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- Nayanika Mathur’s Research on the Indian state, law, and bureaucracy
- Barbara Harriss-White contributes to article in the Guardian "Buzzwords and tortuous impact studies won't fix a broken aid system"
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Michaelmas Term Week 1: How India became democratic (Ornit Shani, Haifa University)
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Michaelmas Term Week 2: India’s new Indian Ocean vision: Outward syncretization, inward Hinduization? (Kate Sullivan de Estrada, CSASP)
- Public Lecture: Irrigation in India: Building farms of the future
- Faraha Nawaz
- Congratulations to our first cohort of graduating MSc Modern South Asian Studies students
- Punjab Research Group Conference - Saturday 29 October
- Application Deadlines Released
- Talk: The Innovative Parallel
- Professor Nayanika Mathur gives public lecture at Bristol University
- Nayanika Mathur: Book Launch: 'Who are 'we'? Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology'
- Modern South Asia seminar: term card for Michaelmas term 2018
- CANCELLED Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Michaelmas Term Week 3: Sri Lanka In and Out of South Asia (Mick Moore, Brighton)
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Michaelmas Term Week 4: The problem of origins in Early Modern Eurasian empires (Ali Anooshahr)
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Michaelmas Term Week 5: The Political anthropology of India (Anastasia Piliavsky, Cambridge)
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Michaelmas Term Week 6: Marketing Muslims: Islam in the Bazaars of Modern South Asia (Ali Altaf Mian, Seattle)
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Michaelmas Term Week 7: West Africans in World War 2 India (Oliver Coates, Cambridge)
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Michaelmas Term Week 8: Hierarchy and Imperialism in Late Colonial Indian International Thought (Martin Bayly, LSE)
- South Asian Political Thought (SAPT) Discussion Group: MT18 Week 3: Constitutional Morality: An Approach to Constitutional Interpretation
- South Asian Political Thought (SAPT) Discussion Group: MT18 Week 4: Justice as Righteous Duty: Notes from an Islamic Feminist Movement in Contemporary India
- South Asian Political Thought (SAPT) Discussion Group: MT18 Week 6: Friends, Enemies and 'Dirty Politics': Studying Petty Politicking on the Workfloor
- South Asian Political Thought (SAPT) Discussion Group: MT18 Week 7: A Social Epistemology of Mob Lynchings in India
- South Asian Political Thought (SAPT) Discussion Group: MT18 Week 8: ‘Living for the Future’: On Maoists, Christian Converts, and Irregular Migrants - Hopelessness, Temporality, and ‘Existential Mobility’ in Rural Nepal
- Book Launch: The Progressive Revolution: A Modern Art for a New India
- Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture: The Fate of Pakistan: three ways in which things really could go wrong and reasons for hope they may not
- Why India-Pakistan-China Cooperation is Imperative for Peace and Prosperity in South Asia
- Panel Discussion: Legal Empowerment of Women: Rethinking gender equality in law - ways towards the legal empowerment of women
- Film screening: A Tongue Untied - the story of Dakhani
- Moushumi Bhowmik: Talk: Migration, Memory and Music: field recordings from Bengal and the diaspora
- Moushumi Bhowmik: Lecture-recital: Songs old and new from Bengal
- Barbara Harriss-White: Full list of publications
- Anarchist Diplomacy (Carne Ross, Independent Diplomat)
- Marconi Lecture by Medha Saxena: Imperial Wave: How Empire Shaped the Network of Wireless in South Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century
- Is the particularity of ethical problems addressed by Indian Philosophy?
- Film screening and discussion: Kusum
- ODID Seminar Series: The Social Life of Work MT18 Week 3: Ethical disregard among Indian migrant workers in a Chinese trade economy
- ODID Seminar Series: The Social Life of Work MT18 Week 6: Skill, work and gendered identity in contemporary India: The business of delivering home-cooked food for domestic consumption
- OxCIS Event: The Political Economy of Climate Change: Challenges for Muslim Societies and the World
- OxCIS Event: Faith in the Commonwealth (Lecture by the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commowealth)
- ESC Event: Hindu Muslim Relations: What Europe Might Learn from India
- Seminar CANCELLED (Tuesday 23 October)
- SARC Event: Text and Textiles: Approaches to Material Past in South Asia
- Public lecture by Professor Gyan Prakash (Princeton University): Freedom Behind Bars: Indira Gandhi’s Emergency
- Academic and Royal Launch for Oxford’s ASEAN Institute Campaign
- Nishad Sanzagiri wins Barbara Harriss-White MSc thesis prize
- Look Back in Anger: Visuality and Violence in Contemporary Women’s Movement in India
- Thirty-fifth International Conference of the Punjab Research Group Theme: Past, Present and Future
- SARC Event: From Orientalisation to Securitisation: Pashtun History and Politics in some Contemporary Perspectives
- SALDG Event: MT18 Wk 4: Introduction to 'Transformative Constitution'
- Professor Matthew McCartney: sabbatical research activities
- CSASP, Oxford - Lahore School of Economics Exchange 2018
- SAPT Event MT18 Wk 4: Change of venue and time
- Statement on Behaviour
- Oxford Islamic Society Event: the Plight of the Uyghur Muslims
- How Lives Change: Seven Decades of a North Indian Village, Palanpur (Himanshu)
- Professor Matthew McCartney to speak at European Parliament
- Call for abstracts: Urban Frontiers Workshop (Oxford, 8-10 April, 2019) - deadline extended to 25 January
- Film screening: Dheepan
- Conference on Caste in South Asia and its Diasporas (Monday 4 July 2016)
- Kathiravan Muthu Wins 2016 Barbara Harriss-White Prize
- Bhavya Bishnoi Earns Oxford Blue for Cricketing Success
- New DPhil in Area Studies Launched at Oxford
- Forthcoming book: Dalit Women: Vanguard of an alternative politics
- Seminar at Oslo University on Tuesday 6 September by Karin Kapadia
- Job Opportunity: Austin Peay State University seeks Assistant Professor in the History of South Asia
- Shahana Munazir (MSc CI alumna from 2013-14) co-authors published article
- Job Opportunity at Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- St Cross College Graduate Admissions Open Day
- Malangs South Asia Essay Prize 2016 Winner: Garima Jaju
- MSc Contemporary India Students enjoy SIAS welcome party
- Ashmolean Study Visit October 2016
- Call for papers: BASAS conference April 2017
- CSASP graduate Jai Bhatia publishes paper in Economic and Political Weekly
- Documentary Screening - 24 October
- MSc Contemporary India Students' Diwali celebrations
- Dr Hugh Brammer publishes new work on environment and development
- Kate Sullivan de Estrada: The Myth of India's Non-Aligned Boycott
- George Kunnath speaks in a debate on caste discrimination at the House of Commons
- White Rose South Asia Network: Inaugural Graduate Workshop (Call for Papers)
- Demonetisation Event (25 November)
- Leverhulme Trust Early-Career Fellowships 2017
- Interest sought for potential panel on History and Politics of Labour and Welfare in India at BASAS
- The Hindu reports on Caste debate in Parliament
- Matthew McCartney to speak at conference on Globalising India and Asia at the University of Warsaw on Friday 9 December
- Marconi Lecture on Thursday 8 November CHANGE OF TIME
- Ganges, The Many Pasts of an Indian River
- CSASP Event: The Political Crisis in Sri Lanka
- Ethnographic empire: knowledge and power in colonial northeast India, 1870-1940
- Special issue of International Affairs on India’s Rise at 70
- Barbara Harriss-White interviewed about demonetisation by the Madras Courier
- GIGA reports on ‘India’s Rise at 70’ launch (Friday 13 January)
- Chatham House launches audio of ‘India’s Rise at 70’ event (Thursday 12 January)
- CSASP Polish Exchange 2016
- Applications invited for CSASP DPhil/MPhil Exchange with Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan
- Kate Sullivan de Estrada edits the virtual special issue India's odyssey through International Affairs
- Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC journalist and CSASP Associate, speaks to MSc Contemporary India students
- Newton International Fellowships 2017
- South Asia Masters Oxford-Cambridge Exchange
- Dr Janey Messina joins SIAS
- Associate Professorship in the Anthropology of South Asia
- Inaugural FCO South Asia Study Day at Wolfson College (Wed 8 February)
- SIAS Careers Day
- Panel Event: Status Seeking in World Politics: India, Russia and China in Comparative Perspective
- SIAS Careers Day (Tuesday 14 March)
- CSASP welcomes back Yash Gandhi, MSc CI alumnus now working with the Government of India
- Associate Professorship in the International Relations of South Asia
