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Incorporations: Capitalism and Collectivity

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Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 04:15pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Matthew Hull, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan Incorporation, a process by which a group of individuals is constituted as a legal entity, should be placed alongside commoditization as a major mechanism through which human activities are drawn into capitalist processes. In contrast to commoditization, which draws labor, land, and things into […]

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The Future of Capitalism in India

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Fri, Apr 24, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Prasannan Parthasarathi, Professor of History, Boston College Amit Basole, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Boston Discussant: Sanjay G Reddy, Associate Professor of Economics and Co-Academic Director of the India-China Institute, The New School for Social Research Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, […]

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The People’s Hero? Jayaprakash Narayan Reconsidered

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Thu, Apr 9, 2015 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

SAI Student Event Mircea Raianu, PhD Candidate, Harvard History Department; Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Benjamin Siegel, Assistant Professor of History, Boston University; former Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy for Area Studies; former Graduate Student Associate, South Asia Institute Anand Vaidya, South Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard South Asia Institute; former Graduate Student […]

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Language of Metaphysics, Language for Politics: Some Lessons from Allama Prabhu’s Vacanas

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Fri, Apr 3, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, Assistant Professor of History, Karnataka State Open University. Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies The seminar will focus on the vacanas of Allama Prabhu, the 12th century vacanākara […]

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The Silk Road to South Asia through Bangladesh

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Tue, Mar 24, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

 South Asia Without Borders Seminar Hasna Moudud, SAI Research Affiliate; Former Visiting Fellow, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School Chair: Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science This talk will examine the Tea Horse Road, from Yunnan tea country that travels through Tibet, India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh, which was once one of the […]

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“The Water, Forest, and Land Belong to Us”: Collective action and property in an Indian forest

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Mon, Feb 23, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Border Seminar  Anand Vaidya, SAI South Asian Studies Fellow Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University Q+A with Anand Vaidya: The politics of conservation In September 2011, a forest village in Uttar Pradesh named Ramnagar was destroyed. The village had been settled four years earlier by landless members of lower […]

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Art, Communities, and Museums

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Tue, Nov 18, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar S. Mukherjee, Director General & Secretary, Board of Trustees, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design Mr. Mukherjee’s presentation will include an overview of issues concerning museums in South Asia, […]

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As Hierarchies Wane: Explaining Inter-Caste Accommodation in Rural India

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Fri, Nov 14, 2014 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar James Manor, Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies This talk will examine certain key implications of a monumentally important trend, […]

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Dictatorship and Development: The Dilemma of the Left in Pakistan, 1950s-1960s

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Fri, Nov 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Atiya Khan, SAI Aman Fellow Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In the midst of a massive political upheaval in the late 1950s, when the ruling party, the Muslim League, was riven with an internal crisis and leftist groups had forged their alliances in the form […]

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Modern Ethnicities and Ancient Graves: The Deconstruction and Re-Analysis of the Protohistoric Cemeteries and Ethnic Origin Stories in Pakistan

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Thu, May 1, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

South Asia Without Borders Seminar Muhammad Zahir, SAI Aman Fellow; Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, Hazara University, Pakistan Chair: Richard Meadow, Director of the Zooarchaeology Laboratory, Harvard Peabody Museum; Senior-Lecturer, Harvard Anthropology Department The protohistoric cemeteries in northwestern Pakistan, commonly known as the Gandhara Grave Culture of Pakistan, have primarily been explained in terms of migrations and as […]

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