South Asia Colloquium Spring 2016
4:30pm • Thursdays • Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue JANUARY 28 Cows and Constitutionalism: Economic Rights, Religious Rites and the Politics of Beef in the Indian Republic Rohit De, Yale University FEBRUARY 4 (Re)locating Early Kashmir: Towards a New Culture Regionfor the Western Himalayas Shonaleeka Kaul, University of Delhi FEBRUARY 11 Purloined by Lawyers: From a Political Technocracy to a Judicial Technocracy Sandipto Dasgupta, Royal Society Fellow, Kings College London
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council. Generously supported by the Nopany Fund for South Asian Studies and the MacMillan Center.
FEBRUARY 25 Between Sharia and the Beloved: Textual Genre and the Many Faces of the High Persianate Intellectual James Pickett, Inter-Asia Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University MARCH 3 Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans Sangay Mishra, Drew University MARCH 10 Islam is the Ocean: Indian Muslim Travel Narratives in the Age of Empire Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University *APRIL 8 The Emergency and the Genealogies of the Postcolonial State in India Gyan Prakash, Princeton University *This lecture is at 12:00pm on Friday; Rosenkranz 241 APRIL 14 Beyond the Slum: Urban Youth and the Politics of Fun Sahar Romani, Singh Visiting Fellow, Yale University APRIL 21 Social and Religious Status of Medical Professionals in Ancient India. Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas, Austin
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