South Asia Conversations At Cambridge University

Michael Edwards and Philippa Williams discuss the effects and changing nature of the spaces created within and by social media in online public and private spheres in Burma/Myanmar and India.

The second series of conversations features content from the Cambridge South Asian Seminar, a programme of double-headed presentations held online. This episode features Dilip Menon of the University of the Witwatersrand and Samia Khatun from SOAS.

A second series of conversations features content from the Cambridge South Asian Seminar, a programme of double-headed presentations held online. In the first episode, Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford) and Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel University) highlight the effects of the climate crisis on aspects of South Asian civil society and politics. (Please note: due to a recording error, the first few minutes of this seminar are missing from the file)

The second of our conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya, one of South Asia's great scholars.  In this episode, Neeladri explains how political pressures are changing the teaching of history in India, and addresses the history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond.  The interviewers are the Centre of South Asian Studies' Dr Edward Anderson and Dr Partha Pratim Shil.  The South Asia podcast is a production of Cambridge University's Centre of South Asian Studies.

The first of our two part conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya, one of South Asia's great scholars.  In this episode, Neeladri explains how the teaching of history in India has evolved over the last 40 years, and the role that he has played in those changes.  The interviewers are the Centre of South Asian Studies' Dr Edward Anderson and Dr Partha Pratim Shil.