South Asia
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SHARP Grant Report 2024
Securing the Research Development BIPOC Scholar Grant to explore Attia Hosain’s life was a fantastic opportunity to learn more. My research plan was to use my funding to visit two…
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Tyler W. Williams. If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi.
This book investigates how examining Hindi manuscripts as material texts rewrites the literary historiography of late medieval and early modern north India.
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SHARP 2025 Rochester Conference Reports: Part I
We are thrilled to share with you a number of short reports on the SHARP 2025 conference that took place in Rochester, NY July 7-10. Read below to learn more…
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Revamping Hobson-Jobson
The Dictionary Project Assignment is from my upper-division class “Novel in India.” One of the university’s few offerings on South Asia, the class attracts English, History, and Anthropology, and Political…
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Charles V. Reed. Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860-1911
Charles V. Reed. Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860-1911. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. 221p. ISBN 9780719097010. £70.00 (hardcover). If you enjoyed Paul Scott’s…
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Catherine Pickett. Bibliography of the East India Company: Books, Pamphlets and Other Material Printed Between 1600 and 1785
Catherine Pickett. Bibliography of the East India Company: Books, Pamphlets and Other Material Printed Between 1600 and 1785. London: The British Library, 2011. xvi, 304 p. ISBN 9780712358446. £50.00 (hardback).…