Centre for South Asian Studies

Contact Us The puzzle of unspent social welfare funds in India: Preliminary insights into the administrative state from the Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Fund

Film showing of Khel Khel Mein

The Injustice of the Carceral System: Reform, re-imagining or abolition?

11th Feb 2021 15:30 - 17:00

Warm bonds or functional transactions? Being neighbours in Delhi 1984 and Ahmedabad 2002

Stories of courage and friendship abound during mass civilian violence. Of people saving their neighbours and giving them refuge at a cost to their own lives.

Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India’s Long Decolonisation

Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India.

CSAS Work in Progress Workshop

Online event

Covid-19 and Precarity of Low-income Migrant Workers in Indian Cities

Indian cities attract a considerable number of low-income migrants from marginal rural households experiencing difficult economic, political, and social conditions at home who migrate in search of livelihoods and security.

‘Something has to be done’: forestalled futures in East Pakistan, 1947-52

On 21st February 1952 in Dhaka, police shot and killed at least five people participating in province-wide language protests demanding that Bangla be recognised as an official state language.

Transnational feminisms: shame, suffering, and moral personhood in Sri Lanka

Transnational feminisms: shame, suffering, and moral personhood in Sri Lanka

South Asia Week The Indestructible Gandhi

The Indestructible Gandhi

Online welcome event for all staff and students working on and in collaboration with South Asia.

Online welcome event

Work in Progress Half Day

CSAS events will culminate this semester in a half-day workshop dedicated to visiting scholars, post-doctoral fellows and new colleagues.