Centre of South Asian Studies
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Ali Khan - 'Nostalgic pasts, nostalgic futures: poetry, politics and North Indian Muslim identity, 1850-1950'
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Ali Khan, of the Faculty of History, investigates Muslim identity, society and politics through the Urdu-language poetry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Mon 12 May 2014
Asma Jahangir (Human Rights Lawyer and activist) - The rule of law and democratic development in Pakistan
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Ms Jahangir delivered the annual Centre of South Asian Studies Lecture on South Asian Public Affairs.
Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Thu 22 Feb 2018
Behroze Gandhy - 'Artists as film-makers - three Indian artists'
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Behroze Gandhy, independent film-maker and critic, presents a discussion and screening of films by three Indian artists: M.F. Hussain, Tyeb Mehta and Akbar Padamsee. The sections...
Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Mon 13 May 2013
Dr Ammara Maqsood - 'Love as understanding: marriage, aspiration and the joint family in middle-class Pakistan'.
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Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Fri 26 Apr 2019
Dr Anjali Bhardwaj-Datta: Rebuilding lives, redefining spaces: women in post colonial Delhi, 1947-1980
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Dr Bhardwaj-Datta (University of Cambridge) investigates Delhi's gendered spaces and how they were reordered by the aftermath of Partition, looking at how social space was...
Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Wed 4 Feb 2015
Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay - From Grand Tour to Deshbhraman: railways and changing attitudes to travel in colonial India
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Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Mon 5 Nov 2018
Dr Arundhati Virmani and Dr Jean Boutier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Social, Marseille) - Depicting the...
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Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Fri 13 Apr 2018
Dr Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel University) - '"A naturally forming harbor?": silt, geological testimony and law in...
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Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Tue 10 Apr 2018
Dr Farzana Haniffa - 'Moor "culture" in independent Ceylon: the 1940s establishment of the Moors Islamic Cultural Home'
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Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Tue 12 Mar 2019
Dr Harshan Kumarasingham, 'The "Tropical Dominions" - the appeal of Dominion status in the decolonisation of India,...
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Dr Kumarasingham presented a paper detailing the different discussions between the British government and the soon-to-be-independent South Asian colonies, and how practical...
Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Thu 24 Oct 2013
Dr Humeira Iqtidar - Tolerance in Islamic thought: South Asian innovations
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Dr Iqtidar introduces her work into piety and liberalisation in Islamic thought among migrant populations from the Tribal Areas of Pakistan.
Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Thu 28 Apr 2016
Dr John Zavos: 'Translating cultures of service in the diaspora: devotion as social action in the BrAsian city'
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Dr Zavos, University of Manchester, explores the transformation of ideas of devotional service and charity in the context of diasporic identity formation amongst South Asian...
Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Tue 28 Apr 2015
Dr Justin Jones - '"Houses of justice": Islamic courts and legal forum-shopping in twentieth-century India'
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Justin Jones discusses the role of Islamic courts in the 1920s and 1930s, examining the ways in which the courts maintained their relevance and influence in the face of the...
Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Wed 6 Nov 2013
Dr Katherine Butler Schofield - Mayalee Dancing Girl, the East india Company, and the Sambhar Salt Lake 1835-42
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Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Thu 21 Nov 2019
Dr Kriti Kapila - 'Unpopular justice: law and the inexpediency of culture in north India'
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Dr Kriti Kapila presented a paper detailing the often complex relationship between the legal system and popular culture in North India
Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Mon 2 Jun 2014
Dr Layli Uddin - Mao-lana Bhashani in Mao's China: Islamic socialism and subaltern internationalism in Asia
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Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Thu 13 Feb 2020
Dr Louise Tillin - Food for Votes? Comparing Welfare Politics in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh
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Louise Tillin, from King's College, London, examines the relationship between politics and the provision of welfare in two Indian states.
Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Mon 27 Jan 2014
Dr Mark Condos - Fear, violence, and the making of British power in India
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Dr Condos, of Queen Mary, University of London, investigates the representations of colonial British character. He argues that the commonly presented traits of stoicism and...
Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Mon 23 Jan 2017
Dr Mark Elliot (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) and Mrinalini Venkataswaran (University of Cambridge) -...
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Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Thu 10 Oct 2019
Dr Markus Daechsel -
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Dr Markus Daechsel of Royal Holloway, London, investigates urban development work in Pakistan in the 1950s and 1960s.
Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies
Created: Tue 11 Mar 2014