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We are delighted to share that Professor @davidgellner has been elected a 2024 Fellow at the The British Academy! This prestigious fellowship is a recognition of Prof Gellner's contributions to anthropological research. Congratulations! 👏 More: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-briti…

First up this characteristically generous review by fellow anthropologist Radhika Govindrajan in Conservation&Society who gets both the politics of place and the wider anthropological project like nobody else. journals.lww.com/coas/fulltext/…

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My book finally has a cover!😁 Cover illustration by the insanely talented Mahima Jaju. And generous endorsements by Mukulika Banerjee, Jaffrelot Christophe, and Rahul Verma. Should be in-stock by the end of September! Big thanks to Anwesha, Saniya Puri, Qudsiya Ahmed & their team.

🥁New article! Notice how 🇮🇳 rarely explicitly criticizes or even names 🇨🇳 in diplomatic speech? Well Raphaëlle Khan & I have a theory for that. Our new BJPIR article draws on language pragmatics to argue that 🇮🇳 often signals via a mode of indirect speech called "implicature"

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This is a fascinating paper by Kate Sullivan de Estrada et al on India's signalling: "to avoid provoking China, build supportive but caveated relations with the United States." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… It is a clever paper, with layers underneath the text that interested readers can unpeel.

Looking forward to our seminar series this term!

We are hugely looking forward to welcoming Noreen Masud to Oxford next week to discuss her book, 'A Flat Place'. Co-hosted with @EnvHumsOxford TORCH Oxford

We are looking forward to hosting Kunal Purohit on November 13 for a book talk. 5 pm, Nissan Lecture Theatre St Antony's College, University of Oxford. All welcome! southasia.ox.ac.uk/event/csasp-bo…

Our new colleague, Prof Janaki Srinivasan, is giving a talk on 'the political lives of information in India' on Tuesday, November 5 at 2 pm St Antony's College, University of Oxford . Not to be missed! Oxford Internet Institute southasia.ox.ac.uk/event/msas-sem…

Next Tuesday (5 Nov) at 2pm St Antony's College, University of Oxford the next MSAS Seminar CSASP Oxford Uni : The political lives of Information: Information and invisibilisation in digital India with Janaki Srinivasan

Next Tuesday's MSAS Seminar CSASP Oxford Uni (12 November) 2pm :St Antony's College, University of Oxford Surajkumar Thube (Oxford) will talk on Radical Futures or Pristine Pasts?: The Afterlives of Anti-Casteism in Western India

Next Tuesday's (19 Nov) 2pm MSAS Seminar CSASP Oxford Uni Omer Aijazi will present his book: Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir Please note this will take place at 11 Bevington Road, not St Antony's

📢CSASP Oxford Uni, Oxford School of Global & Area Studies in collaboration with the ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation, offers three visiting fellowships for those based in Pakistan. Deadline: December 16, 2024 southasia.ox.ac.uk/academic-visit… Nayanika Mathur Kate Sullivan de Estrada Asian Studies Centre

Next week (Tue 26 Nov) the MASA Seminar CSASP Oxford Uni will be presented by Sandhya Fuchs a book talk: Hate Crime law as Meliorst Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan St Antony's College, University of Oxford

The last of this terms MSAS Seminars CSASP Oxford Uni next Tuesday (3 Dec) at 2pm St Antony's College, University of Oxford Sandipto Dasgupta presents, Legalising the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony All welcome

📣 New scholarships announced for the DPhil in Area Studies We’re very pleased to offer two departmental awards of £60,000 for incoming students to the DPhil in Area Studies. Application deadline: Jan 28 2025 Find out more: areastudies.web.ox.ac.uk/article/new-sc… #OxfordScholarships