Interview with Joe Cribb on the British Museum coin collection by Shreya Gupta
This interview discusses Joe's interest and approach in studying and curating coins, as well as the research being undertaken on the British...
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20 of 219 episodesThe Trial that Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence
Book talk with Ashis Ray The Indian National Army (INA) trials of 1945–46 have generally been given short shrift by historians in their cata...
Dr Shailendra Bhandare on the Ashmolean Museum’s South Asian coin collections
Shreya Gupta interviews Dr Shailendra Bhandare, Curator of South Asian and Far-eastern Coins and Paper Money at the Ashmolean Museum
Jan Lingen, President of the Royal Dutch Numismatic Society, on collecting South Asian Coins
Shreya Gupta interviews Indian coin expert Jan Lingen on his collection. In this interview Jan Lingen recounts his story of coming to India...
Interview with Robert Bracey on South Asian Coin Collections in the British Museum by Shreya Gupta
This interview discusses the afterlives of coin collections from South Asia held in UK museums today. In this interview, Robert Bracey speak...
Interview with Dr Paul Stevens on collecting Indian coins by Shreya Gupta
This interview discusses Paul Steven’s journey of collecting and researching Indian coins In this interview Dr Paul Stevens recounts his sto...
Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories
Pervez Hoodbhoy seminar given as part of the Modern South Asian Seminar series in October 2023 What had been a relatively small gap in 1947...
Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbor
Ajay Skaria - University of Minnesota, speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 1 May 2023. The figures of the neigh...
Pakistan: Political Economy of an Elite Captured State
Miftah Ismail Pakistan’s former Minister of Finance gives a lecture Many Pakistani colonial institutions such has the bureaucracy, the judic...
Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination
Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida, Tampa) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 13 March 2023. For q...
Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
Vikram Visana (University of Leicester) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 March 2023. Uncivil Liberalism st...
‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia
Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 31 Oct 2022 South Asia’...
Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin
Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University- London) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 Nov 2022. Luna Sabastian...
Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad) speaks at the Oxford Sout...
Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir
In 2019, the Indian government unilaterally revoked the autonomy of the disputed region of Kashmir amidst one of the harshest and longest mi...
Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)
Talk by Cemil Aydin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) speaks at...
Expulsion as Statecraft: Histories of Violence from the Asian Expulsion of 1972 to the Banyarwanda Crisis of 1982
Alicia Decker (Penn State) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality Between October 2 and Dece...
Insecurities of Expulsion: Race, Violence, Citizenship and Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transregional Uganda
Anneeth Kaur Hundle (UC Irvine) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality In this short talk, I...
Afrocentrism and the Indian Question: A Continental Reckoning with the Ugandan Expulsion
Shobana Shanker (Stonybrook) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality Most accounts of Idi Ami...
Researching South Asia: Kashmir
Round table discussion