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A talk by Whitney Cox, Lecturer in Sanskrit, School of Oriental and African Studies.
“What Is a Record? Tamil Scribes in the Polyglot World of Early Colonial Madras”
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A talk by Bhavani Raman, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University. From the South Asia Seminar.Recent Episodes from Southern Asia Events
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“Situating the Subaltern in South Asian Medical History”
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