Centre for South Asian Studies

CHITrA Reading group: “John-Ghatak-Tarkovsky”

We will read and discuss the Introduction to Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s John-Ghatak-Tarkovsky: Citizens, Filmmakers, Hackers (2023).

The Fabrication of Homeland Security: authoritarianisms and policing across India and Palestine/Israel

CSAS Meet and Greet

We invite all CSAS affiliated students and faculty to join us in an informal meeting about the centres planned activities over the year.

Wielding a Double-edged Sword: Knowledge, Language and Representation in the age of Big Tech

A reflection on efforts to amplify the presence, knowledge, and narratives of the global majority—communities in digital spaces

India’s Quest for ‘Superior Babies’

With Dr Clemence Julien, Centre d’études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes

Ambedkar Memorial Lecture

This lecture unpacks the paradoxes within egalitarian claims, demonstrating how such claims often reinforce casteist state structures and perpetuate caste-based inequalities.

Recalibrating Indian Childhoods: Exploring Texts and Reimagining Theoretical Frameworks that Decentre Dominant Childhood Models

With Dr Anurima Chanda, Birsa Munda College, University of North Bengal & IASH Fellow

Trailing Spouses: Not just ‘tied movers’

For more-than-human space: Notes from shared multispecies lives in the Indian Himalayas

With Priyanshu Thapliyal, University of Edinburgh

Bazaar, State and Capital

With Dr Maitrayee Deka, University of Essex

Cultural Survival and Resilience against Assimilation: Lived Experience of Pashto Community of Kashmir

The first CSAS semester for this semester will host Dr Khalid Wasim, Politics & Governance, Central University of Kashmir & IASH Fellow.

“We Never Thought They Would Steal Our Gods. In One Day, Everything Was Gone”: Cultural & Natural Resources Trafficked from, through and to South Asia

“We Never Thought They Would Steal Our Gods. In One Day, Everything Was Gone”: Cultural & Natural Resources Trafficked from, through and to South Asia