Asian Studies Centre

Interview with Joe Cribb on the British Museum coin collection by Shreya Gupta

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This interview discusses Joe's interest and approach in studying and curating coins, as well as the research being undertaken on the British Museum's ...

The Trial that Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Book talk with Ashis Ray The Indian National Army (INA) trials of 1945–46 have generally been given short shrift by historians in their cataloguing...

Dr Shailendra Bhandare on the Ashmolean Museum’s South Asian coin collections

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shreya Gupta interviews Dr Shailendra Bhandare, Curator of South Asian and Far-eastern Coins and Paper Money at the Ashmolean Museum

Jan Lingen, President of the Royal Dutch Numismatic Society, on collecting South Asian Coins

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shreya Gupta interviews Indian coin expert Jan Lingen on his collection. In this interview Jan Lingen recounts his story of coming to India in his arc...

Interview with Robert Bracey on South Asian Coin Collections in the British Museum by Shreya Gupta

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This interview discusses the afterlives of coin collections from South Asia held in UK museums today. In this interview, Robert Bracey speaks about hi...

Interview with Dr Paul Stevens on collecting Indian coins by Shreya Gupta

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This interview discusses Paul Steven’s journey of collecting and researching Indian coins In this interview Dr Paul Stevens recounts his story of ge...

Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pervez Hoodbhoy seminar given as part of the Modern South Asian Seminar series in October 2023 What had been a relatively small gap in 1947 between Pa...

Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbor

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ajay Skaria - University of Minnesota, speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 1 May 2023. The figures of the neighbor and f...

Pakistan: Political Economy of an Elite Captured State

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Miftah Ismail Pakistan’s former Minister of Finance gives a lecture Many Pakistani colonial institutions such has the bureaucracy, the judiciary and...

Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida, Tampa) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 13 March 2023. For queries, pl...

Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vikram Visana (University of Leicester) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 March 2023. Uncivil Liberalism studies how...

Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vikram Visana (University of Leicester) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 March 2023. Uncivil Liberalism studies how...

‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 31 Oct 2022 South Asia’s transi...

Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University- London) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 Nov 2022. Luna Sabastian is Assist...

Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad) speaks at the Oxford South Asian I...

Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2019, the Indian government unilaterally revoked the autonomy of the disputed region of Kashmir amidst one of the harshest and longest military blo...

Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Talk by Cemil Aydin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) speaks at the Oxfor...

Expulsion as Statecraft: Histories of Violence from the Asian Expulsion of 1972 to the Banyarwanda Crisis of 1982

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alicia Decker (Penn State) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality Between October 2 and December 31,...

Insecurities of Expulsion: Race, Violence, Citizenship and Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transregional Uganda

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anneeth Kaur Hundle (UC Irvine) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality In this short talk, I offer a...

Afrocentrism and the Indian Question: A Continental Reckoning with the Ugandan Expulsion

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shobana Shanker (Stonybrook) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality Most accounts of Idi Amin’s ex...

Researching South Asia: Kashmir

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Round table discussion

Rule by Fear: Conceptualizing Democracy and Authoritarianism in Pakistan

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 17 January 2022. For queries, please contact ...

Rule by Fear: Conceptualizing Democracy and Authoritarianism in Pakistan

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 17 January 2022. For queries, please contact ...

Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 26 April 2021.

"Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, IISc) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 10 May 2021. For more informati...

A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 31 May 2021.

Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Durba Ghosh (Cornell University) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 June 2021.

"वासाड गावाचा धनगर राजा": Ecological Refugees in Ancestral Grass-scape (Historical life space and changing socio-economic dynamics)

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Saili Palande-Datar gives the fourth and final presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Mobilizing transregional indigenous identities on cross-sectional borders

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bina Sengar gives the third presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Persian Cosmopolis and World Literature in Precolonial Marathi Literary Historiography

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sachin Ketkar gives the second presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Circuits of interchange and influence: The 1979 Rucha issue on Urdu and Marathi modernist poetry

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anjali Nerlekar gives the first talk on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Education, Nationalism and the Native Body: the Pradnya Pathshala Project

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rahul Sarwate gives the fourth presentation on the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

सत्ता तुझी राणीबाई: Royals in Marathi Writings

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shraddha Kumbhojkar gives the third presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

सत्ता तुझी राणीबाई: Royals in Marathi Writings

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shraddha Kumbhojkar gives the third presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Like Milk and Sugar

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dominic Vendell gives the second presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Chand Bibi between Persianate cosmopolitanism and regional particularism

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Roy Fischel gives the first presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.

