Events this person is organising:

Monday 18 January 2021

• 16:00 - Nation and Its Discontents: The Poetics and Politics of Siraiki Nationalism in Pakistan
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 25 January 2021

• 16:00 - Gandhian Satyagraha in the Mirror of Marxism
  Karuna Mantena (Columbia University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 1 February 2021

• 16:00 - The Making of "Veer Savarkar": Methods for Writing an Intellectual History
  Vinayak Chaturvedi (University of California, Irvine)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 8 February 2021

• 16:00 - The Curious Career of Shunya: Politics and Metaphysics of Caste Thinking in India
  Prathama Banerjee (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 15 February 2021

• 16:00 - Bedil’s Bisemic Ghazal Poetics
  Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 22 February 2021

• 16:00 - On Violence or the Civil War of 1947 and the Importance of Indian Political Thought
  Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 1 March 2021

• 16:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  Various Speakers
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 8 March 2021

• 16:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  Various Speakers
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 26 April 2021

• 16:00 - Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History
  Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 3 May 2021

• 16:00 - Emotions and Temporalities. On Ghosts, Jinns and their Exorcism
  Margrit Pernau (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 10 May 2021

• 15:00 - "Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch
  Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 17 May 2021

• 16:00 - Pure Kashmir: Nature in the Political Thought of Sheikh Abdullah, Muhammad Iqbal and Jawaharlal Nehru
  Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 24 May 2021

• 16:00 - POSTPONED - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
  Jyotirmaya Sharma (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 31 May 2021

• 16:00 - A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India
  Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 7 June 2021

• 16:00 - Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies
  Durba Ghosh (Cornell University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 14 June 2021

• 16:00 - Conceptual Problems in Distinguishing Global from Planetary Histories
  Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 11 October 2021

• 16:00 - The making of a populist: Entering politics and autonomy-seeking in contemporary India
  Dr Jean-Thomas Martelli (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 18 October 2021

• 16:00 - Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva “Secularism”
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 25 October 2021

• 16:00 - Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense
  Professor Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 1 November 2021

• 16:00 - The Nomos of the Globe: Currency, Empire and Financialization
  Professor Ritu Birla (University of Toronto)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 8 November 2021

• 16:00 - Freedoms after Freedom: Lawyering as Political Practice in Post-Independent India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
  Professor Rohit De (Yale University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 15 November 2021

• 16:00 - They Refused to Tell Me Their Dreams: Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, Trans
  Dr Akshi Singh (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 22 November 2021

• 16:00 - British Imperial Thought, British Nationality, and Overseas Indians after 1947
  Dr Ian Sanjay Patel (London School of Economics)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 29 November 2021

• 16:00 - The Option of Nonviolence
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 17 January 2022

• 16:00 - Rule by Fear: Conceptualizing Democracy and Authoritarianism in Pakistan
  Dr Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 24 January 2022

• 16:00 - How 'Dynasty' Became a Modern Global Concept: Intellectual Histories of Sovereignty and Property
  Dr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 31 January 2022

• 16:00 - "Downward Equalization”: A Gandhian Inversion of Dignity and Rights-Claims
  Professor Manu Samnotra (University of South Florida)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 7 February 2022

• 16:00 - A Debatable Empire
  Dr Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 14 February 2022

• 16:00 - Waiting for the People: Anticolonialism and the Idea of Democracy in India
  Dr Nazmul Sultan (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 21 February 2022

• 16:00 - The Infrastructure of Rumor: Development and Democracy in a Postcolony
  Professor Nusrat S. Chowdhury (Amherst College)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 28 February 2022

• 16:00 - B.R. Ambedkar's Sociophilia and Other Anti-Caste Sciences
  Professor J. Daniel Elam (University of Hong Kong)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 7 March 2022

• 16:00 - Reflections on Gandhi’s Anti-Modernism
  Professor Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 25 April 2022

• 16:00 - Justice Beyond Rights
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 2 May 2022

• 16:00 - Seeing the People in Mughal India
  Professor Abhishek Kaicker (UC Berkeley)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 9 May 2022

• 16:00 - Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir
  Anish Gawande (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 16 May 2022

• 16:00 - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
  Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 23 May 2022

• 16:00 - Ma'na and War
  Dr James Caron (SOAS University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 30 May 2022

• 16:00 - POSTPONED - The Poetics of Hindutva
  Professor Janaki Bakhle (UC Berkeley)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 6 June 2022

• 16:00 - Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)
  Professor Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 13 June 2022

• 16:00 - ‘Jim-Crowed the World Over’: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Idea of the Global South
  Professor Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 31 October 2022

• 16:00 - ‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia
  Professor Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 7 November 2022

• 16:00 - Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin
  Professor Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University - London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 16:00 - POSTPONED - Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 16 January 2023

• 16:00 - The Logic of Cruelty and Violence in Ambedkar and Gandhi
  Professor Uday Singh Mehta (The City University of New York)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 16:00 - Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 13 March 2023

• 16:00 - Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination
  Professor Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida, Tampa)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 1 May 2023

• 16:00 - Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbor
  Ajay Skaria (University of Minnesota)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 8 May 2023

• 16:00 - A New Vision of Vivekananda?
  Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 15 May 2023

• 16:00 - Seduced by God or Man? Religious Conversions and Women’s Desire in Pakistan
  Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 22 May 2023

• 16:00 - Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India
  Robert Travers (Cornell University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 29 May 2023

• 16:00 - Dharma, Artha, and the Politics of Law and Sovereignty in Colonial India
  Sunil Purushotham (Fairfield University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 5 June 2023

• 16:00 - “His Soul was a Bird of the Divine Throne”: Persian Inscriptions on Mughal Imperial Tombs and Mosques
  A. Azfar Moin (The University of Texas at Austin)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 12 June 2023

• 16:00 - CANCELLED - Red Maulanas: Islam and the Left in South Asia
  Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar