Centre for South Asian Studies

Centre for South Asian Studies

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Annual Ambedkar Lecture
Figures of Surplus: Waste, Informality, and Caste in Urban Pakistan
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
Warm bonds or functional transactions? Being neighbours in Delhi 1984 and Ahmedabad 2002
The Injustice of the Carceral System: Reform, re-imagining or abolition?
Shot with ‘Minimum Force’: Ambedkar, Congress and the Bombay Industrial Dispute Bill of 1938
A case of school ‘dropouts’ among children from waste picking communities in Delhi
The Checkpost State in Pakistan’s War of Terror: Centres, peripheries and the politics of the universal
Waiting for the People: Anticolonialism and the Idea of Democracy in India
Online welcome event for all staff and students working on and in collaboration with South Asia.
South Asia Week The Indestructible Gandhi
Transnational feminisms: shame, suffering, and moral personhood in Sri Lanka
‘Something has to be done’: forestalled futures in East Pakistan, 1947-52
Covid-19 and Precarity of Low-income Migrant Workers in Indian Cities
CSAS Work in Progress Workshop
Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India’s Long Decolonisation
Gandhi and Intercultural Dialogue
Rethinking Pakistan: A 21st Century Perspective
Translation and the Missionary Archive: multilingual texts and linguistic memory
The Wild East – Criminal Economies in South Asia
To the Divine Through the Path of Beauty : An Exploration
Where the Whole World Meets in One Nest: the Contribution and Legacy of Rabindranath Tagore
Exploring majoritarian religious nationalism and Muslim minorities in Sri Lanka through a Decolonial framework
Bangladesh @50: Roundtable panel on reflections on Bangladesh its fiftieth anniversary
The Checkpost State in Pakistan’s War of Terror: Centres, peripheries and the politics of the universal.
Postcolonial Publics: Gender, Nationalism, and the Startup City in India
The Social Lives of Landslides: Moving Land & People in a Himalayan Valley
Life as Weapon: The Visual Economies of Tamil War Death
Marriage, Love, Visa and Video Calls
From Purging “Pariahs” to Pampering Pets: British Responses to Dogs in Colonial India 
Partition as Civil War
What do Dalits fight against when they fight for land in India?
If Hindustan will not care for Hindus, where will they go?’: imagined territory and constructions of Indian citizenship
Refusing to know their place: A struggle for truth and justice for enforced disappearances in postwar Sri Lanka
Re-conceptualising ‘feudalism’ in Mithilanchal – 200 years of agrarian and ecological change in North Bihar and the Nepal Tarai
Certain Faith, the Pious Home and the Management of Doubt in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India
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Silent Rebellions and Working-Class Dreams in Colonial India
If Hindustan will not care for Hindus, where will they go?’: imagined territory and constructions of Indian citizenship in othering Muslims
The Möbius Strip of Spirit and Matter: Abolition, slave agency, and missionary modernity in nineteenth-century Travancore, south India"
Technopolitics of decolonization: Building racialised hegemony in post-British Asia
Inventing tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal: Trajectories of lime in heritage reconstruction
CSAS Seminar: The 'neighbourhood school' in southern Rajasthan: mapping how accountability relations shape children’s learning in rural government schools
CSAS Seminar: Therefore, the, Fluvial Self, I am not: Climate Change in the Chars (river-islands) on the Brahmaputra River