Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars

Professor Ajay Skaria - 'Thinking religion with Gandhi today'

The 43rd annual Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture was delivered by Professor Ajay Skaria, of the...

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Dr Taylor Sherman - Was postcolonial India ever socialist? Ideas, policy and practice, 1947-64

Dr Sherman, of the London School of Economics, examines one of the pillars of Nehruvian India:...

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Dr Michael Buehler - The politics of Shari'a law: Islamist activists and the state in democratising Indonesia

Dr Buehler, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, introduces a legal and constitutional...

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Professor Raj Brown - The emergence of the Indian and Chinese economic powerhouses: historical and institutional pers...

Professor Brown, of Royal Holloway, University of London, examines empirical and historical data...

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Dr Mark Condos - Fear, violence, and the making of British power in India

Dr Condos, of Queen Mary, University of London, investigates the representations of colonial...

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Professor Su Su - The uniqueness of downtown Yangon

Professor Su from Mandalay Technological University and a Charles Wallace Burma Trust Visiting...

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Harsh Mander: Looking away: inequality, prejudice and indifference in new India.

Activist and writer Harsh Mander delivers the inaugural Centre of South Asian Studies Lecture on...

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Dr Rochelle Almeida (New York University) - Britain's Anglo-Indians: the invisibility of assimilation

Dr Almeida introduces the topic of her forthcoming book about Anglo-Indians in Britain and the...

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Dr Sajjad Hassan - 'South Asia’s Minorities – Rough road to citizenship'

Dr Hassan, of the Centre for Equity Studies - Missal, New Delhi, investigates the challenges...

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Professor Ravi Ahuja - "Produce or perish”. The crisis of the late 1940s and the place of labour in postcoloni...

A major strike movement emerged in India soon after the end of the Second World War extending...

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Professor Jonathan Spencer - Three scenes from rural life: Cambridge to Colombo and back again, 1954 to 2016

In the 1950s a small group of researchers initiated a conversation, fuelled by bouts of intense...

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Dr Humeira Iqtidar - Tolerance in Islamic thought: South Asian innovations

Dr Iqtidar introduces her work into piety and liberalisation in Islamic thought among migrant...

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Dr Sudeshna Guha - Looking into 'Indian' pasts: archeology, history and ways of seeing

Histories of heritage, legacies and traditions provide many examples of the manner in which...

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Professor Laurent Gayer - Peacecraft: living with religious diversity in Amroha, India

Professor Gayer of CNRS/CERI - Sciences Po, Paris, examines cases in which communities in Indian...

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Professor Edward Simpson - The Indian village: from Marx to Modi

Professor Simpson, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, relates the findings of his...

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Professor Rosalind O'Hanlon - Intimate voices of empire: women and letter writing in eighteenth century India

The Dr B.H. Farmer Seminar. Professor O'Hanlon examines the letters written in India by women in...

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Dr John Zavos: 'Translating cultures of service in the diaspora: devotion as social action in the BrAsian city'

This paper explores the transformation of ideas of devotional service and charity in the context...

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Dr Anjali Bhardwaj-Datta: Rebuilding lives, redefining spaces: women in post colonial Delhi, 1947-1980

Dr Bhardwaj-Datta (University of Cambridge) investigates Delhi's gendered spaces and how they...

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Behroze Gandhy - 'Artists as film-makers - three Indian artists'

Behroze Gandhy, independent film-maker and critic, presents a discussion and screening of films...

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