90 Days & 50 Dollars': Idi Amin, Uganda & the Disbursal of South Asians

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University

Past Event

Thursday, May 19, 2022
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (UTC)

Registration Required

Hosts

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University

Languages

English
English

Channels

Virt India

Speakers: Sana Aiyar is Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (@MITIndiaProgram), with research specialism in South Asian diasporas. She is author of Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora (2015)

Saima Nasar is Lecturer in the History of Africa & Its Diasporas, Department of History (@UofBrisHistory), University of Bristol. She is currently completing her monograph titled 'Fragile Citizenship: The Diasporic Histories of Britain's East African Asians'; 

Richard Reid is Professor of African History, University of Oxford (@OxfordHistory), and author of A History of Modern Uganda (2017)

Becky Taylor is Professor of Modern History (@UEAHistory) & Member of the Migration Research Network, University of East Anglia. She is author, most recently, of Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain: A History (2021).

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).

Photo credit: 'Expelled Asians in The Netherlands after leaving Uganda, 1972', Wikipedia.

Hosts

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University