The South Asian Studies Seminar meets on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. We are now moving into our new building, and will meet in the main seminar room on the ground floor of the Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road. The seminar provides an opportunity to study the region from a wide variety of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. The following programme, which is available for downloading by clicking this link, has been arranged for the Easter Term 2012:


April   25Dr Nandini Chatterji (University of Plymouth)
'Christian citizenship' - a political theology popular among Indian Christian leaders in the early Twentieth Century.
Held jointly with the Henry Martyn Centre
Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm
May   02Dwayne Menezes (Gonville and Caius College)
Acculturising subjects: Kanara Catholics and their religious and social institutions
Held jointly with the Henry Martyn Centre
Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm
May   09Professor Radhika Singha (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Waged work or war service: the short career of the Indian Labour Corps in France, 1917-1919
Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm
May   16Professor Hayden Bellenoit (United States Military Academy)
The cultural and service worlds of the pensmen of Hindustan, 1750-1900
Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm
May   23Professor Nina Laurie (Newcastle University)
Geographies of post trafficking in Nepal
Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm
May   30Pallavi Raghavan (St. John's College)
The making of the India-Pakistan dynamic: Nehru, Liaquat and the no-war correspondence of 1950
Seminar Room S1, Alison Rchard Building, NB: MONDAY 28 May, 5.00 pm
June   06Dr Daniel Grey (University of Oxford)
Creating the 'Problem Hindu': Sati, Thuggee & Female Infanticide in India 1800-1861
Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm
June   11Dr Rosinka Chaudhuri (CSSS, Calcutta)
'The literary thing': history, poetry, and the making a modern cultural sphere.
Please note - MONDAY 11 June

Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm