Amanda Lanzillo
Amanda Lanzillo is a historian of Southasia, researching artisanship and experiences of labor, technology, and social change within Indian Muslim communities. Currently a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, she is working on a book tentatively titled 'Manufacturing Islamic Modernity: Muslim artisans and industrial change in colonial India'.
From cholera to coronavirus
How prisons in contemporary India continue to follow the colonial handbook.
Dec 14, 2020
The life and times of a British journal of Islam
How ‘Islamic Review’ became one of the most prominent journals of Islamic thought in the West.
Mar 18, 2019
Before empire
How should we read the Europeans who wrote about Southasia before colonial domination?
May 21, 2018
Latest Articles
Making sense of Nepali politics
Scholars of political structures and processes in today’s Nepal struggle to find their feet.
The machine that went rogue
Learning from Myanmar’s unsuccessful ‘Third Force’ movement.
No neutrality
The military’s neutral stance around Imran Khan’s ouster may be damage control.
Southasia’s climate crisis, violent crackdowns on protests, ‘Incantations Over Water’, and more.
Southasiasphere episode 17: Updates and analysis from around the region.
