Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Contemporary South Asia

Priya Satia — Visions of Freedom from Punjab’s Lake of Liberation

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

4:30pm - 6:00pm EST

McKinney Conference Room, 353

In this talk, Priya Satia, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University, explains how the history of a Sikh holy site in the semi-arid region of Punjab can help us better understand the cultural politics of environmental transformation during the era of British colonialism in South Asia.