Past Events
Care Labor, Caste, and Race in Colonial India
CASI Seminar -In partnership with Penn History & Dept of South Asia Studies
Center for the Advanced Study of India
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
133 South 36th Street (Suite 230)
Philadelphia PA 19104-6215
Based on the award-winning book Colonial Caregivers, this seminar provides a cultural and social history of the figure of the South Asian Ayah, who took care of British colonial families in India, from the mid-1700s to the mid-1900s, and eventually also worked for elite South…
SAST Colloquium: J. Barton Scott
The Negro Our Aryan Brother: Race, Caste, and Hindu Cosmo-Nationalism in the Transcolonial 1920s
402 Cohen Hall
249 S. 36th Street
J. Barton Scott, Professor, University of Toronto
SAST Colloquium: Charu Singh
Epistemological Change: Sastra, Vijnana, and the Categories of Knowledge in Early Twentieth Century Northern India
402 Cohen Hall, 249 S. 36th Street
Dr. Charu Singh is Assistant Professor in Non-Western History of the Sciences, University of Cambridge.
SAST Colloquium: Emma Kalb
Ambivalent Intimacies: Eunuch Lives in Mughal South Asia
402 Cohen Hall, 249 S. 36th Street
Emma Kalb, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania
SAST Colloquium: Professor Anand Venkatkrishnan
"Black and Brown in Babylon: Alice Coltrane's Turiyasangitananda's Divine Revelations"
402 Cohen Hall, 249 S.36th Street
Professor Anand Venkatkrishnan is Assistant Professor of the History of Religion in South Asia, University of Chicago.
