CSAS South Asian Studies in Edinburgh

Follow us to learn more about South Asian interdisciplinary study at the University of Edinburgh. Co-Directors: Moyukh Chatterjee & Rahul Ranjan.

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Just announced!

Join Dr Saeed Ahmad, Assistant Professor, JINDAL University, India for the seminar - The Sacred and the Civic: Monumentality and Urban Space

5 Nov, 12.30 - 2pm, CMB

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Seminar Announcement

The Himalayan Flood Disaster of 2026: What Happened, Why It Matters and What It Tells Us About a Changing Himalaya - co-organised with the the Britain Nepal Academic Council.

3 Sep, 1130-1300, CMB or online

Full details here: https://t.co/Qfo4J1rTaG

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Event Announcement!

“Why We Left Home”: Youth, Marriage and Inter-caste-religious Intimacies in Rural India, with Disha K R

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TOMORROW!

Singhvi Keynote Lecture - Decolonizing the University: A View from India, with Prof Amita Baviskar.

19 May, 5pm, Edinburgh Climate Change Institute

Register: https://t.co/BBJnIWwiNQ

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Next week!

Singhvi Keynote Lecture - Decolonizing the University: A View from India, with Prof Amita Baviskar.

19 May, 5pm, Edinburgh Climate Change Institute

Register: https://t.co/BBJnIWvKYi

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Event reminder!

Singhvi Keynote Lecture - Decolonizing the University: A View from India, with Prof Amita Baviskar.

19 May, 5pm, Edinburgh Climate Change Institute

Register: https://t.co/BBJnIWwiNQ

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TODAY!
The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them

4 May, 1pm, Room 1.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute

Registration not required.

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Next week!

The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them

4 May, Room 1.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 1pm

Registration not required.

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Event reminder!

Singhvi Keynote Lecture - Decolonizing the University: A View from India, with Prof Amita Baviskar.

19 May, 5pm, Edinburgh Climate Change Institute

Register: https://t.co/BBJnIWvKYi

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ICYMI!

Join us on 4th May for:

The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them

Room 1.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 1pm

Registration not required.

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Event announcement!

Singhvi Keynote Lecture - Decolonizing the University: A View from India, with Prof Amita Baviskar.

19 May, 5pm, Edinburgh Climate Change Institute

Register: https://t.co/BBJnIWvKYi

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Join us on 4th May for:

The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them

Room 1.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 1pm

Registration not required.

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📢Reminder

CSAS Seminar - Obligation at the Tail-End: Inhabiting Abandonment and Knowing with the Earth in Sindh

Tuesday 17 March, 12.30pm – 2pm, Violet Laidlaw Room

Registration not required.

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Event announcement

From Strike to Silence: Translation, Retranslation, and the Afterlife of Labour in Bombay

Part of the Translation Studies Research Seminar Series, co-badged by CSAS

18 March, 4.10-6pm, G.04, 50 George Square

Registration not required

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Event announcement

Obligation at the Tail-End: Inhabiting Abandonment and Knowing with the Earth in Sindh, with Ayesha Siddiqi, University of Cambridge.

17 March, 12.30-2pm, Violet Laidlaw Room. Registration not required.

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Join us tomorrow for:

Living with Toxic Development: Shipbreaking and Greenwashing in Bangladesh with Dr Camelia Dewan, Uppsala University.

12.30pm - 2pm, Violet Laidlaw Room

Registration not required.

Full info: https://t.co/S5MkqM7mT8

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Join us on 3 February for:

Living with Toxic Development: Shipbreaking and Greenwashing in Bangladesh with Dr Camelia Dewan, Uppsala University

Registration not required.

Full info: https://t.co/S5MkqM6P3A

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Join us TODAY for our first seminar of 2026.

The Seed and the Well: Ecologies of Risk in Rural India, with Dr Tanya Matthan, LSE.

20 Jan, 12.30 - 2pm, Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building.

No registration necessary. https://t.co/cu6EmipPcW

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Join us for our first seminar of 2026.

The Seed and the Well: Ecologies of Risk in Rural India, with Dr Tanya Matthan, LSE.

20 Jan, 12.30 - 2pm, Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building.

No registration necessary.

https://t.co/cu6EmipPcW

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There is still time to register!

Join us on 2 Dec for the Ambedkar Lecture - Life, Labour, and Death: A Cartography of Caste under Racial Capitalism, with Dr Srilata Sircar (King's India Institute).

Register here: https://t.co/hBUx4QGEGi