Modern and Early Modern South Asia, Transnational History, Comparative Colonialism, Islamic Studies, British Empire, Urban Studies in South Asia, Indian Ocean World, Urdu and Persian Literature, Postcolonial Studies
"Legal Resistance: Land, Colonialism and Muslim Personal Law Textbooks in British India, 1880-1913" (to be published in Italian translation), Quaderni Storici, Special Issue: Waqf in the Colonies, edited by Paolo Sartori, forthcoming in 2009.
"Review Article: Colonial Urbanism and South Asian Cities" (working title, solicited review article), Social History, planned completion January 2009.
"Review of Thomas R. Metcalf Imperial Connections: India and the Indian Ocean World (2007)," in Social History, forthcoming in 2008.
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
This seminar takes legal systems and the criminalization of social groups as lenses on modern states’ techniques for disciplining populations, reproducing structures of privilege, and articulating nationalist ideologies. In addition to looking from the perspective of states, we consider the ways subjects and citizens manipulate, modify and evade legal regimes. Moving from the [...]
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Colonial South Asia comprised much of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and was dubbed ‘the jewel in the crown’ of the British Empire at its height. The Subcontinent’s status as the most populous and lucrative colony of the world’s largest empire profoundly shaped the world of both colonized and colonizer there. This [...]
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
The South Asia region – contemporary India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan – has been a crossroads of diverse people, ideas and commodities for millennia. This course covers key themes and developments in South Asia between about 1000 and 1750. British colonial rule from the late eighteenth century [...]
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Taking oceans, rather than nations or empires, as key units for historical study focuses attention on the movement of people, ideas and commodities across space, and the political and cultural formations that emerge from these circulations. This course will accordingly consider several different stages of globalization from antiquity to the present along [...]
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Popular perceptions and representations of Islam and Muslims are often founded on ignorance and outright prejudice. Fundamental to these understandings are narrow and highly politicized notions of history, frequently accepted uncritically. Accordingly, this course seeks first to introduce analytical approaches crucial to developing nuanced understandings of historical and contemporary depictions of Islam and Muslims. In [...]
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
This course will provide an advanced introduction to South Asian history and historiography from the early modern period to the present. We will cover major works on key themes, including precolonial cultural relations, colonialism and imperialism, the politics of religious identity, anti-colonialism and nationalism, decolonization and partition, and postcolonial developments. Readings of classics [...]