Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars

Professor Navtej Purewal & Professor Virinder Kalra - 'Beyond religion in India and Pakistan: gender and caste, borders and boundaries'

Dr Layli Uddin - Mao-lana Bhashani in Mao's China: Islamic socialism and subaltern internationalism in Asia

Gyan Prakash - 'Democracy and emergency in India'

Mrinalini Venkateswaran: 'Contested collections: museums in the Punjab princely states, 1947-1957'

Vijayalakshmi Teelock - The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission: personal reflections with special attention to South Asian labour in Mauritius

Dr Katherine Butler Schofield - Mayalee Dancing Girl, the East india Company, and the Sambhar Salt Lake 1835-42

Dr Ruvani Ranasinha - Contemporary Sri Lankan Anglophone writing

Professor Romila Thapar - Recognising the Other: religion and society in pre-modern North India

Professor Francesca Orsini - Literary activism in Cold War India: the short story, the magazine and the world

Dr Saumya Saxena - From the courtroom to the courtyard - the public life of personal law in post-independence India

Professor Monica Juneja - 'The travails of a migrating concept - art in the crossfire between the "religious" and the "aesthetic".'

Dr Mark Elliot (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) and Mrinalini Venkataswaran (University of Cambridge) - 'Exhibiting South Asia'

Professor Javed Majeed - 'White noise, séances and colonial linguistics'

Dr Sriya Iyer - 'The economics of religion in India'

Professor Robert Travers - 'A historian as petitioner: Ghulam Husain Khan Tabataba'i and the late Mughal context for colonial state-formation in eighteenth century India'

Professor Polly O'Hanlon - Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture - 'Discourses of caste over the long durée: re-framing Brahmin identity in modern India'

Professor Jaideep Prabhu - 'Jugaad innovation: the implications for South Asia'

Luna Sabastian - 'Benoy Kumar Sarkar - interwar internationalism, geopolitics, totalitarianism'.

Dr Ammara Maqsood - 'Love as understanding: marriage, aspiration and the joint family in middle-class Pakistan'.

Dr Farzana Haniffa - 'Moor "culture" in independent Ceylon: the 1940s establishment of the Moors Islamic Cultural Home'