- Call for papers: Re-configuring power: looking back at the decades around independence
- Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF-2017 - SIAS Internal Selection process
- Graduation 2016
- Barbara Harriss-White's latest publications
- Kate Sullivan de Estrada to appear on Radio 4's 'Start the Week'
- China’s Stance on NSG Membership Shows the Extent of India’s Challenge in the Global Nuclear Order
- Nayanika Mathur appointed new Associate Professor of Anthropology of South Asia
- Barbara Harriss-White contributes chapter to new book on 'The Future of Indian Universities'
- Barbara Harriss-White's latest article published in the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
- Ashmolean Exhibition: Old Traditions, New Visions: Art in India and Pakistan after 1947
- Nayanika Mathur wins the American Ethnological Society's (AES) Sharon Stephens Prize
- An Exhibition of Photographs – Lives on the Move
- CSASP/LSE Exchange 2017
- SIAS/FCO East Asia Dialogue
- Read the first review of Rising India: Status and Power by Rajesh Basrur and Kate Sullivan de Estrada
- CSASP Alumnus breaks Indian National Record
- SIAS Winter Newsletter
- ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018 (SIAS Deadline: 22nd Feb 2018 – University Deadline 23rd March 2018)
- Newton International Fellowship 2018 (SIAS Deadline: 1st March 2018)
- The Robin & Nadine Wells Scholarship
- Publication of 'Indian Capitalism in Development' (edited by Barbara Harriss-White and Judith Heyer)
- Call for Papers: 4th International Sufi Conference 2018 "Sufi Heritage: Counterculture Narrative and Peacebuilding in the Era of Globalisation" (April 13-14 2018, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan)
- Call for Applications: CSASP, Oxford/Lahore School of Economics Exchange 2018
- Obituary: Asma Jahangir (1952-2018): An icon of democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Pakistan
- Call for Papers: Graduate Workshop New Directions in Studies of Pakistan: Politics, Culture,
- Lahore School of Economics: 14th International Conference on Management of the Pakistan Economy
- Interview with Professor Nayanika Mathur about her prize-winning book, Paper Tiger
- Article by Shriya Misra (MSc Contemporary India alumna 2014)
- Oxford-Warsaw Exchange 2018 (Part 1)
- Barbara Harriss-White speaks at international conference on Marx and Marxism in Patna, India
- New book co-edited by Professor Mathur published
- South Asia Seminar: Of Nomadology and India(n-ness)
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Becoming Global Hindus: Hindu Nationalist Training Camps and the Indian Diaspora
- South Asia Seminar: A Zionist Passage to India?
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India
- South Asia Seminar: Defending British India Against Napoleon: The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto (1807-13)
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: The Emergence of the Informal Sector: Labour Law and Politics in South India, 1940-1970
- ‘Punjab: Past, Present, Future’ : Punjab Research Group Conference, 2016
- South Asia Seminar: Re-building Democracy: Parekh on Indian nationalism and the common good
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Emerging Trends in Journalism in South Asia: The New Face of News Reporting in Pakistan’s 2013 Elections
- South Asia Seminar: Eastminster - Decolonisation and State Building in British Asia
- MEC Arab Film Season: Film Screening "Gaheem fel Hend"
- Idea Room at the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development
- MEC Arab Film Season: Film Screening "Gaheem fel Hend"
- MEC Arab Film Season: Seminar "Gaheem fel Hend"
- South Asia Seminar: Feminine Abandon and the abducted Woman in post-Partition Shorey Comedies
- Wolfson SARC Event: Subverting the social question: India in comparative perspective
- Wolfson SARC Event: The challenges of universalising social policy: India in comparative perspective
- Book talk: Looking away: Indifference, prejudice and inequality in the new India
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Subnational Welfare Capitalism: Regime Clusters and Social Policy in India
- South Asia Seminar: Feeling Untouched: Space, Emotions and Untouchability
- Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture 2016: 'The Koh-i-Noor: the real jewel in the crown'
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Relative Misfortune? The Socioeconomic Consequences of Cousin Marriage in Pakistan
- Panel discussion: Demonetisation
- Workshop: The Interface of Domestic and International Factors in India's Foreign Policy
- South Asia Seminar: Pakistan and Ireland: Exploring Comparative Constitutional Perspectives on Decolonisation, Dominion Status, and Beyond
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Re-reading the Emergency: Harold Wilson, Gerald Ford and India’s Constitutional Autocracy, 1975
- India’s Rise at 70 – Foreign Policy under Modi
- South Asia Seminar: Directive Principles and the Expressive Accommodation of Ideological Dissenters in the Indian Constitution
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: Revisiting The Concept of Adivasi Autonomy
- South Asia Seminar: Britain's Anglo-Indians:The Invisibility of Assimilation
- Weinrebe Lecture Series: Writing World Lives: 'How to Write a World Life'
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Living without the IMF: Can Pakistan succeed?
- South Asia Political Thought Discussion Group: Revisiting the origins of Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India
- South Asia Seminar: The Colloquy between Muhammad and Saytān: The Eighteenth-Century Bangla Iblichnāmā of Garībullā
- India Ideas Room: 'Sex and the City; gender and urbanisation' and 'Rising Agrarian Crisis in Punjab'
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Fragmented Transitions: Growth, Mobility and Democracy in India
- South Asia Seminar: Postgraduate Student Presentations on South Asian History
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Aspiration, Desire and the Joint Family in Pakistan
- Utsav: A celebration of Indian cultural arts
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: The Spiral of Violence: Maoists, Adivasis and Development in India
- South Asia Seminar: Postgraduate Student Presentations on South Asian History
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Conferencing the International: Making India in London during the Round Table Conferences 1930-
- South Asia Seminar: Hindu Militarism, P.D. Tandon and the Politics of Scale in 1940s Uttar Pradesh
- Lecture: Art as a Protest Device in Pakistan
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Unfixed Land: Studying India from the ground up
- South Asia Seminar: A Dreadful Scourge: Comprehending Cholera in Early Nineteenth Century India
- Panel Discussion: On the Margins of Justice: Gender, Power and Non-State Justice in India and Pakistan
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Gujarat 2002 in the Making of India's Metropolitan Dream
- South Asia Seminar: Witness to Paradise: Photojournalism in Kashmir's Present, 1986-2016
- Documentary Screening: Waseb (Nation), 2015
- South Asia Seminar: The Unmaking of an Imperial Army: The Indian Army in World War II
- Warsaw-Krakow-Oxford Joint Conference
- Contemporary South Asia Seminar: Queer, Leaking and Unruly Bodies: Hindu Right-Wing Women and the Discursive Performance of Viol
- Warsaw-Krakow-Oxford Joint Conference
- Panel Event: Status Seeking in World Politics: India, Russia and China in Comparative Perspective
- SIAS Careers Day
- South Asia Research Cluster Seminar: Everyday Conversions
- Lecture: The Forts and Palaces of Jodhpur, India
- South Asia Seminar Series: An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the 19th Century
- Wolfson SARC presents: India’s Rubbish: urban activism, state power and public space
- Play screening: Dara
- ISCA Departmental Seminar: Women in India's Waste Economy
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group Seminar: A Theory of Unfixed Land
- South Asia Day: Commemorating 70 years of India's Independence with a Seminar on the theme Re-configuring power: looking back at the decades around independence
- Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan to Play at Sheldonian
- Explaining Sub-optimal Outcomes in Indian Foreign and Security Policy
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: The Age of Fasad: Jihad, Piety and Liturical Islam in the Indian Ocean (1500-1750)
- Find Us
- Conference: The Art of Independence: Visions of the Past and Future in India and Pakistan
- Lecture: The Indian Story: Past, Present and Future
- Conference: The Art of Independence: Visions of the Past and Future in India and Pakistan
- Civil Resistance: The Originality of Gandhi
- Book launch: India's Economy at 70: A life and review (Y. V. Reddy)
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: India's Search for Prosperity: Is Modi on the right track?
