Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT


2016-01-13 17:00: The Indian village: from Marx to Modi (Professor Edward Simpson, School of Oriental and African Studies)

2016-01-20 17:00: Consolidating a State: Pakistan's integration of the Princely States, 1947-56 (Dr Yaqoob Khan Bangash, Information Technology University, Lahore)

2016-01-27 17:00: Hindu nationalist training camps and the Indian diaspora (Edward Anderson, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-03 17:00: The space of the mohalla: from Congress to communal geographies in the interwar Delhi (Dr Stephen Legg, University of Nottingham)

2016-02-10 17:00: The water of Delhi: pre-colonial modernity in Urdu poetry (Professor Ruth Vanita, University of Montana)

2016-02-24 17:00: THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS  K C Banerjee, 'world-tourist': radical internationalism in late-colonial Asia (Dr Tim Harper, University of Cambridge)

2016-03-02 17:00: Looking into 'Indian' pasts: archaeology, histories and ways of seeing (Dr Sudeshna Guha, Shiv Nadar University , India)

2016-03-07 17:00: Mail Models: Knowledge Practices and Postal Standardisation in Nineteenth-Century India (Devyani Gupta, University of Cambridge)

2016-03-09 17:00: Hierarch, democracy and political responsibility in northern india (Dr Anastasia Piliavsky, University of Cambridge)

2016-04-20 17:00: Tolerance in Islamic thought: South Asian innovations (Dr Humeira Iqtidar, King's College London)

2016-05-04 17:00: 'Produce or perish'.  The crisis of the late 1940s and the place of labour in postcolonial India (Professor Ravi Ahuja, University of Gottingen)

2016-05-11 17:00: 'We may learn much from them as well as teach': 1857, revolutionary contagion and British critics of Empire (Dr Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-18 17:00: South Asia's minorities - rough road to citizenship! (Dr Sajjad Hassan, Centre for Equity Studies - Misaal, New Delhi)

2016-05-25 17:00: Khomeini's perplexed Pakistani men: importing and debating the Iranian Revolution (Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, University of Cambridge)

2016-06-01 17:00: Princely education in India in the age of colonialism: the education of Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda, 1875-81 (Teresa Segura Garcia, University of Cambridge)

2016-06-06 17:00: Between bazaar logics and the commodity fetish: notes on Trademark Law in Colonial India (Professor Arvind Rajagopal, New York University)

2016-10-05 17:00: K.C. Banerjee, 'world tourist': radical internationalism in late-colonial Asia (Professor Tim Harper, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-12 17:00: Britain's Anglo-Indians: the invisibility of assimilation (Dr Rochelle Almeida, New York University)

2016-10-19 17:00: Entrepreneurs and superheroes: relational ambiguity in a Bangladesh social enterprise (Dr Juli Huang, London School of Economics)

2016-10-26 17:00: On the Indian origins of Nationalism (Dr Norbert Peabody, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-02 17:00: A Sri Lankan evening in conjunction with the University Language Centre (Dr Sujit Sivasundarm, Dr Shailaja Fennell, Jocelyn Wyburd, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-09 17:00: Bombay and its hinterlands: the economic integration of the Princely States in western India, 1845-1870 (Dr Kate Boehme, University of Sussex)

2016-11-16 17:00: Far from the Caliph's gaze: being Ahmadi Muslim in the holy city of Qadian (Dr Nick Evans, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-23 17:00: A new monarchy for a new Commonwealth - monarchy and the consequences of Republican India (Dr Harshan Kumarasingham, The Max Planck Institute)

2016-11-30 17:00: Vectors of Empire: mosquitoes in British India and beyond, 1900-1940 (Dr Rohan Deb Roy, University of Reading)

2017-01-18 17:00: Fear, Violence, and the Making of British Power in India (Dr Mark Condos, Queen Mary University of London)

2017-01-25 17:00: The emergence of the Indian and Chinese economic powerhouses: historical and institutional perspectives (Professor Raj Brown, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2017-02-01 17:00: The politics of Shari'a Law: Islamist activists and the state of democratizing Indonesia (Dr Michael Buehler, School of Oriental and African Studies)

2017-02-15 17:00: New Frontiers: Reworking the International History of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands - a round table discussion to be chaired by Professor Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex.  Title tbc (Dr Elisabeth Leake, University of Leeds; Dr Martin Bayly, London School of Economics and Professor Magnus Marsden , University of Sussex)

2017-02-22 17:00: Sophia Dobson Collet and the Brahma Samaj: religious cosmopolitanism between nineteenth-century Britain and Bengal (PROFESSOR cLARE mIDGLEY, sHEFFIELD hALLAM uNIVERSITY)

