Asian Studies Centre
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Asian Studies Centre
The Asian Studies Centre was founded in 1982 at St Antony's College and is primarily a co-ordinating organisation which exists to bring together specialists from a wide variety of different disciplines. Geographically, the Centre predominantly covers South, Southeast and East Asia. The Asian Studie...
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Interview with Joe Cribb on the British Museum coin collection by Shreya Gupta
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
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 o...
Dr Shailendra Bhandare on the Ashmolean Museum’s South Asian coin collections
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
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
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
This interview discusses Paul Steven’s journey of collecting and researching Indian coins In this interview Dr Paul Stevens recounts his story of gett...
Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories
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
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
Miftah Ismail Pakistan’s former Minister of Finance gives a lecture Many Pakistani colonial institutions such has the bureaucracy, the judiciary and e...
Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination
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
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
Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 31 Oct 2022 South Asia’s transiti...
Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin
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
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
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)
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
Alicia Decker (Penn State) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality Between October 2 and December 31, 1...
Insecurities of Expulsion: Race, Violence, Citizenship and Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transregional Uganda
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 s...
Afrocentrism and the Indian Question: A Continental Reckoning with the Ugandan Expulsion
Shobana Shanker (Stonybrook) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality Most accounts of Idi Amin’s expuls...
Rule by Fear: Conceptualizing Democracy and Authoritarianism in Pakistan
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
Rahul Sarwate gives the fourth presentation on the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.
सत्ता तुझी राणीबाई: Royals in Marathi Writings
Shraddha Kumbhojkar gives the third presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.
Like Milk and Sugar
Dominic Vendell gives the second presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.
Chand Bibi between Persianate cosmopolitanism and regional particularism
Roy Fischel gives the first presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.
Delusional states: Love, Citizenship and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan
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
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
Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series. This talk explores connections between ‘development’ and the p...
Rajput loyalties in the Mughal age
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
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
Unlike ever before in India’s history, domestic political calculations and audience costs dictate the shaping of the country’s foreign and security po...
Pandemic as event: thinking modern Indian society through a crisis
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...