point programme during the Indian Emergency, 1975-77

Patrick Clibbens, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 17:00-18:00

Raj Niti vs Dharma Niti in colonial North India: some perspectives on the Hindu Widows Right of Maintenance Bill of 1933

Dr Jyoti Atwal, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Tuesday 23 April 2013, 17:00-18:00

Dirty labour, filthy caste: corporation scavengers in colonial Calcutta

Professor Tanika Sarkar, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Sacred and secular sounds: Qwaali in Pakistan

Dr Virinder Kalra, Manchester University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Reason and religion: debates in colonial India

Professor Deepak Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Military labour and the Company state in India, 1780-1830

Mesrob Vartavarian, Robinson College Cambridge.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Geographies of post trafficking in Nepal

Prof Nina Laurie, University of Newcastle.

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 17:00-18:00