“I can think of three things that have contributed to this flowering of legal history among South Asianists in the new millennium. First, there is the simple realization that case law is a kind of storytelling…”. Uponita Mukherjee speaks with Mitra Sharafi about what it means to study the legal history of South Asia now. The discussion explores new methods and the new possibilities (and challenges) in writing socio-legal studies of South Asia.
Read MoreEvery lover of Indian art knows this story: in 1947, in the immediate aftermath of India’s independence from British rule, six firebrands united in Bombay to forge a modern art for the newly free nation. They were the Progressive Artists’ Group (also known as ‘the PAG’). What does the PAG’s commitment to a heterogenous nation; a multi-cultural past have to offer us today? Art historians Karin Zitzewitz (KZ), Sonal Khullar (SK) and Zehra Jumabhoy (ZJ) unpack the loaded and inter-connected complexities of the modern and the secular given the trajectories of nation-building and cosmopolitanism in the art of those associated with the PAG.
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