Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series Term Cards
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2026
Seminars to be held Tuesdays from 2 to 3.30pm in the Syndicate Room, St Antony’s College
Please note the change in venue for this Term
Full details - https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/asian-studies-centre/asian-studies-centre/events/
Week 1 Tue 13 Oct | Polly O'Hanlon (Oxford) Lineages of Brahman Power: caste, family and the state in western India, c. 1600-1900 |
Week 2 Tue 20 Oct | Ankita Pandey (OP Jindal Global University) Allyship through the history of Civil Liberties Activism in India |
Week 3 Tue 27 Oct | Malini Sur (Western Sydney University) |
Week 4 Tue 3 Nov | Gowhar Farooq (KCL) Organised Breakdowns: The Techno-Politics of Infrastructural Control |
Week 5 Tue 10 Nov | Mukul Sharma (Ashoka University) Caste, Religion and Hindu Nationalism in Indian Environmental Politics |
Week 6 Tue 17 Nov | Delwar Hussain (Edinburgh) ‘Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?’ The role of fiction in contemporary anthropology |
| Week 7 Tue 24 Nov | With the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College Reza Masoudi Nejad (SOAS) From Shiraz to Bombay: Diaspora, Qajar Architecture, and the Stereotype of the Iranian Mosque |
Week 8 Tue 1 Dec | Sahana Bajpaie (SOAS) Singing the Nation: Baul Traditions, Rabindrasangeet, and Rabindranath Tagore’s Oxford Lectures |
All are welcome
Convenor: Janaki Srinivasan
Enquiries: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk or 01865-274559