- Seminar Programme: Wolfson South Asia Research Cluster (SARC) Occasional Lecture: Book launch: India's Economic Growth: From Boom to Bust and Back Again?
- The Safraz Pakistan Lecture: Rule of Law and Democratic Development in Pakistan
- Discovering Sikhism (the 2017 series): Sikhs and Gender
- Free Film Screening: 'Court' with an introduction by Mayur Suresh
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Sepia Paise: The Politics and Poetics of Art and Photography in South Asia and Beyond
- Punjabs@70 Punjab Research Group Conference
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: MT17 Wk 4: Globalization & Labour Reforms: The Politics of Interest Groups and Partisan Governments in India
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Parallel Governance and the Indo-Naga Ceasefire: Evidence from Ukhrul
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: Uneven and Splintering Development of Indian Cities: Rethinking Partha Chatterjee's Postcolonial Political Society
- OUPakSoc presents: An Emerging Market or a Brewing Storm: Pakistan: A conversation with Miftah Ismail
- Book Launch: The Three Regularities in Development: Growth, Jobs and Macro Policy in Developing Countries
- Creating and Entertaining a Community: Meters, Melody, Staging, and Messages in the Sāṅgīt Theatre Traditions of Northern India
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: The Sweatshop Regime: Garments, Exploitation and labouring Bodies made in India
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: The Communalism and Secular Nationalism of Lala Lajpat Rai
- Private View: Lives on the Move
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Tracing Conscience in Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka 1960s to 2000s
- RISJ Seminar: India and China: Strangers across the Border
- Film Showing: Forest of Bliss
- CSASP/SARC Special Event: Omar Abdullah: Kashmir, India and the Future
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: What is South Asia?
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: The British High Commission in Pakistan 1947-65
- Talk: The Swang, Bhagat and Nautanki forms of traditional Indian theatre
- Book Launch: Research for Action: A Conversation with Jean Drèze
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: The Nation and its Queers
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: The Political Economy of Business-State Deals in Indian States
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Subaltern Counter-Publics: Dalits and Missionary Christianity in Kerala
- Acting President's Seminar: What counts as evidence in the Social Sciences?
- Panel discussion: Gandhi's Inspiration
- Tribal Tales of India Retold: The life, work, and legacy of Verrier Elwin (1902-1964)
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: HT18 Wk 2: The Task of the Climate Translator
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: The Rohingya Exodus: Orchestrated Violence and Strategies of Survival
- Modern Israel Studies Seminar: Israel: India's Looking Glass
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: HT18 Wk 3: Economic Refugees and the Hermeneutical Duty of the Global South
- OUPakSoc Speaker Series: Mohammad Iqbal - Father of Mashal Khan
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Violence, Rents and Investment: Explaining Growth Divergence in South Asia
- Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series: Week 3 Rabindranath Tagore
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: HT18 Wk 4: Neoliberalism and the Transforming Left in India
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Querying the Cosmopolitan in Sri Lankan and Indian Ocean History
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture: The Persistent Rural and Declining Agriculture: Revisiting the Indian Village in 21st Century
- Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series: Week 4 Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: HT18 Wk 5: Political Islam and the State in India - Testing the Moderation Thesis
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Ambivalence, Ambiguity and Alienation: Making Sense of 'Tension' in North India
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture: Is India Becoming a Post-Caste Society?
- Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series: Week 5 Jawaharlal Nehru
- Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence, and Deviance
- SARC Event: Unionisation in the Madras Presidency: the Independence decades
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: HT18 Wk 6: Indian Democracy and Democracy As Such
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal
- Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminar: Explaining Political Order and Disorder in Pakistan's Northwest
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture: Dalit Predicaments: Mobility, Mobilisations and Dilemmas of Identity
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: HT18 Wk 7: Ten Years After: What is Left of Maoist 'Revolution' in Nepal
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Money, Enticements, Modernity: Indian Elite Women between Anxiety and Privilege
- South Asian Political Thought Discussion Group: HT18 Wk 8: Indian Democracy and Democracy As Such
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Farmers Matter in New India but not the Same Way: Political Settlement, Discontinuous Agrarian Policy and Class-Formations
- SALDG Event: Proselytisation and Religious Freedom in Bangladesh
- The return of the adibasi: the multiple worlds of Jaipal Singh Munda
- Current Trends in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy: "The Indian State is Nothing but a Paper Tiger" - for an anthropology of the bureaucratic state
- The Pakistan-China Corridor: Impacts on Regional Stability
- Graduate Workshop: New Directions in Studies of Pakistan: Politics, Culture, & History
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Harem Histories and Princely Politics: Tipu Sultan, the Family and East India Company Rule
- State Capacity: Reflections on India
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Economic Mobility, Islamic Piety and Caste: Ashrafization in Pakistani Punjab
- Quli - Prince of Hearts
- Mobile citizens, portable rights: Social and political inclusion of internal migrants
- Anthropology Departmental Seminar: A petition to kill: efficacious appeals against big cats in India
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Globalisation, Public Policy and Labour
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Peopling Policy Processes? Methodological Populism in the Bangladesh Health and Education Sectors
- Nissan Seminar: A one-day conference on Compressed Development in Asia and Beyond
- Talk: Why I Am a Hindu
- Liberty, Equality and Alienation
- Book launch of Dr Indrajit Roy’s “Politics of the Poor: Negotiating Democracy in Contemporary India”
- SARC Event: Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India
- Perspectives on history, historiography and politics
- South Asia Anthropologists Group conference: 'Struggles for Autonomy'
- ODID Event: The Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh: A Case of “Subhuman”
- Nayanika Mathur to speak at CRASSH conference: Conspiracy and Democracy: History, Political Theory and the Internet
- Pakistan Society event: Urdu Poetry and Story-telling
- 'Challenges of Compression'
- Special Event - Astor Lecture: Is There a Global History of Humanitarianism?