Delusional states: Love, Citizenship and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This talk examines the emotional and intimate logics of occupation, citizenship, and state-making in Gilgit-Baltistan, a contested borderland between ...

A Contrapuntal History of Hindustan

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Manan Amend (Columbia), gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series.

Jeko Khere So Khaye (He who tills has the right to eat); 'development' and the politics of agrarian reform in late 1940s and early 1950s in Sindh

26 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series. This talk explores connections between ‘development’ and t...

Rajput loyalties in the Mughal age

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Cynthia Talbot (Texas at Austin) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series on Mughal India and the Rajput. What did loyalty mean to wa...

Global histories of hierarachy? Reflections from India on Caste, race and the Black Lives Matter movement

11 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) and Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford) give a talk for the Modern South Asian Studies seminars on the Black Lives Matter movement. In...

Domestic audience costs and foreign policy making in India: recent shifts in the BJP's strategy

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Unlike ever before in India’s history, domestic political calculations and audience costs dictate the shaping of the country’s foreign and securit...

Pandemic as event: thinking modern Indian society through a crisis

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Conjunctures and crises reveal the fault lines of a society. Covid 19 and the resultant lockdown in India have brought back memories of the devastatio...

The Young and the Restless: Youth and Politics in India

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Book reading and Discussion with Gurmehar Kaur

The Young and the Restless: Youth and Politics in India

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Book reading and Discussion with Gurmehar Kaur

CSASP Event - The Political Crisis in Sri Lanka

18 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Disscussion on the Political Crisis in Sri Lanka

CSASP Event - The Political Crisis in Sri Lanka

18 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Disscussion on the Political Crisis in Sri Lanka

Freedom Behind Bars: Indira Gandhi's Emergency

03 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Public lecture by Professor Gyan Prakash (Princeton University) from 31 October 2018

Love thy neighbour as you love thyself?

03 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Alenka Zupancic's lecture on 'Love thy neighbour as theyself' from 6 November 2018 Reference to Christianity and to Christian tradition is one of the...

The Committee for Defense of National interests: An anti-communist, Buddhist nationalist movement (1958-1960) in post-colonial Laos

17 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Wolfson-Ford speaks at the 'Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism' workshop 28 January 2018.

Navayana Buddhism and Nationalism: Reading Dr B R Ambedkar

11 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Thahir Jamal Kiliyamannil and Manasi Mohanan Sushama speak at the 'Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism' workshop 28 January 2018.

The Production of Buddhist-Violence in Sri Lanka: A Reading through the Development of the Idea of Holy City of Anuradhapura in the Early-Twentieth Century

11 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Pradeep Sangapala and Nihal Perera speak at the 'Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism' workshop 28 January 2018.

Partha Mitter in conversation with Mallica Kumbera Landrus

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Partha Mitter and Mallica Kumbera Landrus speak at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Artifact and Memory

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sudarshan Shetty and Vyjayanthi Rao speak at the Art of Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.

Saleem Arif Quadri in conversation with Sarah Wilson

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Saleem Arif Quadri and Sarah Wilson speak at the Art of Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.

Amar Kanwar in conversation with Rattanamol Johal

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Amar Kanwar and Rattanamol Johal speak at theArt of Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.

Shahzia Sikander in conversation with Faisal Devji

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Shahzia Sikander and Faisal Devji speak at the Art of Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.

Subodh Gupta, Steel and the Subject of India

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Shruti Kapila speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.

“Dressed to Impress”: Indian art in the western gaze

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sona Datta speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.

Shahid Sajjad, Zainul Abedin and a Turn to Nature in Pakistan 1965-71

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Mariah Lookman speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.

An Indian Darkness: Notes on a Diffident Modernity

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Srirupa Roy speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.

Art of Independence, Day 2: Introductory comments

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Abhay Sardesai's introductory remarks at the second day of the Artof Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.

Art of Independence, Day 2:Welcome by Director of the Courtauld Institute

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Deborah Swallow opens the second day of the Art of Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.

Art of Independence, Day 2:Welcome by Director of the Courtauld Institute

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Deborah Swallow opens the second day of the Art of Independence Conference on 13 October 2018.

The Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Lecture: Event and Code: The Future of the Image, and of Nations

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Pinney gives the Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Lecture at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Mother Dearest: The Body of the Indian Nation

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Zehra Jumabhoy speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Gandhian Modernism? Nandalal Bose and the painting of politics

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Gautham Shiralagi speaks at the Art of IndependenceConference on 12 October 2018.

