Month: March 2023

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Conversations on South Asia with Jayita Sarkar

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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 independence. To boost India’s nuclear capacity, Nehru argued for India’s freedom of action and challenged the inequities of nonproliferation regimes. By maintaining strategic ambiguity in India’s dual-use nuclear program, Nehru and his successors appealed to domestic audiences while asserting India’s rights on a global stage.

In Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2022), author Jayita Sarkar explores these angles to reframe India’s nuclear program within broader geo- and techno-political frameworks.

Join us to learn more.

Itty Abraham (Arizona State University) and Nicholas L. Miller (Dartmouth College) will be joining the author for this discussion.

Elizabeth Lhost will moderate.

Register to attend the webinar: https://dartgo.org/conversations-sarkar

All are welcome to attend.

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

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Conversations on South Asia with Shailaja Paik

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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 the everyday lives of Tamasha women, The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India provides the first intellectual and social history of Tamasha and its performers—who represent both desire and disgust in Indian society.

Drawing from interviews, recordings, and archival sources, Shailaja Paik (University of Cincinnati) shows how the sex-gender-caste complex shapes and defines Tamasha women’s lives and builds on and departs from Ambedkar-centered histories of caste oppression to focus on ordinary Dalit lives and struggles to claim manuski (human dignity).

Join us to hear more!

Rasika Ajotikar (SOAS, University of London) and Juned M. Shaikh (UC Santa Cruz) will be joining the author for this discussion.

Elizabeth Lhost will moderate.

Register to attend the webinar: https://dartgo.org/conversations-paik

All are welcome to attend.

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