- Punjab Research Group Conference, held at St Antony’s College on 27 October 2018
- OSGA’s Kate Sullivan de Estrada delivers expert testimony to the Global Britain and India Inquiry
- Professor Nayanika Mathur to give lecture at University of Texas at Austin
- Talk by Chairman Stan Shih on Si-nnovation Island
- Oxford Brookes Business School: Sustainability implications of spatial shift in global capitalism: An eco-socialist perspective
- South Asia Society Event: Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Culture
- OICSD Newsletter published
- Two Distinguished Public Lectures on Bhutan's Democracy and Development
- International Society for Bhutan Studies: launch conference
- New ASC podcast: Professor Gyan Prakash's public lecture on Indira Gandhi's emergency
- Visiting Fellowship for Pakistan Offers Mutual Benefits
- Vacancies
- CSASP Christmas Closure
- CANCELLED: MSAS seminar: HT19: Week 1: Speculations on Infrastructure: from colonial public works to global asset class on the Indian Railways 1840-2017 (Laura Bear, LSE)
- Sandra Baernreuther
- MSAS seminar: HT19: Week 2: The Cast(e) of the Colonial Police: Constables and Chaukidars in Colonial Bengal (Partha Shil, Trinity College, Cambridge)
- MSAS seminar: HT19: Week 3: The Economics of Religion in India (Sriya Iyer, Cambridge)
- MSAS Seminar: HT19: Week 4: Unfixed Land and the making of Contemporary India (Nikita Sud, ODID)
- MSAS seminar: HT19: Week 5: Connected Histories? Arabia, India and the Architecture of Medieval Ethiopia (Finbarr Barry Flood, NYU)
- MSAS seminar: HT19: Week 6: What’s the Party Like? The Normative Status of the Political Party in South Asia (Udit Bhatia, Oxford)
- MSAS Seminar: HT19: Week 7: Continuity in mind: Imagination and migration on India and the Gulf (Thomas Chambers, Brookes)
- MSAS Seminar: HT19: Week 8: Before the Nation-State: Christian Internationalism and the Inter-War Years (Sneha Krishnan, Geography)
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar term card for Hilary term 2019 published
- The Double-Edged Sword
- Reuters Institute Event: India's Social Media Elections
- Film screening: Muzaffarnagar Baaqi hai
- MSAS Seminar: HT19 Week 1: CANCELLED
- OCGH seminar: Redefining the Caliphate: Indian pan-Islamism in the early twentieth century
- IR Research Colloquium: Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
- Professor Singh gives talk to Chinese delegation at Rewley House
- ODID-OSGA Indian Elections Workshop I: Politics in the run-up to Indian elections 2019
- SALDG Event: Papers by Dr Tarunabh Khaitan and Udit Bhatia
- AHRC International Placement Scheme now has opportunities at the National Museum of India
- SAPT discussion group: The Cult of the Boss
- Reuters Memorial Lecture: What Lies Ahead for the Media in India?
- Reuters Institute Event: Digital rebranding of legacy media - reviving the Madras Courier
- Oxford Climate Society and OICSD joint event: Climate's Holy Trinity
- CSASP/ASC Event: Nuclearization of the Indian Ocean - Implications for South Asia
- Visiting fellowship programme to advance academic and public discourse on Pakistan
- Cross-Cutting Cleavages and Communal Riots in India
- New ASC podcast: The Political Crisis in Sri Lanka
- (Re)-constructing the state: rebuilding government schools in post-earthquake Nepal
- Pritam Singh publishes article on the upcoming Indian elections
- Shahana Munazir, alumna 2013-14, selected as Fellow at the Delhi Chief Minister’s Urban Leadership Fellows Programme
- SAPT Discussion Group HT19 Week 4: New Universals? Challenges in Decolonizing Political Theory
- 'Britain Needs A New Mindset' - India expert gives evidence to House of Lords inquiry
- Professionals in Politics: Explaining the Rise of Political Consulting Firms in India
- ASC/OIS Event: The Young and The Restless: Youth and Politics in India
- Change of Venue for Modern South Asian Seminars from Week 6 of Hilary term
- Professor Pritam Singh to appear on television tonight
- SARC Event: Faith and Feminism in Pakistan: Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy
- Akshay Mangla
- Sino-Indian Connections: New Perspectives on 20th century Conflicts
- Barbara Harriss-White latest publication
- SARC Event: The Miracles of Pollywood
- Oxford South Asian Society Event: Round table discussion with Mr Prithviraj Chaven (former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, India)
- Professor Mathur to co-convene a workshop on 'The People's State' at the University of Copenhagen, 18-19 March 2019
- 'The People's State': Rethinking Popular Politics in the early Twenty-First Century
- PRG Conference 30 March 2019
- CSASP alumnus, Raghu Karnad, wins prestigious Windham-Campbell prize
- Recent publications by alumna, Maryam Aslany, and Professor Barbara Harriss-White
- Nayanika Mathur publishes editorial in The Wire
- Nayanika Mathur: book launch in Egypt
- Jean Drèze's book 'Sense and Solidarity' made available online for free by OUP
- Article by CSASP alumna and Oxford DPhil student, Deepa Kurup, published in Frontline
- MSAS Seminar: TT19: Week 1: Fundamental Rights Lawfare: Religious Freedom and Public Order in Pakistan and Malaysia
- MSAS Seminar: TT19: Week 2: Commodities, Merchants, and Refugees: Inter-Asian circulations and Afghan mobility
- MSAS Seminar: TT19: Week 3: Single in the City: Women, Migration and Domestic Work in India
- MSAS Seminar: TT19: Week 4: The Paradox of Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism
- Professor Nayanika Mathur to give keynote address at Princeton South Asia conference
- Professor Pritam Singh speaks at Yale
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar programme: Term card published for Trinity term 2019
- Pritam Singh to give keynote at International Punjabi Conference at University of Sargodha, Pakistan
- Book Launch: In their Own Words, Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba
- **CANCELLED** Yogendra Yadav on the 2019 Indian Elections: Defending India's Swadharma: Republic versus the Public?
- Deepa Kurup publishes article on the Indian elections and farm crisis
- India Urbanising: Spaces of Capital, Politics of Place and Urban Informality as a Mode of Frontier Rule
- Kate Sullivan de Estrada visits Indian Ocean Commission HQ as Oxford Policy Exchange Network Fellow
- Rangoonwala Visiting Fellowships now open for applications
- Seminar on Pakistan: TT19: Week 2: Small Towns and the Middle Class: Migration, Mobility and Status Seeking in Pakistani Punjab
- Seminar on Pakistan: TT19: Week 3: Between Collaboration and Confrontation: Judicial-Military Interactions in Pakistan
- Seminar on Pakistan: TT19: Week 5: The Challenges to Liberal Democratic Order in South Asia: Democracy Redefined
- Seminar on Pakistan: TT19: Week 6: The Parliament of Pakistan: Institution-building and (un)Democratic Practices, 1971-77
- Barbara Harriss-White archives
- Nayanika Mathur to give public lecture at LSE
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2019: Mughul Kingship and oaths of peace (sulh) in Islam
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2019: Mughul Kingship and oaths of peace (sulh) in Islam
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2019: Mughul Kingship and oaths of peace (sulh) in Islam
- OSGA/CSASP Careers Event 2019
- SAPT seminar: TT19: Week 4: Interrogating Communalism: Violence, Citizenship and Minorities in South India
- SAPT seminar: TT19: Week 5: Shari‘ah Courts and the Many Rooms of Justice: Reflections on Religion, Law and Adjudication in Contemporary India
- TORCH Event: India’s Tipping Point? The 2019 Elections and the Modi Landslide
- Many Lives of Land
- Professor Nayanika Mathur publishes op-ed on 'man-eating' tigress
- Pritam Singh article on Indian election
- Rethinking Pakistan book launch
- Poetry in motion - spoken word and hip-hop performances
- SAPT seminar: TT19: Week 6: Authoritarianism in India: The Postcolonial Settlement and the Coming of the Emergency
- The Business and Practice of Journalism: Social media, protest and press freedom in Sri Lanka
- CSASP welcomes colleagues from Warsaw University for annual exchange
- SAPT seminar: TT19: Week 7: Islamic Authority in the Modern World
- Ameya Pratap Singh
- Tingxi Ma
- DPhil Students
- David Gellner co-authors article on the electoral success of Modi's BJP in Eastern Uttar Pradesh
- Professor Pritam Singh gives keynote address at 4th Canadian Punjabi Conference
- Barbara Harriss-White MPhil Thesis Prize Winners 2019
- Education, State and Society in South Asia
- Mental Health in India - Bridging the Gap
- Beyond the Picture: Calligraphy and the Arts of the Book in Sultanate India
- Barbara Harriss-White visits new archive at Ashoka University
- Pakistan’s Best Kept Secret – Lahore Museum
- Gandhi at 150
- Subaltern Geographies: Critical Perspectives
- Karuna Dietrich Wielenga publishes article
- India’s New Neighbourhood Policy: Security, Connectivity and Democracy
- SALDG Event: Constitutional and Civil Liberties Violations in Kashmir
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: MT19: Week 1: Cultural Practices and Child Health in Pakistan
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: MT19: Week 2: Tribal land and alienation and Adivasi movement for autonomy in India and Bangladesh
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: MT19: Week 4: Nationalism, Development, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: MT19: Week 7: Gandhi's Spell on the Bollywood Hero
- Seminar Series: The Social Life of Work: Narrow Fairways: Getting By and Falling Behind in the New India
- OICSD/Oxford Climate Society Event: Can Endless Economic Growth Ever be Green?