Bapu’s Miracle, the Quaid’s Boon and a Freedom to Remake

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Salma Siddique speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Mother India: Nargis and female stardom from 1947 to 1957

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Dwyer speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Mother India: Nargis and female stardom from 1947 to 1957

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Dwyer speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Who Counts and How? Independence and the Aesthetics of Caste

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Kajri Jain speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Who Counts and How? Independence and the Aesthetics of Caste

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Kajri Jain speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

On Lines of Control

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hammad Nasar speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Partition/Independence? Working with Contested South Asian Political Histories in Manchester's Museums and Galleries

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Merriman speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Partition/Independence? Working with Contested South Asian Political Histories in Manchester's Museums and Galleries

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Merriman speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Amritsar’s Partition Museum

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meghnad Desai speaks at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Art of Independence, Day 1: Introduction to the day and the theme of Conference

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Faisal Devji's introductory remarks at the Art of Independence Conference on 12 October 2018.

Art of Independence, Day 1: Welcome by Director of the Ashmolean Museum

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Sturgis opens the Art ofIndependence Conference on 12 October 2018.

The Failure of South Asian Regionalism

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lawrence Sáez speaks at the International Relations of India Seminar on 9 May 2018

Roundtable Discussion: The Future of Karen in Myanmar/Burma and the diaspora

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Benedict Rogers, Martin Smith, Richard Dolan and Justine Chambers speak at 'The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics' workshop on 15 Ju...

'Everything has changed' yet 'I have nothing': the trans-border lives of Karen women from Hpa-an, Myanmar

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Indrė Balčaitė speaks at the 'The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics' workshop on 15 June 2017.

History of Social Suffering and the Social Agent

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Vinai Boonlue speaks at the 'The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics' workshop on 15 June 2017.

Comparing the KNU and KIO ceasefire experiences

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

David Brenner speaks at the 'The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics' workshop on 15 June 2017.

Humanitarian Aid and the Karen

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Horstmann speaks at the 'The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics' workshop on 15 June 2017.

From Conflict to Ceasefire: Landmines as a form of community protection in Eastern Myanmar

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Cathcart speaks at the 'The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics' workshop on 15 June 2017.

Coming of Age in Hpa-an- Hope and Visions of the Good Life

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Justine Chambers speaks at the 'The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics' workshop on 15 June 2017.

Vulnerability, Poverty, Displacement and the absence of Interim Arrangements: Karen Communities in Ceasefire areas of Southeast Burma/Myanmar

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Schroeder speaks at the 'The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics' workshop on 15 June 2017.

Non-state welfare and the politics of abandonment: Northern Karen State in the shadow of the 1990s

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Gerard McCarthy speaks at the 'The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics' workshop on 15 June 2017.

Perinatal Depression in Migrant and Refugee Karen and Burmese women in Tak Province, Thailand

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Gracia Fellmeth speaks at the 'The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics' workshop on 15 June 2017.

The Karen, Education and the Diaspora

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Bob Anderson speaks at the 'The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics' workshop on 15 June 2017.

The Karen and the Gift of Education

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Pia Jolliffe speaks at the 'The Karen in 2017: Resilience, Aspirations and Politics' workshop on 15 June 2017.

Ending Impunity is the Key to Combatting Gender-Based Violence

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Naw Wah Ku Shee speaks at the 'Gender, Rights and Justice in a Transitioning Myanmar' conference on 13 November 2017.

Female MPs and the Protection of Human Rights

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

May Win Myint speaks at the 'Gender, Rights and Justice in a Transitioning Myanmar' conference on 13 November 2017.

Gender and Drug Policy

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Mai Hla Aye speaks at the 'Gender, Rights and Justice in a Transitioning Myanmar' conference on 13 November 2017.

Challenges and Opportunities for Women and Girls in Myanmar

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Janet Jackson speaks at the 'Gender, Rights and Justice in a Transitioning Myanmar' conference on 13 November 2017.

Law and Gender-Based Violence in Transitioning Myanmar

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Htar Htar speaks at the 'Gender, Rights and Justice in a Transitioning Myanmar' conference on 13 November 2017.

Constructing Female Citizenship: Education and Activism in Transition

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Maber speaks at the 'Gender, Rights and Justice in a Transitioning Myanmar' conference on 13 November 2017.

Gender and Health

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Aye Aye Chit speaks at the 'Gender, Rights and Justice in a Transitioning Myanmar' conference on 13 November 2017.

Gender and Education

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Aye Aye Chit speaks at the 'Gender, Rights and Justice in a Transitioning Myanmar' conference on 13 November 2017.

The Aftermath of Independence: Gendering Pakistani History through the Lens of Fatima

03 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Aalene Mahum Aneeq speaks at the "New Directions in Studies of Pakistan: Politics, Culture, & History" workshop on 20 April 2018.