2017-03-01 17:00: Feeling untouched: space, emotions and untouchability (Dr Jesus Chairez, University of Leeds)

2017-03-08 17:00: Gendered violence in South Asia: the politics of knowledge and practice (Dr Manali Desai, University of Cambridge)

2017-03-15 17:00: On writing a population history of india (Professor Timother Dyson, London School of Economics)

2017-04-26 12:00: 'On the Ethics and Politics of Decolonization  in South Africa' - Co-hosted with the CRASSH Decolonizing the Curriculum Group (Professor Xolela Mangcu  University of Cape Town)

2017-04-26 17:00: The Dr Raj Chandavarkar Seminar: - Deep time and the colonial present: a prologue to the history writings of 'Kesari' Balakrishna Pillai (Professor Dilip Menon, University of the Witwatersrand)

2017-05-03 17:00: 'Man may plan, but things happen as God wishes': reconstruction and development in pre- and post-independence Sindh (Professor Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2017-05-10 17:00: Indian democracy in the 70th year of independence: understanding the 2017 Uttar Pradesh elections.  A round-table discussion (Dr Manali Desai, University of Cambridge; Sagnik Dutta, University of Cambridge; Dr Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Ashoka University; Dr Raphael Susewind, King's College London and Dr Philippa Williams, Queen Mary Uniersity of London)

2017-05-17 17:00: The inaugural Professor C.A. Bayly Seminar: Visuality and the moral citizen in late socialist Vietnam (Professor Susan Bayly, University of Cambridge)

2017-05-31 17:00: Hegemony and its discontents: translating Gramsci with Dalit Subalterns (Dr Karin Kapadia, University of Oxford)

2017-06-07 17:00: On the edge of colonialism: navigating history and commerce in the Asian fiction of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) (Dr Andrew Francis, University of Cambridge)

2017-06-14 17:00: Raj to Republic: Queen Victoria and Indian nationalism, 1901-1947 (Professor Miles Taylor, University of York)

2017-10-04 17:00: Alternatives to citizenship at the end of empire: princes, subjects and mass migration (Professor Joya Chatterji, Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies and Professor of South Asian History, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-11 17:00: An inheritance of loss: private debt to public charity in princely Mysore (Professor Janaki Nair, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

2017-10-18 17:00: Plastic history, caste and the government of things in modern India (Dr Sarah Hodges, University of Warwick)

2017-10-25 17:00: Sikhs and the partition of India: rethinking the Sikh national question, 1940-47 (Professor Gurharpal Singh, SOAS)

2017-11-01 17:00: How does a constable cognize? Notes for a social history of police power in colonial Bengal (Dr Partha Pratim Shil, University of Cambridge)

2017-11-08 17:00: 'A naturally forming harbor?': silt, geological testimony and law in the Bengal Delta (Dr Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University)

2017-11-15 17:00: As caste hierarchies wane: explaining inter-caste violence, accommodations and stalemates in rural India (Professor James Manor, School of Advanced Study, Universit of London)

2017-11-22 17:00: Caste, class, and culture in contemporary Nepal (Professor David Gellner, University of Oxford)

2018-01-17 17:00: Depicting the British abroad.  Discontinuities in Johan Zoffany's Tuscan and Indian experience, 1772-1789 (Dr Arundhati Vermani and Dr Jean Boutier, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille)

2018-01-24 17:00: Global Christianity and the Transformation of the Emotional World of Dalits:  A Critical Reading of the Missionary Writings (Dr P. Sanal Mohan (Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala and Smuts Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies))

2018-01-31 17:00: Remembering and forgetting a prince in exile: Myngoon Min  in Myanmar and Vietnam (Dr Natasha Pairaudeau (University of Cambridge))

2018-02-14 17:00: 'Nobody comes with an empty head': enterprise Hindutva and social media in urban India (Professor Dr Sahana Udupa (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München))

2018-02-21 17:00: An African orient?  West Africans in World War Two India, 1943-1947 (Dr Oliver Coates (University of Cambridge))

2018-04-25 17:00: Ayutthaya in Asian history from the 13th to 18th century (Professor Chris Baker and Professor Pasuk Phongpaichet (Chulalongkorn University))

2018-05-02 17:00: Creation and transformation: value and the satisfaction of work (Dr Andrew Sanchez (University of Cambridge))

2018-05-09 17:00: Shankh-er Shongshar, afterlife everyday: the evening conch, goddesses, and a reimagination of Bengali domesticity (Dr Sukanya Sarbadhikary (Presidency University))

