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South Asia Research Cluster (SARC)<br />
by Barbara Harriss-White (EF)<br />
SARC activity consists usually of small events on a shoestring – films, book launches,<br />
discussion with and lectures by visitors, work in progress, graduate student workshops – or in<br />
providing a location for large outside-funded conferences which need seclusion, for example<br />
in recent years, Rohingya, non-democratic politics, and the criminal economy.<br />
SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
• Professor Imre Bangha (GF) organised an animated debate on the history of Indian<br />
textiles and a workshop on diasporic writing in Hindi.<br />
• Professor Iftikhar Malik (MCR) launched his book From Orientalisation to Securitisation:<br />
Pashtun History and Politics, and generated a lively discussion on Afghan-Pashtun politics.<br />
• Dr Ali Jan (JRF) organised an international workshop on long-term village studies<br />
inspired by the new book by Himanshu (who presented), Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas<br />
Stern, How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics, based on the village<br />
of Palanpur in North India.<br />
• Dr Afiya Zia (JRF and Pakistani MP), helped by Dr Maryam Aslany (MCR), organised a<br />
fascinating book launch and discussion on Faith and Feminism in Pakistan.<br />
• Dr Tara van Dijk (VS and Marie Curie Fellow) organised an international workshop on<br />
the vernacular government of South Asian cities.<br />
• Professor Louise Tillin (KCL) discussed her Leverhulme-funded research on the history<br />
of South Asian social welfare.<br />
REPORTS<br />
WOLFSON.OX.AC.UK<br />
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