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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

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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.

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

Elizabeth Lhost will moderate.

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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 Elora Halim Chowdhury

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Tuesday, February 14 | 12:15–1:15 PM ET | Zoom

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Cinematic media have long been important for remembering and memorializing the 1971 Bangladesh War of Liberation (or, Muktijuddho). They have also been important vehicles for critiquing and reconciling with war’s trauma. 

Analyzing Muktijuddho films through Black and transnational feminist frameworks, Elora Halim Chowdhury (University of Massachusetts Boston) considers the power and potential of human rights cinema. As Chowdhury shows, cinematic representations not only portray marginalized experiences but also put those experiences on a global stage. 

Film and media scholars Gwendolyn S. Kirk (Indiana University Bloomington) and Alka Kurian (University of Washington Bothell) will be joining the author for this discussion.

Elizabeth Lhost will moderate.

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

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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.

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Conversations on South Asia with Gregory Clines

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Tuesday, January 10 | 12:15-1:15 PM ET | Zoom

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The Rāmāyaṇa—the story of Rām and the kidnapping of his beloved Sītā by the malevolent Rāvaṇa—is one of the world’s best-known epics. Translated, transformed, told, and retold for centuries, the tale remains an important touchstone for religious—and political—life across South Asia and in the diaspora.     

Yet for all its popularity, most associate the epic with Hindu religious traditions. What sense, then, can we make of Jain retellings? What moral, ethical, and political imaginings do these versions offer? 

Analyzing three Jain texts, Gregory Clines (Trinity University) offers some answers in his new book Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies, 2022).

Join us on January 10 to learn more.   

Paula Richman (Emerita, Oberlin College) and Sohini Pillai (Kalamazoo College) will be joining the author for this discussion.

Elizabeth Lhost will moderate.

Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-clines

All are welcome to attend.

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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.

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Conversations on South Asia with Tarini Bedi

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Tuesday, December 13 | 12:15–1:15 PM ET

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In Mumbai, the black and yellow taxi is an ubiquitous symbol of the city, its hustle, its grind, and its grit.

Focusing on the hereditary community of chillia taxi drivers, who have sustained the industry for over a century, Tarini Bedi (University of Illinois Chicago) explores how lives, livelihoods, mobility, and modernity are bound together in tangled webs of economics, politics, kinship, care.

How have taxi drivers sewn the webs that bind them to the city? And what are the strings that stitch them together today?

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Deepa Das Acevedo (University of Alabama Law School) and Biju Mathew (Rider University) will be joining the author for this discussion. 

Elizabeth Lhost will moderate.

Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-bedi

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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.

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Conversations on South Asia with Elizabeth Thelen

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Tuesday, November 8 | 12:15–1:15 PM ET | Zoom

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How did diverse communities live and work in Rajasthan’s urban spaces? When did religion and politics create conflict? How did community and caste affect conflict negotiations? 

Focusing on the cities of Ajmer, Nagaur, and Pushkar, between the 16th and 18th centuries, Elizabeth Thelen (University of Exeter) explores these questions in her book Urban Histories of Rajasthan: Religion, Politics and Society (1550–1800) and calls on legal documents, state registers, and family archives to understand how diverse communities made urban society vibrant and resilient.

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Divya Cherian (Princeton University) and Usman Hamid (Hamilton College) will be joining the author for this discussion.

Elizabeth Lhost will moderate.

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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.

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Conversations on South Asia with Ishita Pande

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Tuesday, September 13 | 12:15–1:15 PM EDT | Zoom

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How did expanding ideas of childhood give rise to new forms of colonial governance? How did the need to protect children shape understandings of modern sexuality? And why did the child become a dominant political concern in the era of rising anticolonial nationalism? 

Looking at the ideas and ideologies surrounding the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929, historian Ishita Pande (Queen’s University) explores these questions in Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937 (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Now available in paperback (use code HIS1222 to receive a 20% discount), the book investigates colonial policies, local practices, and the gendered discourses that shaped them both. 

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Kristine Alexander (University of Lethbridge) and Susan Pearson (Northwestern University) will be joining the author for this conversation. 

Elizabeth Lhost will moderate.

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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.

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome to attend.