2018-05-23 17:00: British South Asians during wartime and decolonisation (Dr Yasmin Khan (University of Oxford))

2018-05-28 13:00: Reflections from African Activists on Human Rights and Transitional Justice (Gacheke Gachihi, Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) in Nairobi, Kenya and Abdinasir Yusuf , Peace and Development Resource Centre in Garowe, Somalia )

2018-06-06 17:00: The Amritsar Massacre 1919-2019: writing the micro-history of a global event (Dr Kim Wagner (Queen Mary, University of London))

2018-10-03 17:00: The people and the making of the Indian Constitution (Dr Ornit Shani, University of Haifa)

2018-10-10 17:00: Connecting Ottoman Hijaz and British India: intellectual networks and legacy of Imdadullah Makki (d. 1899 AD) (Dr Moin Nizami, University of Oxford)

2018-10-17 17:00: Eve's mistakes? Islamic feminism and the pursuit of female religious authority in contemporary India (Professor Justin Jones, University of Oxford)

2018-10-24 17:00: Nationalism, development and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka (Dr Rajesh Venugopal, LSE)

2018-10-31 17:00: From Grand Tour to Deshbhraman: railways and changing attitudes to travel in colonial India (Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay, Goldsmiths, University of London)

2018-11-07 17:00: To liberalise or not to liberalise: an analysis of Pakistan's financial sector's role in the economy (Dr Natalya Naqvia, LSE)

2018-11-14 17:00: Religious freedom and public order: fundamental-rights lawfare and the construction of majoritarian national identities in Pakistan and Malaysia (Dr Matthew Nelson, SOAS)

2018-11-21 17:00: Islamophobia and securitization.  Religion, ethnicity and the female voice (Dr Tania Saeed, Lahore University of Management Sciences)

2018-11-28 17:00: Contesting courts: Islamic law in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia (Dr Ali Altaf Mian, Seattle University)

2019-01-16 17:00: A scientific life; E.K. Janaki Ammal and the patriarchy of science in the nineteenth and twentieth century (Professor Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex))

2019-01-30 17:00: The Dr B.H. Farmer Seminar: The registration of slaves and resistance in nineteenth century Jaffna (Professor Nira Wickramasinghe (University of Leiden))

2019-02-06 17:00: The Colombo Plan for aid to South and Southeast Asia: power, process and possibilities of the long 1950s (Dr David Lowe (Deakin University & Smuts Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies))

2019-02-11 17:00: 'Questions of Decolonisation'  (Adam Branch, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-20 17:00: The work of art in the age of digital reproduction: history, violence, self and (Dr Mishka Sinha)

2019-03-06 17:00: Moor “culture” in independent Ceylon: the 1940s establishment of the Moors Islamic Cultural Home (Dr Farzana Haniffa (University of Colombo & Smuts Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies))

2019-03-13 17:00: Love as understanding: marriage, aspiration and the joint family in middle-class Pakistan (Dr Ammara Maqsood(UCL))

2019-04-24 17:00: Benoy Kumar Sarkar – interwar internationalism, geopolitics, totalitarianism (Luna Sabastian (University of Cambridge))

2019-05-01 17:00: Jugaad Innovation: the implications for South Asia (Professor Jaideep Prabhu (University of Cambridge))

2019-05-22 17:00: A historian as petitioner: Ghulam Husain Khan Tabataba’i and the late Mughal context for colonial state-formation in eighteenth century India (Professor Robert Travers (Cornell University))

2019-06-05 17:00: The Economics of Religion in India (Dr Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge))

2019-06-12 17:00: White noise, séances and colonial linguistics (Professor Javed Majeed (King’s College London))

2019-10-09 17:00: Exhibiting South Asia: panel discussion (Dr Mark Elliot (Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge),Dr Devika Singh (Tate Modern) & Mrinalini Venkateswaran (Museum Consultant, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Trust and PhD candidate, Cambridge))

2019-10-16 17:00: The travails of a migrating concept - art in the crossfire between the 'religious' and the 'aesthetic' (Professor Monica Juneja (Heidelberg))

2019-10-23 17:00: From the courtroom to the courtyard - the public life of personal law in post-independence India (Dr Saumya Saxena (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge))

2019-10-30 17:00: Literary activism in Cold War India: the short story, the magazine and the world (Professor Francesca Orsini (SOAS))

2019-11-06 17:00: Contemporary Sri Lankan Anglophone writing (Dr Ruvani Ranasinha (King's College, London))

2019-11-20 17:00: Mayalee Dancing Girl, the East India Company, and the Sambhar Salt Lake Affair 1835-42 (Dr Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College, London))