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… The South Asian Studies Council welcomes to its weekly Colloquium, Srinath Raghavan, Senior Fellow at the Centre for … Bangladesh in 1971 was the most decisive geopolitical event in South Asia since the partition of India. Forty years … the event in the international history of the period can we explain the outcome and interpret its significance. … …

… loses a conventional war, if it is nuclear armed, then it can protect its core interests and safeguard its regime. They … they have not been used in battle for 72 years. Also, we have worried a lot about proliferation, but very few … them that it will provide for their security. Why has Iran been unable to acquire a nuclear weapon? Iran is a …

… children (or worse), the southern steppe as promising but still half-civilized, and Siberia as a wilderness. He has …

… of Ghazālī-studies has been shaken by the realization that Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 428/1037) and other philosophers had a …

… and written about early modern and modern history of Iran, Muslim world, the Middle East and the Persianate world … three decades. His principal book publications include  Iran: A Modern History  (New Haven: Yale University Press, … ‘Akka: Babis and Baha’is in the Official Records of Qajar Iran ,  Copenhagen and New Haven: Ashkaar Publishers, 2016);  …

… and chroniclers. On Friday Sept 21st afternoon, Yale’s Iran Colloquium hosted Dr. Farzin Vejdani, Assistant Professor of … primary research focuses on nationalist historiography in Iran during the late nineteenth- and early …

… abroad in Jordan. One of my favorite classes was an Iran focused seminar. In that class, I learned so much about … reporting and investigative work in multiple languages. We did it, and the experience was extremely satisfying. More … trying to establish a foothold, the biggest thing you can do for yourself, at least in my experience, is to learn a …

… country, 1% to 5% are traitors, [who are] boring in. So we must investigate their personal biographies clearly and … us feel most warm. I would request to visit my family. Can you allow me?” (p. 150) Two days later the regime was … 1. The opening of this course is the most important event. 2. Each of our comrades has been involved in class …

… and Rumi. I was especially fascinated by how these poets can find freedom within the boundaries of fixed form. So, for … epic, and prose. These are advanced reading courses, so we’re really rolling up our sleeves as we get into the … to do just that. How has it been to be in New Haven? I’m still not sure what the best pizza place is—I’ve heard that’s …

… to Emancipation in Central Asia As part of the Slavic Colloquium Jeff Eden, Northwestern University will present … and as engaged individuals. Despite diverse methodologies we grapple with similar questions about the limitations of … of our epistemologies, and the ways we could or should read our sources after February 2022 - against or with the …