• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Tuesdays from 2:00-3:30pm
• Web Address: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/research-centres/asian-studies-centre
• Organising department: Oxford School of Global and Area Studies

Tuesday 3 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Raj at War
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)

Tuesday 10 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh
  Chris Moffat (Queen Mary)

Tuesday 17 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Longing for the state: The dialectics of the Local and Transnational in Pakistan's Sunni-Shi'i Sectarianism
  Simon Fuchs (Cambridge)

Wednesday 18 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - A Discussion of 'The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth'
  Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago), Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford), Shruti Kapila (Cambridge), Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths)

Tuesday 24 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - A National History for Pakistan: Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi (1903-1981) and the Genealogy of the 'Master Narrative'
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)

Tuesday 1 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Paradoxes of the Shia Minority in Pakistan
  Andreas Rieck (Berlin)

Tuesday 19 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Making of a Constitution: Pakistan and the Question of Sovereignty
  Yaqoob Khan Bangash (Lahore)

Tuesday 26 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Spirits of Discord and Everyday Labours of Peace: Intercommunal Relations in Amroha
  Laurent Gayer (Scievnces-Po)

Tuesday 2 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Research Seminar
  Amar Sohal, Ria Kapoor, Daniel Hunt

Tuesday 9 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Research Seminar
  Gautham Shiralagi, Smriti Sawkar, Conor Meleady

Tuesday 16 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Mechanism of oppression, Dalits and legal developments in India
  Dag Erik Berg (Göttingen)

Tuesday 23 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Research Seminar
  Niroshini Sundaresan, Emile Rolland, Sam McNeil

Tuesday 1 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Workshop on Pakistani Historiography
  TBA

Monday 7 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - An Undocumented Wonder - the Making of the Great Indian Election
  S.Y. Quraishi (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India)

Tuesday 8 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Histories of the ephemeral: writing on music in the late Mughal world
  Katherine Butler Schofield (King’s College, London)

Tuesday 26 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Colonial India and the Hajj, 1865-1950
  John Slight (St John's College, Cambridge)

Tuesday 3 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Fires of Hell: Communalism and Satire in the Hindi Short Stories of Pandey Bechan Sharma "Ugra"
  David Lunn (SOAS)

Tuesday 10 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Distinction or Distraction? The Politics of Connoisseurship in eighteenth-century Rajput Courts
  Richard Williams (Oriental Studies; Trinity College, Oxford)

Tuesday 17 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Gandhian Entrepreneurship - Kamalnayan Bajaj, Architect of the Bajaj Group
  Gita Piramal (Said Business School, Oxford)

Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Rediscovering the Primitive: Adivasi Histories in and after Subaltern Studies
  Uday Chandra (Georgetown, Qatar)

Tuesday 31 May 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Can Britain be liable for reparations for the 1943-44 Bengal Famine?
  Sarmila Bose (DPIR, Oxford)

Wednesday 1 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Women and Conflict in India
  Sanghamitra Choudhury (St Antony's College; Sikkim)

Tuesday 11 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Of Nomadology and India(n-ness)
  Avishek Ray (Silchar; Edinburgh)

Tuesday 18 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - A Zionist Passage to India?
  Arie Dubnov (Haifa; George Washington)

Tuesday 25 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Book launch: Defending British India Against Napoleon: The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto, 1807-13
  Aditya Das (Swansea), Huw Bowen (Swansea)

Tuesday 1 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Re-building Democracy: Parekh on Indian Nationalism and the Common Good
  Colin Tyler (Hull)

Tuesday 8 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Eastminster – Decolonisation and State-Building in British Asia
  Harshan Kumarasingham (Frankfurt; Commonwealth Studies, London)

Tuesday 15 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Feminine Abandon and the Abducted Woman in Post-Partition Shorey Comedies
  Salma Siddique (Freie Universität Berlin)

Tuesday 22 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Feeling Untouched: Space, Emotions and Untouchability
  Jesús Cháirez-Garza (Leeds)

Tuesday 29 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Pakistan and Ireland: Exploring Comparative Constitutional Perspectives on Decolonisation, Dominion Status, & Beyond
  Luke McDonagh (City, London), Mara Malagodi (City, London)

Tuesday 17 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Directive Principles and the Expressive Accommodation of Ideological Dissenters in the Indian Constitution
  Tarunabh Khaitan (Wadham)

Tuesday 24 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Britain's Anglo-Indians: The Invisibility of Assimilation
  Rochelle Almeida (NYU)

Tuesday 31 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Majewski Lecture: The Colloquy between Muhammad and Saytān: The 18th century Bangla Iblichnāmā of Garībullā
  Tony K. Stewart (Vanderbilt)

Tuesday 7 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Student Presentations on South Asian History
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 14 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Student Presentations on South Asian History
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 21 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Hindu Militarism, P.D. Tandon and the Politics of Scale in 1940s Uttar Pradesh
  William Gould (Leeds)

