The Critical South Asia Group at Warwick brings together staff and research students whose scholarly work focuses on South Asia. The group draws upon the wide-ranging inter-disciplinary backgrounds and academic expertise that we bring together as a collective. In particular, we seek to interrogate the ways in which 'South Asia' itself is constituted as an 'area' of study within dominant disciplines, and we strive to bring a 'critical' perspective to issues of culture and languages, historiography, political economy, law, social inequality (with a particular focus on gender, caste, ethnicity, religion) and borders and boundaries. We also endeavour to cross the lines between academic research and social action.

The Critical South Asia Group is convened by Nisha Kapoor, University of Warwick Sociology.