South Asian Studies Program
“Wounds of Pyre” explores the lives of the Dom community, cremation workers historically burdened with the caste‑imposed duty of cremating the dead. The film highlights invisibility, generational trauma, and emotional resilience.
Join Dr. Malini Ranganathan for a talk on 'The Urbanization of Caste Power' for Rutgers Anti-Caste Awareness Month.
A workshop exploring how Jain communities shaped and navigated structures of governance in Persianate and Rajput political worlds.
This talk follows the complicated lives of the Los Angeles Jain Temple, from an object of imperial Orientalist display to a symbol of middle‑class American faith, and an object of pride for Jains in the U.S.
A screening of A Nice Indian Boy followed by a Q&A with Sunita Mani.
A comprehensive list of the events happening in April for RUACC Anti-Caste Awareness Month. Join us for a month of anti‑caste education, solidarity, and celebration!
This talk compares two Bangladeshi poets—Shamshur Rahman and Tarfia Faizullah—on the shared feature that both of them use foreign materials in foreign tongues to speak about the legacies of the Liberation War and about national history
The Program in Global Medieval Studies
Speaker: Thomas BurmanLunch will be served.All are welcome.rsvp gms@sas.rutgers.edu
The Little Magazine (TLM), the independent print journal of ideas and letters born in Delhi in 2000, was conceived as a cross-border cultural dialogue. It was focused on social concerns, new ideas across the world, art and South Asian literatures in translation.
Speaker: Subah Dayal
Lunch will be served.All are welcome.gms@sas.rutgers.edu
“In 1851, the teenage maharaja of Indore went missing. Rumors in the bazaar claimed he had been drugged by his vizier, or kidnapped by agents from Calcutta. The reality was more prosaic: He had gone on vacation. In this talk, I examine the travels of the maharaja of Indore and the Urdu-language travelogue his court produced from that journey to ask why this genre suddenly rose to popularity in colonial India, and what its authors and readers hoped to get from it.
Dr. Shreeyash Palshikar, university professor and second generation magician, presents an interactive performance and lecture that brings together the history and practice of traditional Indian street magic (Jadoo).