Tuesday 28 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - A Dreadful Scourge: Comprehending Cholera in Early Nineteenth Century India
  Mark Harrison (Green Templeton)

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Witness to Paradise: Photojournalism in Kashmir's Present, 1986-2016
  Please note this special talk will be held at 5 p.m. on a Friday in the Pavilion Room, St Antony’s College.
  Sanjay Kak (Independent Film-Maker and Photographer)

Tuesday 7 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Unmaking of an Imperial Army: The Indian Army in World War II
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
  Tarak Barkawi (LSE, London)

Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the 19th century
  Dilip Menon (Witswatersrand)
• 14:00 - An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the 19th century
  Dilip Menon (Witswatersrand)

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Tim Harper (Cambridge)

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971
  Nayanika Mookheerjee (Durham)

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - India Conquered: The British Raj and the Chaos of Empire’
  Jon Wilson (King's College London)

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Scribes, ‘Paper and the Formation of the colonial State in North India, 1780-1840
  Hayden Bellenoit (United States Naval Academy)

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Syed Ahmad Khan: Reform, Rivalry, and Heresy in late 19th-century India’
  Teena Purohit (Boston)

Monday 5 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Dismissal of a Teacher and Academic Freedom: An Annal of early Calcutta and its Echoes
  Please note that this special talk, organised with the Department for International Development and the Free Speech Debate Project, will be held at 5 p.m. on a Monday in the Pavilion Room, St Antony’s College.
  Rudrangshu Mukherjee (Ashoka)

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Untouchable Citizen
  Jason Keith Fernandes (Lisbon)

Tuesday 10 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Age of Fasad: Jihad, Piety and Liturgical Islam in the Indian Ocean (1500-1750)
  Yasser Arafath (Delhi)

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - India's Search for Prosperity: Is Modi on the Right Track?
  Vijay Joshi (Merton College)

Tuesday 24 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Sepia Paise: The Politics and Poetics of Art and Photography in South Asia and Beyond
  Natasha Eaton (University College London)

Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Parallel Governance and Political Order in Contested Territory: Evidence from the Indo-Naga Ceasefire
  Rajesh Venugopal (London School of Economics)

Tuesday 7 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Sweatshop Regime: Garments, Exploitation, and labouring Bodies made in India
  Alessandra Mezzadri (School of Oriental and African Studies)

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Tracing Conscience in Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka 1960s to 2000s
  Johnathan Spencer (Edinburgh)

Tuesday 21 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The British High Commission in Pakistan 1947-71: Role and History
  Ian Talbot (Southampton)

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Political Economy of Business-State Deals in Indian States
  Kunal Sen (Manchester)

Tuesday 16 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Subaltern Counter-Publics: Dalits and Missionary Christianity in Kerala
  Sanal Mohan (Mahatma Gandhi Universit)

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Rohingya Exodus: Orchestrated Violence and Strategies of Surviva
  Shapan Adnan

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Violence, Rents and Investment: Explaining Growth Divergence in South Asia
  Adnan Naseemullah (King's College London)

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Querying the Cosmopolitan in Sri Lankan and Indian Ocean History
  Zoltán Biedermann (University College London), Alan Strathern (Brasenose)

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Ambivalence, Ambiguity and Alienation: Making Sense of 'Tension' in North India
  Raphael Susewind (King's College London)

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal
  Avinash Paliwal (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Money, Enticements, Modernity: Indian Elite Women between Anxiety and Privilege
  Parul Bhandari (Centre of Social Sciences and Humanities)

Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Farmers Matter in New India but not the Same Way: Political Settlement, Discontinuous Agrarian Policy and Class-Formations
  Sejuti Das Gupta (James Madison)

Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Harem Histories and Princely Politics: Tipu Sultan, the Family and East India Company Rule
  Margot Finn (UCL)

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Economic Mobility, Islamic Piety and Caste: Ashrafization in Pakistani Punjab
  Muhammad Ali Jan (Wolfson)

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Globalisation, Public Policy and Labour
  Zaad Mahmood (ODID, Presidency University, Kolkata)

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Peopling Policy Processes? Methodological Populism in the Bangladesh Health and Education Sectors
  David Lewis (LSE)

Tuesday 9 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - How India became democratic
  Ornit Shani (Haifa)

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - India’s new Indian Ocean vision: Outward syncretization, inward Hinduization?
  Kate Sullivan de Estrada (St Antony's College)

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Sri Lanka In and Out of South Asia
  Mick Moore (Institute of Development Studies)

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The problem of origins in Early Modern Eurasian empires
  Ali Anooshahr (University of California at Davis)

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Political anthropology of India
  Anastasia Piliavsky (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Marketing Muslims: Islam in the Bazaars of Modern South Asia
  Ali Altaf Mian (Seattle)

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - West Africans in WW2 India
  Oliver Coates

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Hierarchy and Imperialism in Late Colonial Indian International Thought
  Martin Bayly (LSE)