Centre for South Asian Studies

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

Ambedkar and Ambedkarites Beyond India

Ambedkar and Ambedkarites Beyond India

The ‘Strays’ of the Empire: Street Dogs and Rabies in Colonial India

The ‘Strays’ of the Empire: Street Dogs and Rabies in Colonial India

Infrastructure of Loss: Environmental Movement and Disaster Memorial in the Himalayas

Infrastructure of Loss: Environmental Movement and Disaster Memorial in the Himalayas

Hijras in South Asia: Rethinking the Dominant Representations

Hijras in South Asia: Rethinking the Dominant Representations

Ladies First: Architecture, Anxiety, and Moviegoing in India

In this talk, Dr. Tupur Chattopadhyay will introduce the key themes and arguments from her forthcoming book, Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India (NYU Press, 2025).