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JOB VACANCY: Associate Professor in South Asian History, with joint appointment in Department of History
The South Asian Studies Programme (SASP), a constituent unit of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at the National University of Singapore, invites applications for a tenured faculty position, at the Associate Professor rank, in South Asian History, to commence in 2020. The successful candidate will have a strong research agenda focused on South …
New book traces Tamils’ presence in region
Sunday, 8 December 2019, Straits Times Online A newly launched publication has traced the Tamil community’s presence in Singapore and South-east Asia back 2,000 years. The Indian Heritage Centre’s (IHC) From Sojourners To Settlers – Tamils In South-east Asia And Singapore was launched yesterday by Minister for Communications and Information S. Iswaran at the Asian …
FASS AWARDS 2019
The annual FASS Awards Ceremony celebrates the pursuit of excellence across all domains, academic and non-academic achievements alike. From Special Book Prizes and Gold Medals for high-performing undergraduates to the FASS Student Leadership Award (#FSLA) which rewards leadership in extra-curricular activities, the Faculty’s bid to cultivate well-rounded students is an unceasing one. Our heartiest congratulations …
Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War
SIDHARTAN MAUNAGURU. (2019). Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War (Global South Asia). University of Washington Press The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and …
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A Republic in the Making, India in the1950s
GYANESH KUDAISYA. (2017). A Republic in the Making, India in the1950s (1 ed.). New Delhi: Oxford University Press This work takes a critical look at India in the 1950s, a momentous decade in its contemporary history. It looks at the colossal challenges which India faced in its years after Independence and conveys a sense of …
Singapore Indian Heritage
Singapore Indian Heritage is the Indian Heritage Centre’s first publication since the centre’s opening in 2015. It comprises essays by respected scholars and IHC’s curators on different aspects of Indian heritage, as told through the centre’s permanent galleries as well as catalogue entries featuring the centre’s collection of over 300 artefacts, photographs and documents. Edited …