Sachin Ketkar gives the second presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Asian Studies Centre

Persian Cosmopolis and World Literature in Precolonial Marathi Literary Historiography

Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 26 April 2021.

Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History

Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, IISc) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 10 May 2021. For more information on the event, see here. For queries, please contact the seminar convenor at saih@history.ox.ac.uk. Please note that there were some unavoidable technical difficulties during this talk, which have impacted the quality of the recording.

"Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch

Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 31 May 2021.

A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India

Durba Ghosh (Cornell University) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 June 2021.

Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies

Saili Palande-Datar gives the fourth and final presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

"वासाड गावाचा धनगर राजा": Ecological Refugees in Ancestral Grass-scape (Historical life space and changing socio-economic dynamics)

Bina Sengar gives the third presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Mobilizing transregional indigenous identities on cross-sectional borders

Anjali Nerlekar gives the first talk on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Circuits of interchange and influence: The 1979 Rucha issue on Urdu and Marathi modernist poetry

Rahul Sarwate gives the fourth presentation on the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Education, Nationalism and the Native Body: the Pradnya Pathshala Project

Shraddha Kumbhojkar gives the third presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

सत्ता तुझी राणीबाई: Royals in Marathi Writings

Dominic Vendell gives the second presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Like Milk and Sugar

Roy Fischel gives the first presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Chand Bibi between Persianate cosmopolitanism and regional particularism

This talk examines the emotional and intimate logics of occupation, citizenship, and state-making in Gilgit-Baltistan, a contested borderland between India and Pakistan that forms part of the Kashmir dispute.

Delusional states: Love, Citizenship and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan

Manan Amend (Columbia), gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series.

A Contrapuntal History of Hindustan

Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series. This talk explores connections between ‘development’ and the politics of agrarian reform in Sindh (Pakistan) during the period of transition straddling Independence. On the one hand, it highlights the place of development thinking in contemporary debates and policy making there before and after 1947; on the other, it acknowledges the role of the local hari movement in pushing for tenancy changes in the Sindhi countryside. Sarah Ansari conducts research primarily (but not exclusively) on the nineteenth and twentieth-century history of Sindh. Her publications have focused on a range of topics, including local religious elites (pirs) under British rule, the impact of Partition in both the short and longer term, and women’s lives in Pakistan’s early years. Her latest book Boundaries of Belonging; localities, citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan (co-authored with William Gould) was published in late 2019.

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

The Asian Studies Centre was founded in 1982 at St Antony's College and is primarily a co-ordinating organisation which exists to bring together specialists from a wide variety of different disciplines. Geographically, the Centre predominantly covers South, Southeast and East Asia. The Asian Studies Centre works closely with scholars in the Oriental Institute, the Oxford China Centre, the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies (in premises at St Antony's). The Asian Studies Centre is host to the Taiwan Studies Programme, Modern Burmese Studies Programme, the South Asian History Seminar Series and the Southeast Asian Studies Seminar Series.

Persian Cosmopolis and World Literature in Precolonial Marat...