If you are in Philly today (Jan 29), do come to this exciting seminar with Nidhi (UC Santa Cruz ). This talk will be at Penn Museum (check the address), and not at the Center for the Advanced Study of India suite as usual. With UPenn Anthropology and UPenn South Asia Center.

Looking forward to discussing Priyasha's wonderful new book on Indian princely states and international law at this event.

This Thursday (02/08) at noon, Center for the Advanced Study of India Seminar will have Gautam Rao (Berkeley Economics) present his research on mental health in India. Do drop by. With Penn Economics Department and UPenn South Asia Center. For more: casi.sas.upenn.edu/events/gautam-…

This Thursday (2/15), Center for the Advanced Study of India seminar will feature Ranjini Basu (UPIASI and CASI visiting scholar) speaking about paddy cultivation, farmers, and ecology in Punjab, a region at the heart of Indian Green Revolution and agrarian politics. Do join us. casi.sas.upenn.edu/events/ranjini…

📢Join us for our next book launch with Priyasha Saksena Law at Leeds, Mohammad Shahabuddin and sarath pillai On "Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia" 🕘14 March 2024 at 1.30pm CET Register here: bit.ly/49yQkE0

At Center for the Advanced Study of India seminar this Thursday (2/22), I'll present part of my research on the history of federalism in South Asia, a talk aimed at deepening and defamiliarizing what we understand to be the history of this idea in South Asia. IN-PERSON only. Do join us. UPenn South Asia Center

This Thursday (3/21), Center for the Advanced Study of India Seminars will resume after spring break with a talk by Vinay Gidwani (University of Minnesota). He will speak about agrarian transitions and waste economies in urban India. Please drop by at noon. With UPenn South Asia Center More details: casi.sas.upenn.edu/events/vinay-g…

Next week's Center for the Advanced Study of India seminar with Sunil Amrith has been canceled. UPenn South Asia Center South Asia Studies Penn History

On Tuesday, I'll speak about the influence of German ideas on Indian federal thought at the Law(s), Institutions, and Cultural Interactions (DIIC) seminar at the Univ. of Tours. Thnx to Marc Goetzmann (Goëtzmann Marc) for the invite. For more & the link: icd.univ-tours.fr/version-franca…

Academy Award-nominated Indian director Shaunak Sen comes to Penn with his feted film All that Breathes. Come watch the movie and hear him speak on April 2 at 5 pm at this joint event b/w Center for the Advanced Study of India CARGC & Penn Cinema&Media. More here: casi.sas.upenn.edu/events/shaunak…

Join us Center for the Advanced Study of India tomorrow at 430 pm to hear Karthik Muralidharan (UC San Diego) speak about his brand new book "Accelerating India’s Development," examining the unfinished task of state building in India. With Penn Economics Department and UPenn South Asia Center. For more: casi.sas.upenn.edu/events/karthik…

Excited to host Anupama Rao Barnard College for Center for the Advanced Study of India seminar on Thursday (4/11). She'll speak about Dalit thought and its preoccupations in relation to Ambedkar, America, and much more. Join us! w/ UPenn South Asia Center Penn History South Asia Studies More: casi.sas.upenn.edu/events/anupama…

Please join us this Thursday (4/25) at noon for our penultimate Center for the Advanced Study of India Seminar this semester to hear historian Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan) speak about Swaraj and the demand for complete political independence in colonial India. Not to be missed! casi.sas.upenn.edu/events/mrinali…

Due to unavoidable reasons, we have to cancel Mrinalini Sinha's talk scheduled for this Thursday. Sorry for the inconvenience!

For the last seminar of the semester next Thursday (5/2) at noon, Center for the Advanced Study of India joins hands w/ University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School legal history workshop to host UVA historian Fahad Bishara (@TheNakhoda) speaking about a connected microhistory of the Indian Ocean. Plz note the change in location & join us!

If you are interested in legal pluralism in 18th c take a look at my short review of Christian Burset's An Empire of Laws (Yale University Press) and the book itself. Learned a lot from reading the book! frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/legal-pluralis…

A great joy to bring the life of a relatively unknown Philadelphia-based AIDS activist to the pages of History Workshop. Thnx to Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Cary Hutto (Director of Archives) for asking me to help process the Harry Adamson papers. Give it a read! historyworkshop.org.uk/science-medici…

New publication: How did British colonialism and Indian anticolonial nationalism affirm and repudiate the sovereignty and international status of the Indian princely states ? This review essay might have some answers LJIL doi.org/10.1017/S09221…

In the latest issue of Economic & Political Weekly, I write about the tension between academic and public history in India. I offer some ways to understand this tension in a productive way by examining the place of archives and methods in historical writing. Take a look: epw.in/journal/2025/3…