Announcement: Welcome our Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund South Asian Studies Fellows

The South Asian Studies Collective is excited to welcome Bryanna Entwistle and Sri Sathvik Rayala as Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund South Asian Studies Fellows for the 2021–22 academic year! Their biographies are below:

Bryanna Entwistle

My name is Bryanna Entwistle, and I am currently a third-year student at Dartmouth College. I’m double majoring in Government and History while minoring in Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages. I was born in Hong Kong and raised in both Mumbai and Singapore, so the region is close to my heart! On-campus, I’m involved in the Sugarplum Dance Troupe, do research on the Vietnam War with the Dartmouth Digital History Initiative, and have engaged deeply with the Center for Social Impact. I’m looking forward to serving as one of the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund South Asian Studies Fellows for the upcoming school year!

Sri Sathvik Rayala

Greetings! My name is Sri Sathvik Rayala, and I am currently a second-year student at Dartmouth College with a multi-disciplinary interest (politics, international affairs, economics, history, philosophy, and religion) in South Asian Studies. I am presently intending to double-major in “Government Modified with Economics and Philosophy” and “Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages” with a focus on South and Southeast Asia. On-campus, I’m involved with the World Outlook, the Dartmouth Undergraduate Law Journal, and the Dartmouth Political Times, and I’m also part of two off-campus academic reading groups concerned with the study of Vaishnava traditions and Manipravalam texts of South Asia. I’m eagerly looking forward to serving as one of the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund South Asian Studies Fellows with the South Asian Studies Collective for the 2021–22 academic year.

2021–22

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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 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.

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Wednesday, October 13, 12:15–1:15 PM ET

The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi

Abhishek Kaicker, University of California, Berkeley

Thanks to all who attended! Check out the webinar recording and transcript here.

Tuesday, Nov. 9, 12:15–1:15 PM ET

Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

Mytheli Sreenivas, The Ohio State University

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Tuesday, December 7, 12:15–1:15 PM ET

Branding Bhakti: Krishna Consciousness and the Makeover of a Movement

Nicole Karapanagiotis, Rutgers University, Camden

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Tuesday, January 11, 12:15–1:15 PM ET

Tata: The Global Corporation that Built Indian Capitalism

Mircea Raianu, University of Maryland, College Park

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Tuesday, February 8, 12:15–1:15 PM ET

The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social And Legal History of Muslim Worship

Sana Haroon, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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Tuesday, March 8, 12:15–1:15 PM ET

The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962

Kyle Gardner, George Washington University

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Tuesday, April 12, 12:15–1:15 PM ET

Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India

Jessica Namakkal, Duke University

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Tuesday, May 10, 12:15–1:15 PM ET

 Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan

Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Bowdoin College

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Date and Time TBA

Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937

Ishita Pande, Queen’s University

Registration link forthcoming.

Conversations on South Asia with Abhishek Kaicker

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Were Mughal Delhi’s city-dwellers docile sheep the emperor ruled over, or did even the humblest of them assert claims to participate in public affairs? How did politics, economics, and religion shape their claims?

Following events in the imperial capital from its founding to its devastation at the hands of Iranian invader Nadir Shah in 1739, Abhishek Kaicker (University of California, Berkeley) explores the interplay between popular politics and royal authority in 17th-century Shahjahanabad (Delhi) in his latest book, The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Join the author, in conversation with Tiraana Bains (History, Dartmouth) and Fariba Zarinebaf (History, UC-Riverside), to hear more.

Elizabeth Lhost (History, Dartmouth) will moderate the discussion.

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 12:15–1:15 pm (eastern)

Zoom | Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-kaicker

The “Conversations on South Asia” series is sponsored by the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund, the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program, and the Department of History at Dartmouth College.

All are welcome.