Tuesday, May 9 | 12:15–1:15 PM ET | Zoom Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-travers How did Mughal law shape Britain’s empire in India? How did imperial officials co-opt and…
Tuesday, April 11 | 12:15–1:15 PM ET | Zoom Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-sarkar For leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, mastering nuclear technology was tied to domestic development and national…
Tuesday, March 14 | 12:15–1:15 PM ET | Zoom Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-paik In Maharashtra, Tamasha is a popular genre of traveling theater performed by Dalits. Focusing on…
Tuesday, February 14 | 12:15–1:15 PM ET | Zoom Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-chowdhury Cinematic media have long been important for remembering and memorializing the 1971 Bangladesh War of…
Tuesday, January 10 | 12:15-1:15 PM ET | Zoom Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-clines The Rāmāyaṇa—the story of Rām and the kidnapping of his beloved Sītā by the malevolent…
Tuesday, December 13 | 12:15–1:15 PM ET Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/converstions-bedi In Mumbai, the black and yellow taxi is an ubiquitous symbol of the city, its hustle, its…
Join us for the next event in the “Conversations on South Asia” series featuring a discussion of Elizabeth Thelen’s “Urban Histories of Rajasthan” on Tuesday, Nov. 8 (12:15 PM ET).
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 | 12:15–1:15 PM ET | ZOOM Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-chaturvedi In Essentials of Hindutva, V. D. Savarkar (1883–1966) proclaimed that “Hindutva is not a…
The Conversations on South Asia series invites authors to discuss their recent publications in South Asian studies with scholars from within and beyond the field. Featuring experts in…
Tuesday, September 13 | 12:15–1:15 PM EDT | Zoom Register: https://dartgo.org/conversations-pande How did expanding ideas of childhood give rise to new forms of colonial governance? How did the…
Friday, May 27 EDT | 3:30–5:30 PM | Zoom Webinar Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/TerrorAndEmpire While the “forever war” gradually disappears from media headlines at home, the work of…
Tuesday, May 10 | 12:15–1:15 pm EDT (Zoom) How do politics and emotion intersect? How might our understandings of sovereignty change if we account for feelings and emotions?…
Tuesday, April 12, 12:15–1:15 PM ET (ZOOM) With all of the attention given to Britain’s interventions in India, France’s colonial projects in South Asia are often ignored and…
Tuesday, March 8 from 12:15–1:15 pm ET (via zoom) For decades, India and China have been uneasy neighbors, wrestling over shared claims to the region of Ladakh. From…
For those who weren’t able to join us for this event, here’s the recording and transcript. Enjoy! Transcript for Conversations on South Asia with Mytheli Sreenivas > >…
Looking for a class to add to your Spring 2022 schedule? Check out these South Asia–related courses! From Colonial India to Post-Independence South Asia ASCL 54.08 | HIST…
Tuesday, February 8 from 12:15–1:15 pm ET For centuries, mosques have been a site for Muslim worship, study, socializing, and so much more. They have also been hotly…
For almost a century, the multinational Tata Group has been at the top of India’s corporate pyramid. Producing everything from steel, to salt, to software, Tata—whose subsidiaries today…
Join us for the next Conversations on South Asia series event on Tuesday, December 7 from 12:15–1:15 pm (EST) to author Nicole Karapanagiotis discuss her latest book, Branding Bhakti.
Join us Thursday, November 11 at 12:30 PM (ET) for a public talk with Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociomedical Sciences and History at Columbia University. The…
Colonialism, Development, and the Environment in Africa and Asia HIST 75/AAAS 50/ASCL 54.07/ENVS 45. Taught by Douglas Haynes. Time: MWF 10:10-11:15, Th 12:15-1:05 This course examines the environmental…
How did reproductive politics become central to producing modern India? In her latest book, Mytheli Sreenivas (The Ohio State University) tackles this question and turns to the history of marriage, the family,…
The South Asia Studies Collective at Dartmouth welcomes our Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund South Asia Studies Fellows for 2021-22.
Featuring experts in history, religious studies, politics, and gender studies, this year’s series brings a range of regional experts together with disciplinary and interdisciplinary readers and respondents.
October’s “Conversations on South Asia” event features Abhishek Kaicker (UC–Berkeley) discussing “The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi.”