Asian Studies Centre

The Asian Studies Centre was founded in 1982 at St Antony's College and is primarily a co-ordinating organisation which exists to bring together specialists from a wide variety of different disciplines. Geographically, the Centre predominantly covers South, Southeast and East Asia. The Asian Studies Centre works closely with scholars in the Oriental Institute, the Oxford China Centre, the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies (in premises at St Antony's). The Asian Studies Centre is host to the Taiwan Studies Programme, Modern Burmese Studies Programme, the South Asian History Seminar Series and the Southeast Asian Studies Seminar Series.

Episodes

Interview with Joe Cribb on the British Museum coin collection by Shreya Gupta

December 4, 2024 • 85 mins

This interview discusses Joe's interest and approach in studying and curating coins, as well as the research being undertaken on the British Museum's South Asian coin collection. In this interview Joe talks about his interest in Asian numismatics and his initial work at the British Museum. He discusses the idea and curation of the British Museum's HSBC Money gallery. We discuss his collaboration projects with scholars from South A...

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The Trial that Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence

December 4, 2024 • 42 mins

Book talk with Ashis Ray The Indian National Army (INA) trials of 1945–46 have generally been given short shrift by historians in their cataloguing of the Indian freedom movement. This book examines to what extent the trials had an impact on the final phase of India’s quest for independence. In so doing, it unveils that, while the Indian National Congress’s extended odyssey to win independence was essentially about a passive push-...

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Dr Shailendra Bhandare on the Ashmolean Museum’s South Asian coin collections

August 23, 2024 • 41 mins

Shreya Gupta interviews Dr Shailendra Bhandare, Curator of South Asian and Far-eastern Coins and Paper Money at the Ashmolean Museum

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Jan Lingen, President of the Royal Dutch Numismatic Society, on collecting South Asian Coins

August 20, 2024 • 51 mins

Shreya Gupta interviews Indian coin expert Jan Lingen on his collection. In this interview Jan Lingen recounts his story of coming to India in his architectural role and developing an interest in Indian coins and studying Indian languages. He talks about the people he met with and worked with on his coin collecting journey and his continuing work with Indian coins in the Netherlands.

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Interview with Robert Bracey on South Asian Coin Collections in the British Museum by Shreya Gupta

July 31, 2024 • 86 mins

This interview discusses the afterlives of coin collections from South Asia held in UK museums today. In this interview, Robert Bracey speaks about his past and ongoing work at the British Museum as the current Curator of Asian Numismatics. He talks about some of the research being conducted on the museum’s South Asian coins, particularly on the Kushan coin collection. The speakers discuss the services provided for visitors and sch...

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Interview with Dr Paul Stevens on collecting Indian coins by Shreya Gupta

July 31, 2024 • 37 mins

This interview discusses Paul Steven’s journey of collecting and researching Indian coins In this interview Dr Paul Stevens recounts his story of getting interested in collecting Indian coins and his journey of building his collection. He talks about the books he has authored, 'The Coins of the English East India Company: Presidency Series - A Catalogue and Pricelist' (Spink, 2017), and with Randy Weir, 'The Uniform Coinage of Indi...

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Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories

October 26, 2023 • 31 mins

Pervez Hoodbhoy seminar given as part of the Modern South Asian Seminar series in October 2023 What had been a relatively small gap in 1947 between Pakistan and India is turning into an ever widening chasm. Given the common origins of these two countries what essential differences led to the present situation? Or were the trajectories predetermined? After discussing historical similarities and differences, I will explore whether Pa...

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Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbor

June 16, 2023 • 51 mins

Ajay Skaria - University of Minnesota, speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 1 May 2023. The figures of the neighbor and friend are ubiquitous in Gandhi’s writings. While he himself assumes he is only reaffirming old figures, something truly radical happens in his writings (as in those of his sharpest critic, Ambedkar). Both write at a time when a modern commandment, so to speak, exemplified in the categ...

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Pakistan: Political Economy of an Elite Captured State

May 19, 2023 • 52 mins

Miftah Ismail Pakistan’s former Minister of Finance gives a lecture Many Pakistani colonial institutions such has the bureaucracy, the judiciary and especially the army have evolved into self-perpetuating elite institutions that resist change and seek to maintain the status quo. And over the years they have co-opted politicians, religious leaders, the landed gentry and also large industrial conglomerates and together they have neit...

