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… vs Labharthi? Given the centrality of welfare in the BJP’s electoral discourse, it is important to ask if there is a distinct BJP welfare model. If so, how do the two different narratives on welfare – the ‘revadi’ …

… by doctors and academic scholars as one of independent India’s major triumphs in the fields of medicine and public … health. However, though public discourse in contemporary India takes as self-evident the significance of AIIMS for … medicine, have animated debates on healthcare in India ever since. This presentation will focus on those early …

… Acting Chair for the spring 2025 semester during previous SASC Chair Sunil Amrith’s planned sabbatical. De’s permanent … first book,  A People’s Constitution  (2018), explored how the Indian constitution, despite its elite authorship and … everyday life and imagination in the year’s following India’s independence. His second book,  Assembling the Indian …

… of India and South Asian Studies said at a recent event in Mumbai, “Yale has quietly built up what we think is … Asian studies at the University of Oxford, will give a lecture on “ Writing the Anthropocene from the Indian … Words for the Heart by Maria Heim, out last year. The SASC will also host a number of other exciting events this …

… … World Fellows World Fellows 2014-2015 Parmesh Shahani (India) Parmesh heads the Godrej India Culture Lab, an experimental ideas space in Mumbai … a National Executive Member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s principal opposition party. Previously, he was …

… of Islamic musical production in Tamil-speaking South India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. … about the social organization of rāga-based music in South India. Most significantly, it forces us to reconsider the … of “classical Karṇāṭak” music in modern South India, which was molded by the politics and aesthetics of …

… of Islamic musical production in Tamil-speaking South India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. … about the social organization of rāga-based music in South India. Most significantly, it forces us to reconsider the … of “classical Karṇāṭak” music in modern South India, which was molded by the politics and aesthetics of …

… Ramachandra Guha , the preeminent historian of modern India, for a series of four public lectures from October 2nd … Guha delivered the prestigious George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture at Yale MacMillan entitled “ Personality Cults and … Amrith, Chair of the South Asian Studies Council, and SASC Student Fellow Daevan Mangalmurti. Their conversation …

… texts. Teaching in the premier public universities of India for the last 17 years, she is currently Associate … and Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India (Permanent Black and Seagull Books, 2010). Kaul has … the several Yale fourth-year students who wrote in or came to meet me during and well after the semester was over, …

… the course of Spring 2024, South Asian Studies Council (SASC) will host four alumni and former postdoctoral … Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India (Rutgers, 2022). Stories that Bind , which received the … and neoliberalism in Indian popular culture. Her lecture will take place at 12 PM on Tuesday, February 6 in …