We are absolutely delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 Sardar Patel Award: Dr. Manav Kapur, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

James West Alumni Center 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM (Pacific Time)

Hollian Wint-Frederick is Assistant Professor of African History at UCLA. Her forthcoming book, Mobile Households: Indian Ocean Intimate Economies in the Age of Abolition, is a feminist micro-history of Indian Ocean capitalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her research draws on multi-lingual archives—Gujarati, Arabic, and Swahili—in Tanzania, India, and the UK.

Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific Time)

Drawing upon 500 pages of letters and remittance records exchanged between his maternal grandfather, P.K. “Java” Raman, a typist in Batavia, and his family in Malabar, Aditya Balasubramanian (Australian National University) explores the overlooked experiences of Indian middle-class migrants in Southeast Asia and contends that migration and transnational connections persisted during the Great Depression, revealing the economic insecurities, emotional challenges, and remittance networks that linked Indians across the Bay of Bengal and across imperial boundaries.

Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 4:00 PM (Pacific Time)