- Launch of the new International Multimodal Communication Centre (IMCC)
- Climate Crisis Thinking in the humanities and social sciences: network launch
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: MT19: Week 3: Centralisation and nationalism in the making of Indian capitalism
- Barbara Harriss-White Thesis Prize Winners (MSc Modern South Asian Studies)
- Modern South Asian Studies Students Celebrate Diwali
- Bayaan: Storytelling for social impact
- Modern Challenges for the Rule of Law
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: MT19: Week 6: Towards a Religious Internationalism? The Indian Khilafat Movement in Interwar Europe
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: MT19: Week 5: Gandhi @150: Rethinking India’s Non-Violent Revolutionary
- Keynote Talk: Issues in Public Health
- SARC Event: The Wild East: Criminal Political Economics in South Asia
- Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Pakistani Women on the Frontlines
- SARC Event: Book launch: New Perspectives on Pakistan’s Political Economy
- Matthew McCartney's book launches (Oxford and London)
- Dr Rahul Rao: What do we mean when we talk about statues?
- SARC Event: Writing Capital
- OSGA Global Forum: 50 Years of Dependency and Development: Challenges and Risks to Democracy Then and Now
- Professor Nayanika Mathur to give keynote speech at the British Animal Studies Network conference in Leeds this Saturday
- GCRF India-Oxford Initiative ODA thematic workshops call
- Global Populism – 50 Years After
- SAME Seminar: Aspiring for elsewhere: education, migration and mobility in rural Chattisgarh
- Uma Pradhan co-edits special section in the Journal of South Asian Studies
- 50 Years of Dependency and Development: Global Perspectives
- A discussion on solidarities between UCU strike and South Asian student movements
- SARC Book Launch: The Indian Economy by Matthew McCartney
- CSASP Christmas Closure 2019
- Recognised Students
- Modern South Asian Studies - Apply now!
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: HT20: Week 1: Capitalism in the Himalaya
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: HT20: Week 3: Arms, Arts and Agriculture: Indo-Mexican Intellectual Connections in the Early Twentieth Century
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: HT20: Week 4: ‘For a better future’: Education and unstable future-making in Nepal
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: HT20: Week 5: A millenarian sultan and a teacher to the world: New directions in early modern Indo-Muslim kingship
- CANCELLED Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: HT20: Week 6: Highways to the end of the World: Roads, Road-Builders and Architecture of Power in South Asia
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: HT20: Week 7: Rangoonwala Fellows Research Forum
- The Future of Area Studies Roundtable
- SARC Book Launch: Salvation In Indian Philosophy (Ionut Moise)
- Nayanika Mathur interviewed on Jeremy Vine Show
- No Modern South Asian Studies seminar on Tuesday 28 January
- Oxford-India Initiative (Ind-Ox) Launch
- SARC Event: Chronic Illness in a Pakistani Labour Diaspora
- Dr Uma Pradhan wins two research grants
- OICSD Event: Women Global Thinkers: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- Film screening: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
- Professor Nayanika Mathur writes an afterword to a special issue on the anthropology of bureaucracy in Social Anthropology journal
- OICSD Event: Nationalism and its discontents: excluded and stateless in Modi’s India
- Event CANCELLED: Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Week 6
- Professor Nayanika Mathur writes an op-ed on the emergent state form in Uttar Pradesh, India for The Wire
- SARC Event: Hindu-Muslim Relations: What Europe might learn from India
- ODID Special Lecture: The Asian Miracle: Learning from a Half-century of Development
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2020: The Timeliness of Ancient India
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2020: The Timeliness of Ancient India
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2020: The Timeliness of Ancient India
- CLIMATE CRISIS THINKING IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
- CANCELLED: SARC Book Event: Poetry of Belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950
- Turning Potatoes into Gold: How WhatsApp and ‘Fake News’ help India’s Modi stay on top
- SARC Online Event (TODAY): India’s Informal Economy: Implications for Climate Change
- India's new observer status with the Indian Ocean Commission
- No MSAS Seminars in Trinity Term 2020
- Karuna Dietrich Wielenga publishes article in 'The Wire'
- Professor Nayanika Mathur on telling the story of the pandemic
- South Asia from Afar
- Cyclone Amphan: Living through the Climate Crisis
- Professor Nayanika Mathur on the Rhodes Must Fall protests
- Barbara Harriss-White publishes article in "The Wire"
- South Asia from Afar
- Performance and Power in Delhi
- South Asia from Afar session 1 podcast now available
- Online photograph marks the end of a strange academic year
- Professor Polly O'Hanlon elected a British Academy Fellow
- OICSD Event: Diluting Green Protection: Environmental Politics in India during COVID-19
- South Asia from Afar session 2 podcast now available
- New Research Project website launched: Education.Southasia
- South Asia from Afar 3
- Culture and Society of contemporary India
- Stolen Works, Stolen Lives: Racial Erasure, Exclusion and Dispossession in Academic Publishing
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 1/13
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 2/13
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 3/13
- South Asia from Afar 4
- Maryam Aslany's new book published
- Karuna Dietrich Wielenga publishes article in The Caravan
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT20: Week 1: Global histories of hierarchy? Reflections from India on caste, race and the Black Lives Matter movement
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT20: Week 2: Pandemic as event: thinking modern Indian society through a crisis
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT20: Week 3: “Chai – why?” The making of the Indian “national drink”
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT20: Week 4: Domestic audience costs and foreign policy making in India: Recent shifts in the BJP's strategy
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT20: Week 5: Rajput Loyalties in the Mughal Age
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT20: Week 6: Domestic Devotion: Jain Wooden House Shrines from Gujarat in American Museum Collections
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT20: Week 7: 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
- Unstable Archives presents: Digital Archives in South Asian Studies: Towards Decolonisation
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar to go online in Michaelmas term 2020
- IndOx Inaugural Webinar
- Professor Mallica Kumbera Landrus features in latest 'Object, Story, Wonder' video produced by the Bagri Foundation
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 4/13
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 5/13
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 6/13
- Oxford Centre for Global History: Legacies of Colonialism: Escaping the Global Event: India, Islam and the Great War
- Performance and Power in Delhi: podcast now available
- Contingency, Futurity, and Ethics: Photographic ethnographies from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh
- The Globally Familiar: Mediating masculinities in Delhi, India
- Looking back; Moving forwards: the history of Black Lives Matter (BLM)
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 7/13
- Oxford India Centre event: India's Agrarian Economy: Farm Bills, COVID-19 & Climate Change
- Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: Beastly Identification: conservationist legal regimes and documents in the government of big cats in India
- Classes of Labour: work and life in a central Indian steel town
- Governing the Urban in China and India
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 8/13
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 9/13
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 10/13
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 11/13
- Through Wind and Ice: Communicating the Climate Crisis
- Sarfraz Lecture 2020: The Politics of Propriety: Feminist Actions, Culture & Cultural Rights in Pakistan
- Oxford Climate Research Network Showcase
- Peripatetic Lives
- IndOx Webinar: South Asian Philanthropy and the Arts
- 74 Years of Partition: panel event
- South Asian Political Thought discussion group: MT20: Week 6: Cosmopolitics of Memory: Pathalgadi Movement in Jharkhand
- South Asian Political Thought discussion group: MT20: Week 7: The Pluralism of Place: India and the Muslim World in the Political Thought of Abul Kalam Azad
- South Asian Political Thought discussion group: MT20: Week 8: Towards Party Constitutionalism: On Freedom of Speech within Political Parties
- Professor Imre Bangha publishes article in 'The Wire'
