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Meaghan Morris delivered a Golden Jubilee Lecture ‘In Praise of Parochial Blockbusters: Community, Change and Cliché in Trans-local Action Cinema’ on 27 March 2014 at CSDS. The lecture reflected on the transformative power of cinematic

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Rashid Khalidi delivered a Golden Jubilee lecture on ‘The Long 20th Century: The View from the Middle East’ on 20 March 2014 at CSDS. The lecture proposed a re-examination of the history of the 20th century in light of a slightly different

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Mamadou Diouf delivered a Golden Jubilee lecture on ‘State and Sufi Islam in Senegal: The (Un)Making of the Senegalese Social Contract’ on 21 March 2014 at CSDS. Senegal has been hailed as a model of ‘Good Islam’. The social

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C. M. Naim delivered a talk on ‘Zafar Omar: The Man Who Invented Bahram Daku’ on 12 March 2014 at CSDS. Zafar Omar was among the pioneers of mystery fiction in Urdu, and his book Nili Chhatri (1916) was a huge bestseller

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The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies released its new brochure in 2013 which is a comprehensive record of CSDS. When we look back over the last 50 years, we can identify significant moments in the history of CSDS. In the 1960s, the Centre