Selected Modern South Asian Studies seminars from Michaelmas term now available as podcasts

Several of this term's Modern South Asian Studies seminars are now available to view, listen to and/or download as podcasts as part of the Asian Studies Centre series on the University's dedicated podcast website: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/asian-studies-centre.

The following seminars are featured:

Week 1: Global histories of hierarachy? Reflections from India on Caste, race and the Black Lives Matter movement with Professor Polly O'Hanlon (Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford) and Professor Nayanika Mathur (CSASP, OSGA and School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)

Week 2: Pandemic as event: thinking modern Indian society through a crisis with Professor Dilip Menon (University of Witwatersrand)

Week 4: Domestic audience costs and foreign policy making in India: recent shifts in the BJP's strategy with Professor Happymon Jacob (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Week 5: Rajput loyalties in the Mughal age with Professor Cynthia Talbot (University of Texas at Austin)

Week 7: Jeko Khere So Khaye (He who tills has the right to eat): 'development' and the politics of agrarian reform in late 1940s and early 1950s in Sindh with Professor Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway College, University of London).