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

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 17 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 23 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 4 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 18 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 12 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 9 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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