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Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination

March 23, 2023 • 37 mins

Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida, Tampa) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 13 March 2023. For queries, please contact seminar convenor at saih@history.ox.ac.uk At the turn of the twentieth century, the global imperial order was in peril. In cities across the world, revolutionary factions emerged where nationalists deliberated radical, even violent paths to a post- imperial world. Vladimi...

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Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality

March 20, 2023 • 63 mins

Vikram Visana (University of Leicester) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 March 2023. Uncivil Liberalism studies how ideas of liberty from the colonized South claimed universality in the North. Recovering the political thought of Dadabhai Naoroji, India’s pre-eminent liberal, this book focusses on the Grand Old Man’s pre-occupation with social interdependence and civil peace in an age of growing cu...

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‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia

January 12, 2023 • 47 mins

Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 31 Oct 2022 South Asia’s transition from colonialism to independence in 1947 was undoubtedly one of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. Not surprisingly perhaps, its early postcolonial years have come to exercise a great pull for a range of scholars, who explore this key period, on the one hand, to as...

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Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin

January 12, 2023 • 55 mins

Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University- London) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 Nov 2022. Luna Sabastian is Assistant Professor in History at Northeastern University - London. Prior to assuming this position, she held a postdoc at Cambridge University, from where she also received her PhD in 2020. Her work focuses on modern Indian political thought. She is writing a book titled ‘Indian Fascism?’....

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Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India

September 23, 2022 • 34 mins

Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 16 May 2022. For queries, please contact seminar convenors at saih@history Hasyarnava or The Ocean of Mirth, a medieval Sanskrit political satire, delineates two compelling themes that require serious consideration. First, the Indic traditions underline ...

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Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir

September 23, 2022 • 37 mins

In 2019, the Indian government unilaterally revoked the autonomy of the disputed region of Kashmir amidst one of the harshest and longest military blockades and communications blackouts in history of the region In 2019, the Indian government unilaterally revoked the autonomy of the disputed region of Kashmir amidst one of the harshest and longest military blockades and communications blackouts in history of the region. While the mo...

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Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)

September 22, 2022 • 50 mins

Talk by Cemil Aydin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 6 June 2022. For queries, please contact seminar convenors at saih@history.ox.ac.uk.

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Expulsion as Statecraft: Histories of Violence from the Asian Expulsion of 1972 to the Banyarwanda Crisis of 1982

June 27, 2022 • 20 mins

Alicia Decker (Penn State) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality Between October 2 and December 31, 1982, nearly 80,000 Banyarwanda – most of whom were citizens of Uganda – were violently expelled from their homes by state operatives in Mbarara and Bushenyi Districts. Approximately half fled to neighboring Rwanda, while the rest crowded into existing refugee settlements in the south...

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Insecurities of Expulsion: Race, Violence, Citizenship and Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transregional Uganda

June 27, 2022 • 21 mins

Anneeth Kaur Hundle (UC Irvine) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality In this short talk, I offer a synopsis of my forthcoming book and its core interventions. Namely, I recenter contemporary Uganda within scholarly discussion on the 1972 Asian expulsion. I assess the exceptional ways in which the 1972 Asian expulsion is understood within global knowledge formations, arguing that exp...

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Afrocentrism and the Indian Question: A Continental Reckoning with the Ugandan Expulsion

June 27, 2022 • 22 mins

Shobana Shanker (Stonybrook) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality Most accounts of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Asians from Uganda in 1972 assume that African leaders and the Organization of African Unity were largely silent or unmoved to action. This interpretation assumes that Africans understood the Asian expulsion as a political problem—by contrast, I argue that Africans understood t...

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Researching South Asia: Kashmir

January 27, 2022 • 89 mins

Round table discussion

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Episodes

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Dr Shailendra Bhandare on the Ashmolean Museum’s South Asian coin collections

Jan Lingen, President of the Royal Dutch Numismatic Society, on collecting South Asian Coins

Interview with Robert Bracey on South Asian Coin Collections in the British Museum by Shreya Gupta

Interview with Dr Paul Stevens on collecting Indian coins by Shreya Gupta

Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories

Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbor

Pakistan: Political Economy of an Elite Captured State

Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination

Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality

‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia

Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin

Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India

Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir

Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)

Expulsion as Statecraft: Histories of Violence from the Asian Expulsion of 1972 to the Banyarwanda Crisis of 1982

Insecurities of Expulsion: Race, Violence, Citizenship and Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transregional Uganda

Afrocentrism and the Indian Question: A Continental Reckoning with the Ugandan Expulsion

Researching South Asia: Kashmir

Popular Podcasts

Interview with Joe Cribb on the British Museum coin collection by Shreya Gupta

The Trial that Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence