South Asia Conversations At Cambridge University

In each episode we sit down with a scholar who has contributed something extraordinary to our understanding of history, politics or culture in South Asia, and get a deeper insight into their work. South Asia Conversations is a production of the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge University.

South Asia Conversations At Cambridge University

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Episodes (46)

Kunal Sen: 'India’s stalled path of structural transformation: what went wrong?'

Ammara Maqsood: 'The value of difference: Hindu Muslim encounters in Karachi, Pakistan'

Shannon Philip: 'A city of men? Youth masculinities and everyday gendered violences in urban India'

Gerard McCarthy: 'Outsourcing the polity: non-state welfare, inequality and resistance in Myanmar'

Rekha Bhangaonkar: 'Our water, but my water first: a case of groundwater management in semi-arid India'

Sumathi Ramaswamy: 'A strange kindness: largesse and learning in the age of colonial capital'

Benjamin Hegarty: 'Bureaucratic documents and signs of state recognition for Indonesian warias'

Cameron Petrie: 'Cities, towns and villages: living in the diverse environments of the Indus Civilization'

Ramachandra Guha: 'Beyond racial binaries: Western fighters for India’s freedom'

Arvind Rajagopal - 'From infrastructure to superstructure: a tale in three acts'

Jessica Namakkal: 'Unsettling utopia: the making and unmaking of French India'

Ines Zupanov: 'Christian missions in South India: hotspots of knowledge (17th-18th centuries)'

Asma Khan: 'Ammu: food to nourish your soul, from a life of cooking'

Jinee Lokaneeta: 'Policing in liberal democracies: legal violence and scientific interrogations in India'

Sunil Mitra Kumar: 'Counterfactual thinking and causal mediation: an application to female labour force participation in India'

Magnus Marsden: 'Intellectual Exchanges in Muslim Asia: Intersections of History and Geography'

Mallika Leuzinger: 'Photography and the politics of intimacy in India'

James Caron: 'Writing war from beyond war: material, imagination, and poetric landscapes in Afghanistan and Pakistan'

Nidhi Singal, 'Educating children with disabilities during the pandemic and beyond: insights from Nepal'

S. Sharada: 'South India and Southeast Asia: archaeometallurgical and iconographic explorations'