South Asia in the South China Sea Workshop

Over the last few decades, scholars have explored South Asia’s longstanding and enduring connections with different parts of the world, with the Indian Ocean emerging as a particularly rich site for such studies. Placed just beyond the recognized limits of the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and its surroundings have occupied an ambiguous space within this scholarship. Though scholars have highlighted the region’s longstanding connections with South Asia, many aspects of these linkages, especially in the modern era, have yet to receive adequate attention. Through a focus on South Asia’s connections with this maritime region, China and the broader Sinophone world in the past and the present, this workshop aims to transcend area studies frameworks that have tended to separate the study of these areas.  By bringing together scholars from across disciplinary backgrounds working at the intersection of South, South East and East Asian studies, this workshop intends to…