The British Association for South Asian Studies is one of the world’s leading learned societies for the study of South Asia.
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May 29
BASAS Study Group – Diagnosing Democracy: Methods, Verdicts, and Histories from South Asia
University of Bradford
22 June 2026
Full details are available on our website, including the registration form:
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Contemporary South Asia & BASAS are analysing the state of academic freedom in South Asia. If you happen to be in Oxford on June 16, please join us @contemporarySA @BASASofficial @CSASPOxford @KingsIndiaInst @SAsiaLSE @guardian @ftindianews @TheEconomist basas.org.uk/news-events/rec…
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(Re)Claiming Space for Academic Freedom in South Asia
📆 16 June 2026
📍 Oxford Brookes University
⌚️ 9:00 – 11:30am (BST)
Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaimin…
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Jun 1
Thank you, @jaffrelotc, for your comprehensive introduction to this special issue.
My article is in this @BASASofficial special issue as well: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Hindu-Muslim violence is changing: till recently riots were instrumentalised to polarise the voters & help BJP win elections; today BJP is in office: pogroms, lynchings, bulldozers are the order of the day. A great special issue of CSA explains why and how tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Jun 1
📢Registration open!
Renegotiating Borders in & beyond South Asia
📍Durham University
📅18–19 June 2026
2 days of crossdisciplinary conversations on borders, mobility, coloniality, environment & migration with scholars, artists creative practitioners.
#SouthAsia #Borders
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May 29
*Our GEC Researcher of the Month is Saukarya Samad*
Saukarya is a PhD at the Department of History, University of Delhi. He is an alumnus of Presidency University, Kolkata.
View Saukarya's full profile:
basas.org.uk/gec-researchers…
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May 22
The BASAS Academic Freedom Observatory (AFO) has a growing page dedicated to press coverage of academic freedom in South Asia by the local media.
Today, we highlight the situation in Bhutan:
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@jaffrelotc @contemporarySA
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*Archive article of the week*
Nils‐Axel Mörner (2004), 'The Maldives project: a future free from sea‐level flooding'
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A major collective endeavor, our book on "Shared Sacred Sites in South Asia - Negotiating Coexistence and Belonging" (Hurst) will be released on June 15, 6 pm at Nuffield College (Oxford): you're most welcome to this event
@HurstPublishers @BASASofficial
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May 15
The BASAS Academic Freedom Observatory's new page is dedicated to press coverage of academic freedom in South Asia by the local media.
Today, we present the situation in India.
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May 13
*We are delighted to announce that the BASAS Book Prize 2027 is now open for submissions!*
Submission deadline: 30 June 2026
Full eligibility criteria can be found on our website:
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*Archive article of the week*
Mohammad Mozahidul Islam, Niladri Chatterjee & Muhammad Asiful Basar (2023), 'The final straw? Bhola cyclone, 1970 election, disaster politics, and the making of Bangladesh'
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*CSA Podcast – Episode 6*
This episode features a conversation with Dr Chandan Bose, exploring the intersections of migration, labour, and aspiration within the urban handicraft economy of contemporary India.
Listen on all major streaming platforms!
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Apr 29
The BASAS Academic Freedom Observatory releases a new tab dedicated to press coverage of academic freedom in South Asia by the local media.
Today, we present the situation in Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
We will focus on India next.
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*Archive article of the week*
Ayesha Siddiqi (2017), "'Disaster citizenship": an emerging framework for understanding the depth of digital citizenship in Pakistan'
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Apr 22
The BASAS Annual Conference 2026 will take place at @SOAS_SAI from 11-13 September
*The submission deadline is fast approaching – don’t forget to submit your abstracts by 30 April!*
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BASAS Annual Conference 2026 – Updated Dates & Deadline
The conference will now take place on 11–13 September 2026.
The submission deadline has been extended to 30 April 2026.
Apr 14
The BASAS Annual Conference 2026 will take place at @SOAS_SAI from 11-13 September
*Deadline for abstract submissions: extended to 30 April*
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*Archive article of the week*
Anweshaa Ghosh & Deepta Chopra (2019), 'Paid work, unpaid care work and women’s empowerment in Nepal'
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Apr 14
The BASAS Annual Conference 2026 will take place at @SOAS_SAI from 11-13 September
*Deadline for abstract submissions: extended to 30 April*
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Apr 10
📢 Released today by the BASAS AFO: the analysis by @jaffrelotc of the situation of academic freedom in India, supplementing the debates which took place on 3 Dec 2025 at the BASAS/KCL workshop on academic freedom in South Asia.
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