Mission Statement

The South Asia Reading Group (aka Kitabmandal) has been meeting at the University of Michigan campus since Winter Term 1999. As a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop, Kitabmandal brings together faculty, graduate students, other local scholars, and occasionally people from the community at large to convene for serious critical discussion of scholarly books, published research articles, or draft manuscripts about South Asia. For 2010-2011, the group will meet at 5:30pm on every third Thursday of the month at 1644 SSWB for two-hour sessions.

Upcoming Events: Academic Year 2010-2011

• March 10th at 5:30pm in 210 West Hall: Kitabmandal discussion of Faisal Devji's article, "Muhammad Iqbal and the Crisis of Representation in British India." The article can be retrieved from: http://www.mediafire.com/?tiiqe1bqecgyxq3 
  
• March 31st at 5:30pm in 210 West Hall: Kitabmandal discussion of Kamala Visweswaran's book, Un/Common Cultures: Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference. We have ordered 12 copies and will distribute them on a first serve, first come basis to participating Kitabmandal members.