sarath pillai
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Teach South Asian history @SMU | Global history of federalism in S. Asia | Indian Princely States | Previously @CASIPenn PhD @UChicago |Archive enthusiast | 🚴
Dallas, TX
Joined March 2021
New publication: How did British colonialism and Indian anticolonial nationalism affirm and repudiate the sovereignty and international status of the Indian princely states ? This review essay might have some answers @LJIL_Leiden
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From international to imperial: The Indian princely states, international law, and the ends of empire in South Asia
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A great joy to bring the life of a relatively unknown Philadelphia-based AIDS activist to the pages of @HistoryWO. Thnx to @historicalpa and Cary Hutto (Director of Archives) for asking me to help process the Harry Adamson papers. Give it a read!
historyworkshop.org.uk
What does a pandemic look like when remembered through someone's personal archive? Sarath Pillai reflects on the value of dream diaries and insurance forms in the history of the AIDS pandemic.
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If you are interested in legal pluralism in 18th c take a look at my short review of @cburset's An Empire of Laws (@yalepress) and the book itself. Learned a lot from reading the book!
frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk
In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Sarath Pillai reviews Christian Burset's new book, An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy (Stanford University Press, 2023)
In this week’s #Frontiers 📚A Good Read section, Dr Sarath Pillai @i_sarathpillai reviews Christian Burset's new book, An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy (Stanford University Press, 2023). Read the full post here:. 📖
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For the last seminar of the semester next Thursday (5/2) at noon, @CASIPenn joins hands w/ @pennlaw legal history workshop to host @UVA historian Fahad Bishara (@TheNakhoda) speaking about a connected microhistory of the Indian Ocean. Plz note the change in location & join us!
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Due to unavoidable reasons, we have to cancel Mrinalini Sinha's talk scheduled for this Thursday. Sorry for the inconvenience!.
Please join us this Thursday (4/25) at noon for our penultimate @CASIPenn Seminar this semester to hear historian Mrinalini Sinha (@UMich) speak about Swaraj and the demand for complete political independence in colonial India. Not to be missed!
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Excited to host Anupama Rao @BarnardCollege for @CASIPenn seminar on Thursday (4/11). She'll speak about Dalit thought and its preoccupations in relation to Ambedkar, America, and much more. Join us! w/ @SouthAsiaCenter @PennHistory @SouthAsiaPenn More:Â
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Join us @CASIPenn tomorrow at 430 pm to hear @karthik_econ (@UCSanDiego) speak about his brand new book "Accelerating India’s Development," examining the unfinished task of state building in India. With @penneconomics and @SouthAsiaCenter. For more:
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Academy Award-nominated Indian director Shaunak Sen comes to @Penn with his feted film All that Breathes. Come watch the movie and hear him speak on April 2 at 5 pm at this joint event b/w @CASIPenn @AnnenbergCARGC & @penncinemamedia. More here:
Please join us for a screening of the Academy Award-nominated film @allthatbreathes and Q&A with Director Shaunak Sen on April 2 at 5pm (in partnership with @AnnenbergCARGC & @penncinemamedia) Read More & Register:
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On Tuesday, I'll speak about the influence of German ideas on Indian federal thought at the Law(s), Institutions, and Cultural Interactions (DIIC) seminar at the Univ. of Tours. Thnx to Marc Goetzmann (@bearly_scholar) for the invite. For more & the link:
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Next week's @CASIPenn seminar with @sunilamrith has been canceled. @SouthAsiaCenter @SouthAsiaPenn @PennHistory.
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This Thursday (3/21), @CASIPenn Seminars will resume after spring break with a talk by Vinay Gidwani (@UMNews). He will speak about agrarian transitions and waste economies in urban India. Please drop by at noon. With @SouthAsiaCenter More details:Â
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RT @GVAGrad_GGC: 📢Join us for our next book launch with Priyasha Saksena @Law_Leeds, @MShahabuddin77 and @i_sarathpillai .On "Sovereignty,….
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At @CASIPenn seminar this Thursday (2/22), I'll present part of my research on the history of federalism in South Asia, a talk aimed at deepening and defamiliarizing what we understand to be the history of this idea in South Asia. IN-PERSON only. Do join us. @SouthAsiaCenter
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This Thursday (2/15), @CASIPenn seminar will feature @ranjini_basu (@upiasi and CASI visiting scholar) speaking about paddy cultivation, farmers, and ecology in Punjab, a region at the heart of Indian Green Revolution and agrarian politics. Do join us.
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This Thursday (02/08) at noon, @CASIPenn Seminar will have Gautam Rao (@berkeleyecon) present his research on mental health in India. Do drop by. With @penneconomics and @SouthAsiaCenter. For more:
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Looking forward to discussing Priyasha's wonderful new book on Indian princely states and international law at this event.
Save the date for this upcoming virtual book launch! With Priyasha Saksena @Law_Leeds, @MShahabuddin77 and @i_sarathpillai.On 14 March 2024 at 1.30pm CET.Register here:
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If you are in Philly today (Jan 29), do come to this exciting seminar with @NidhiMahajan25 (@ucsc ). This talk will be at Penn Museum (check the address), and not at the @CASIPenn suite as usual. With @UPennAnth and @SouthAsiaCenter.
Don't miss @NidhiMahajan25 speaking on "A View from the Dhow" on Jan 29 at Penn's Department of Anthropology! (in partnership with @UPennAnth and @SouthAsiaCenter) Read more:
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Next Thursday (1/25), we will start the @CASIPenn spring seminar series with a presentation by my colleague @amrita_kurian on tobacco production and the problem of quality in postcolonial markets. Do drop by the good old CASI suite. For more
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