Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

'Questions of Decolonisation'

Adam Branch, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks

Reflections from African Activists on Human Rights and Transitional Justice

Gacheke Gachihi, Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) in Nairobi, Kenya and Abdinasir Yusuf , Peace and Development Resource Centre in Garowe, Somalia .

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

Monday 28 May 2018, 13:00-15:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

'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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

'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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

'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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks

'On the Ethics and Politics of Decolonization in South Africa' - Co-hosted with the CRASSH Decolonizing the Curriculum Group

Professor Xolela Mangcu University of Cape Town.

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

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 12:00-14:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

'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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

'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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

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