- Selected Modern South Asian Studies seminars from Michaelmas term now available as podcasts
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 13/13
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 12/13
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar HT21 Wk 1: Kalki and the Mahdi: The Twenty-Four Avatars of the Dasam Granth
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar HT21 Wk 2: State Highway 31: A road trip through the heart of modern India
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar HT21 Wk 3: A Contrapuntal History of Hindustan
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar HT21 Wk 4: Delusional states: Love, Citizenship and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar HT21 Wk 5: Encountering Kabir: From Old Manuscripts to Living Oral Traditions
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar HT21 Wk 6: Communist Internationalism and Decolonization in South Asia
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar HT21 Wk 7: The Play of the Guru: Braj Historical Poetry in Early Modern Punjab
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar Winter 2021 1/11
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar Winter 2021 2/11
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar Winter 2021 3/11
- SAIH Seminar: HT21 Wk 1: Nation and Its Discontents: The Poetics and Politics of Siraiki Nationalism in Pakistan
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar programme for Hilary term 2021
- SAIH Seminar: HT21 Wk 2: Gandhian Satyagraha in the Mirror of Marxism
- Refugees, minority citizens and the law: Sindh’s deterritorialised partition
- Oxford Minds Lecture - Power: how does it work in the global economy?
- David Washbrook (1948-2021)
- SAIH Seminar: HT21 Wk 3: The Making of "Veer Savarkar": Methods for Writing an Intellectual History
- SAIH Seminar: HT21 Wk 4: The Curious Career of Shunya: Politics and Metaphysics of Caste Thinking in India
- SAIH Seminar: HT21 Wk 5: Bedil’s Bisemic Ghazal Poetics
- SAIH Seminar: HT21 Wk 6: On Violence or the Civil War of 1947 and the Importance of Indian Political Thought
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar Winter 2021 4/11
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar Winter 2021 5/11
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar Winter 2021 6/11
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar Winter 2021 7/11
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar Winter 2021 8/11
- The India-Oxford Initiative Webinar - by Prof. Sanjay Srivastava Urban Theo-topias in India: Religious Identities, the State, Private Capital and the Making of the New ‘Ordinary’ Person
- Oxford Minds Panel - 'Power: what does it mean for states, markets, and society?'
- SAPT seminar: HT21 wk 5: ‘Story of Workers, Narrated by Workers’: Print Worlds of Indian Labour in Late Colonial India
- OICSD Event: Informality and Social Protection in the Global South: Reflections from Indian Cities
- OICSD/SARC Event: Food Security and Farm Laws in India
- OICSD Event: Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Environmentalism and Equity in Urban India
- SAPT seminar: HT21 wk 6: ‘The Law is just Background Noise’: The Political Economy of Land in Urban Pakistan
- SAPT seminar: HT21 wk 7: Qassab as Quraish: The Politics of the All India Jamiat ul-Quraish in Colonial United Provinces
- SAPT seminar: HT21 wk 8: The Politics of Expectation: Communism in Colonial India
- SAPT seminar: HT21 wk 9: Reading Gandhi in his Context: Situating the Self, the Other and the Political
- SAPT seminar: HT21 wk 10: Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar Winter 2021 9/11
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar Winter 2021 10/11
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar Winter 2021 11/11
- SAIH Seminar: HT21 Wk 7: Graduate Student Research Presentations
- SAIH Seminar: HT21 Wk 8:
- KCL Event: South Asia Unbound: Rethinking South Asian migration and diaspora
- Eductation.SouthAsia published new article by Mohini Gupta to celebrate "International Mother Tongue Day"
- KCL Event: South Asia Unbound: Alternative histories of humanitarianism in South Asia
- Barbara Harriss-White Thesis Prize Winners 2020
- OICSD Event: Natural Resource Management, Conservation and Climate Change in India
- KCL Event: South Asia Unbound: Intimate spaces of internationalism in South Asia
- KCL Event: South Asia Unbound: Artistic, literary, professional and business entanglements across and beyond South Asia
- Indox Event: Decolonising Science?
- KCL Event: South Asia Unbound: Within and beyond foreign affairs ministries: Institutions of international relations in South Asia
- KCL Event: South Asia Unbound: Changing imaginaries of South Asia
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar TT21 Wk 1: Capturing Institutional Change: the Case of the Right to Information Act in India
- The India-Oxford Initiative Webinar by Professor Romila Thapar: "Voices of Dissent"
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar TT21 Wk 2: Maoists, Peasant Rebellion and State Formation in Post-colonial Northwest Pakistan
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar TT21 Wk 3: The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur’s Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar TT21 Wk 4: Printing the Urdu Public: Madinah Newspaper and Lithography as a Muslim Technology
- SAIH Seminar: TT21 Wk 1: Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History
- SAIH Seminar: TT21 Wk 2: Emotions and Temporalities: On Ghosts, Jinns and their Exorcism
- SAIH Seminar: TT21 Wk 3: "Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch
- SAIH Seminar: TT21 Wk 4: Pure Kashmir: Nature in the Political Thought of Sheikh Abdullah, Muhammad Iqbal and Jawaharlal Nehru
- SAIH Seminar: TT21 Wk 6: A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India
- SAIH Seminar: TT21 Wk 7: Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies
- SAIH Seminar: TT21 Wk 8: Conceptual Problems in Distinguishing Global from Planetary Histories
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar programme for Trinity term 2021
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar summer 2021 1/6
- Dartmouth College Event: Conversations on South Asia: Weaving Histories
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar summer 2021 2/6
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar summer 2021 3/6
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar summer 2021 4/6
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar summer 2021 5/6
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar summer 2021 6/6
- Poetry Reading with Shahida Dilawar Shah
- New publication by CSASP affiliate, George Kunnath
- SAPT seminar: TT21 wk 2: Reconstructing a ‘good’ school: Materials, affects, and meanings of education in post-earthquake Nepal
- Nissan Seminar: Life Stories of Indian Migrants in Tokyo: Fairytales and Nightmares
- SAPT seminar: TT21 wk 3: Scales of Contempt: Language Politics and Public Assertion in Early 20th Century Western India
- Eductation.SouthAsia publishes new article by Shivani Misra about COVID and education and Nepal
- ODID-Oxfam India webinar: Time to Care: the intersection between social norms, unpaid care work and gender-based violence
- Online International Urdu Mushaira
- SAPT seminar: TT21 wk 5: The Cosmopolitan Standard of Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Elite Belonging Inside the Indian Foreign Service
- SAPT seminar: TT21 wk 6: Wealth, Internationality, and Elite Education in Urban Nepal: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
- Another publication by CSASP Research Associate, George Kunnath
- Call for papers - Education in Crisis Conference 2021
- SAPT seminar: TT21 wk 7: Language and 'Postcolonial Shame': Attitudes towards Mother Tongues amongst the Contemporary Urban Youth in India
- Appointment of Professor Timothy Power as Head of Division
- Education in Crisis: Re-thinking Education in (Post)-Pandemic South Asia
- Vacancy: Departmental Lecturer in Modern South Asian Studies
- Nayanika Mathur's new book published
- Education in Crisis conference organised by Education.SouthAsia
- Social History of Colonial India: 1800-1947
- International Conference on Maharashtra
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 1/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 2/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 3/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 4/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 5/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 6/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 7/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 8/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 9/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 1/10
- Online book talk: Nayanika Mathur: Crooked Cats
- Book Launch: Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the rise of ethnic Democracy
- Fourth Annual Virtual Roundtable on Residential Electricity Consumption
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT21 Wk 1: Borders and Identities: Who is a “Bangladeshi” in Assam?
- SAIH Seminar: MT21 Wk 1: The making of a populist: Entering politics and autonomy-seeking in contemporary India
- SAIH Seminar: MT21 Wk 2: Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva “Secularism”
- OII Event: Computational analysis of Modi's Twitter and social media uses
- The Changing Character of War Centre Event: The Integrated Review, the fall of Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific "tilt"
- Global and Imperial History Research Seminar: 'Global Asia': MT21 Wk 1: Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
- Global and Imperial History Research Seminar: 'Global Asia': MT21 Wk 2: Colombo as Idea and Artifact
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT21 Wk 2: Affects as Technology of Rule: Militarism in Pakistan
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT21 Wk 3: Decolonise Mosquitoes
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT21 Wk 4: The Lessons of 1950: Partition, and the making of the India- Pakistan Dynamic
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT21 Wk 5: Citizenship, Publicness and the Politics of Inclusive Democracy in India
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar HT21 Wk 6: Hidden histories of science; Ammal, Darlington, Haldane, and India, 1930-1960
- Modern South Asian Studies seminar MT21 Wk 7: Atrocity Nation/State Amnesia: The Photographic Debris of the Sri Lankan Civil War
- Wolfson SARC Event: The Health System of India Learning from disarray under Covid-19 and ‘building back better’?
- ONE network/OICSD event: India’s Energy Challenge in an Unequal and Warming World
- International History of East Asia Seminar: ‘A Jinnah for Chinese Islam’: Muslim Politics between South Asia and China, 1940-1949
- SAIH Seminar: MT21 Wk 3: Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense
- How can stories, histories, art and music help comprehend a planet in crisis?
- New urbanism, gender and violence in Gurgaon: Reports from India's Millennium City
- CSASP/OSGA welcomes Dr Thiruni Kelegama
- University of Oxford event: Professor Amartya Sen in conversation with the Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes
- Special OSGA Lecture
- Education South Asia seminar series: Inaugural Lecture: Revisiting Local Language and Education Practices: From a Decolonial Lens
- ODID Event: Book discussion on 'Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings' by Saumya Roy
- International History of East Asia Seminar: ‘Rockefeller Bolshevik: John Black Grant and the Conception of Modern Public Health in China and India’
- SAIH Seminar: MT21 Wk 4: The Nomos of the Globe: Currency, Empire and Financialization
- Understanding Kashmir and the Nullification of Article 370: Law, History, and Politics, Michaelmas Term 2021: Panel 1
- Understanding Kashmir and the Nullification of Article 370: Law, History, and Politics, Michaelmas Term 2021: Panel 2
- Understanding Kashmir and the Nullification of Article 370: Law, History, and Politics, Michaelmas Term 2021: Panel 3
- Understanding Kashmir and the Nullification of Article 370: Law, History, and Politics, Michaelmas Term 2021: Panel 4
- Understanding Kashmir and the Nullification of Article 370: Law, History, and Politics, Michaelmas Term 2021: Panel 5
- SAIH Seminar: MT21 Wk 5: Freedoms after Freedom: Lawyering as Political Practice in Post-Independent India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
- Book launch: Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India
- SAIH Seminar: MT21 Wk 6: They Refused to Tell Me Their Dreams: Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, Trans
- SAIH Seminar: MT21 Wk 7: British Imperial Thought, British Nationality, and Overseas Indians after 1947
- SAIH Seminar: MT21 Wk 8: The Option of Nonviolence
- OICSD Event: Institutional Activism and Girls' Education in Rural India
- MSAS Seminar: HT22, wk 1: Researching South Asia: Kashmir
- MSAS Seminar: HT22, wk 2: Researching South Asia: Bureaucracy
- MSAS Seminar: HT22, wk 3: Researching South Asia: Animals
- MSAS Seminar: HT22, wk 4: Researching South Asia: Climate Change
- SAIH Seminar: HT22 Wk1: Rule by Fear: Conceptualizing democracy and authoritarianism in Pakistan
- SAIH Seminar: HT22 Wk2: How ‘Dynasty’ Became a Modern Global Concept: Intellectual Histories of Sovereignty and Property
- SAIH Seminar: HT22 Wk3: "Downward Equalization”: A Gandhian Inversion of Dignity and Rights-Claims
- SAIH Seminar: HT22 Wk4: A Debatable Empire
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 2/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 3/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 4/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 5/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 6/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 7/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 8/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 9/10
- "Kavi Kovid" – Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 10/10
- Nayanika Mathur Book talk: "Crooked Cats: Beastly Tales from India"
- International Conference on Counting Caste: Breaking the Caste Census Deadlock
- MSAS/ASC Seminar: HT22, week 5: The Environment **CANCELLED**
- MSAS/ASC Seminar: HT22, week 6: Queer Politics
- MSAS/ASC Seminar: HT22, week 7: COVID-19
- MSAS/ASC Seminar: HT22, week 8: Corruption
- 'Ali Kazim: Suspended in Time' Exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum
- Barbara Harriss-White Thesis Prize winners 2021
- SAIH Seminar: HT22 Wk 5: Waiting for the People: Anticolonialism and the Idea of Democracy in India
- SAIH Seminar: HT22 Wk 6: The Infrastructure of Rumor: Development and Democracy in a Postcolony
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2022: Princes at Midnight: Afterlives of Subjecthood in Post-Partition India
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2022: Princes at Midnight: Afterlives of Subjecthood in Post-Partition India
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2022: Princes at Midnight: Afterlives of Subjecthood in Post-Partition India
- SAIH Seminar: HT22 Wk 7: B.R. Ambedkar's Sociophilia and Other Anti-Caste Sciences
- SAIH Seminar: HT22 Wk 8: Reflections on Gandhi’s Anti-Modernism
- Dr Jai Bhatia
- Malinowski Memorial Lecture 2022
- MSAS Seminar: TT22, wk 1: Fashioning Subjects: From Farmer, to Soldier, to Patriot
- MSAS Seminar: TT22, wk 2: ‘British Bolé Baap Re Baap’ - World War II and the Prospect of ‘Quit India’ in Bengal: ‘War’ Rumours and ‘Revolutionary’ Parties
- MSAS Seminar: TT22, wk 3: ‘Technology at the Wheel’: Computers, Data and Tech-Utopianisms in the Political Imagination of 1980s
- MSAS Seminar: TT22, wk 4: The Cosmopolitan Standard of Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Elite Belonging among Indian Diplomats
- SAIH Seminar: TT22 Wk 1: Justice Beyond Rights
- SAIH Seminar: TT22 Wk 2: Seeing the People in Mughal India
- SAIH Seminar: TT22 Wk 3: Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir
- SAIH Seminar: TT22 Wk 4: Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
- SAIH Seminar: TT22 Wk 5: Ma'na and War
- IndOx Event: 2022 Uttar Pradesh Elections: The Verdict Beyond the Numbers
- OPP Event: The Inaugural Sir Muhammad Iqbal Lecture
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2022: The Elements in the Anthropocene: Urban India’s Changing Climate
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2022: The Elements in the Anthropocene: Urban India’s Changing Climate
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2022: The Elements in the Anthropocene: Urban India’s Changing Climate
- Distinguished Lecture: Mapping Dalits and Adivasis in India’s Business Economy
- IndOx Annual Event
- Rex Nettleford Lecture on Colonialism and Its Legacies: Coming from, not staying at the roots: dealing with colonial legacies of language and law in South Asia and beyond
- "Kavi Kovid" - Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 4/7
- "Kavi Kovid" - Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 3/7
- "Kavi Kovid" - Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 2/7
- "Kavi Kovid" - Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 1/7
- "Kavi Kovid" - Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 5/7
- "Kavi Kovid" - Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 6/7
- "Kavi Kovid" - Classical Hindi Textual Study Seminar 7/7
- Naked Devotion Digambar Jain Literature in Early Modern North India
- SAIH Seminar: TT22 Wk 6: The Poetics of Hindutva
- SAIH Seminar: TT22 Wk 7: Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)
- SAIH Seminar: TT22 Wk 8: ‘Jim-Crowed the World Over’: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Idea of the Global South
- Thiruni Kelegama: What does a resignation mean for Sri Lanka?
