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Tue, 16 Jul 2013

2013 SARI Annual Public Lecture - Is India Shining? Reflections on India after Globalisation

This public lecture offers some anthropological reflections on India after liberalization. Despite high growth rates, social tensions seem to be rising in India.
Wed, 21 Nov - Thu, 22 Nov 2012

2012 India Update: Ideas from India

The Research School of Asia and the Pacific is launching an annual symposium exploring major themes arising from this part of the world.

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The Contortionist Turn: Ancient Guilds, Outcast Street Performers, and the Acro-Wrestling Roots of Haṭhayoga
From whom/where did the royal wrestlers get the idea to climb poles?

Poetic Supermen & Villains: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Masculine Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern North India & Nepal
This presentation will explore how memory, music, and masculinity were packaged and transmitted across time and spaces in a uniquely Maithili manner.

Right Hand, Left Hand: The Flexible Politics of Yoga
This talk explores the imaginative life of yoga, a privileged symbol of India in today’s world, in twenty-first-century stories.

The Art and Life of Gulammohammed Sheikh
Artist, poet, teacher and art historian Gulammohammed Sheikh (1937-) has played a germinal role in the development of contemporary art in India since the early 1960s.