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South Asia Without Borders Seminar Series

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Fri, Nov 2, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Harlem, Black Bottom, Tremé: South Asian Muslims in U.S. Communities of Color, 1890-1965 Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media, MIT Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Vivek Bald is a scholar and filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of the South Asian diaspora. […]

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South Asia Without Borders Seminar Series

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Fri, Nov 16, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Vernacular Political Economy in Colonial Bengal   Andrew Sartori, Associate Professor of History, New York University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Bengali agrarian politics of the late colonial period turned to a very great extent on debates over property. To make sense of the emergence […]

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South Asia Without Borders Seminar Series

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Fri, Dec 7, 2012 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Authority, Action, Criticism: Gandhi and Constructive Satyagraha Karuna Mantena, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies What is the structure of criticism embedded in Gandhian forms of action? The lecture considers the ways in which action and criticism can be […]

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South Asia Without Borders Seminar Series

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Fri, Feb 8, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW – To be rescheduled! History Off Center: Writing from the Margins of Empire Allison Busch, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University The historiography of the Mughal Empire (1526-1857) […]

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South Asia Institute Book Talk

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Thu, Apr 18, 2013 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

BREAKING OUT: An Indian Woman’s American Journey Padma Desai, Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and Director, Center for Transition Economies Department of Economics, Columbia University Chair: Natasha Kumar Warikoo, Assistant Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education Reception to follow Padma Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, […]

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Sooni Taraporevala in Conversation with Homi Baba

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Thu, Oct 25, 2012 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India – special opening event.   Internationally-acclaimed screenwriter and photographer Sooni Taraporevala will discuss her work with Homi Bhabha,  Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English, the Director of the Humanities Center and the Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost at Harvard University. From October […]

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