- Nayanika Mathur promoted to ‘Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies’ in Oxford University’s Recognition of Distinction exercise 2022.
- Anthropology of Buddhism
- Unmasking the State: Civil Society Activism in South Asia
- Ensuring Safe and Secure Seas in the Indian Ocean
- Teaching Partition: Negotiating profoundly personal histories in the school classroom
- Myths and legacies: Partition in India today
- CSASP/OSGA welcomes Dr Yasser Kureshi and Dr Ankita Pandey
- Dr Laura Trajber Waisbich: New Publications
- MSAS Seminar: Free Speech in Mughal India: Dissent and Resistance in Poetic Expression
- MSAS Seminar: Musical Citizens and Postcolonial Custodians: Inter-religious Dialogue in Post-Partition Punjab and Beyond
- MSAS Seminar: The Indian Diaspora and Transnational Political Identities
- Feeding into Partition? The Bengal Famine of 1943 and the Carving of Communal Identities
- MSAS Seminar: Buddhism and Marginality in Translation among Ambedkarites in East Asia
- MSAS Seminar: The Materiality of Debt, Kinship, and the Invisible Violence of Migration in Nepal
- MSAS Seminar: A Cowherd’s Chapbook: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Literary Historiography
- Documentary Screening: "The Modi Question"
- IndOx Screening of BAFTA and Oscar nominated 'All That Breathes' & discussion with Director, Producer and cast members
- IndOx Seminar Series 2023: The Worlding of (South) Asian Art and Questions of Representation
- Book Discussion on Terror Trials
- MSAS Seminar: Documenting oral histories of Partition collaboratively across a communal divide
- MSAS Seminar: Rohingyas in Decolonisation as a Moment, Process, and Movement
- MSAS Seminar: Spaces of Melancholia, Melancholias of Space: Shifting Structures of Feeling in Post-Independence Karachi
- MSAS Seminar: Entangled Objects, Entangled Nations: Partition and Museums in Lahore and Chandigarh
- MSAS Seminar: Panel discussion: India as a ‘civilisational state’
- MSAS Seminar: Panel discussion with Rangoonwalla Visiting Fellows: Resistance and Change in Pakistan’s Political Order
- Doing Fieldwork - Lunchtime Series, Trinity 2023
- Doing Fieldwork Series: Plan vs. Reality
- Doing Fieldwork Series: After Fieldwork: back to the office
- Doing Fieldwork Series: Ethics and Positionality
- Politics, Democracy, and Public Interest: A conversation with Prashant Bhushan
- Public Policy Challenge Fund award
- Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
- MSAS Seminar: A City of Men? Youth Masculinities and Everyday Gendered Violences in Urban India - Shannon Philip (UEA)
- MSAS Seminar: Pakistan & India : Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories - Pervez Hoodbhoy
- MSAS Seminar: Limitations on fundamental freedoms in Sri Lanka: majoritarian influence of constitutional practice - Gehan Gunatilleke (Oxford)
- MSAS Seminar: Rising power, precarious citizens: Mobility and democracy in India after 1989 - Indrajit Roy (York)
- MSAS Seminar: Majoritarian nationalisms and religion in South Asia - Katharine Adeney (Nottingham)
- MSAS Seminar: An Emotional History of India in the Second World War - Gupta Diya (City, University of London)
- MSAS Seminar: Migration, Caste, and the Figure of the ‘Coolie’ in Indian Diplomatic History - Kalathmika Natarajan (Exeter)
- MSAS Seminar: Rethinking urban resistance as sites for rebuilding differential solidarities - Papia Sen Gupta (JNU)
- DPhil Candidate Song Tang receives award at Tsinghua Area Studies Forum
- #Go Home Gota: Film Screening and Discussion
- MSAS Seminar: Thirty seconds at Quetta: Time and disaster on the North-West Frontier, 1935
- MSAS Seminar: The Rājā Yogī through the ages: Ascetic Sovereignty in India
- MSAS Seminar: An Anthropology of 'Sovereignty' - Sanjaya Sristava (SOAS). New Land Markets, an Entrepreneurial State and the Aspirations of a ‘Criminal Caste’ in Gurgaon, Haryana -
- Doing Fieldwork: Lunchtimes informal sessions 2023-24
- Graduate Indology Seminar, Week 8
- Doing Fieldwork: Lunchtimes informal sessions 2023-24
- Doing History in Public - the necessity of Public History in contemporary South Asia
- MSAS Seminar: Climate Change Communication and Comparative Perspectives of Global South and North
- MSAS Seminar: Temporary Exhibits: The Cultural Politics of South Asian ‘Folk’ Performances in Contemporary Fairs and Festivals
- MSAS Seminar: Towards an Anthropology of Answers: The Lost Trajectories of the Racialized Colonial Domestic Workers in South India and Beyond.’
- MSAS Seminar: The value of difference: Hindu Muslim encounters in Karachi, Pakistan
- Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series Term Cards
- Barbara Harriss-White Thesis Prize Winner 2023
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- Professor Kate Sullivan de Estrada
- Thomasina Eustace
- Dr Thiruni Kelegama
- Dr Yasser Kureshi
- Dr Ankita Pandey
- Professor Barbara Harriss-White
- Dr Uma Pradhan
- Dr Laura Rival
- Dr Kira Huju
- Dr Anwesha Roy
- MSAS Seminar: Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema
- MSAS Seminar: "Politics and Persecution: Pashto, Pashtun and Pashtunistan" - Autobiography of Samad Khan Achakzai
- MSAS Seminar: Deconstructing State and Identity in Pakistan
- Dr Janaki Srinivasan
- Book talk by Kunal Purohit on “H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars”
- MSAS Seminar: Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
- MSAS Seminar: The Muslim son of a Hindu zamindar - family quarrels and religious boundaries in a Mughal landlord's lineage
- MSAS Seminar: Populism, piety and postfeminism in Pakistan
- MSAS Seminar: The political lives of Information: Information and invisibilisation in digital India
- MSAS Seminar: Radical Futures or Pristine Pasts?: The Afterlives of Anti-Casteism in Western India
- MSAS Seminar: Book Talk: Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
- MSAS Seminar: Hate Crime las as Meliorst Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan
- MSAS Seminar: Legalising the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony