The aim of this conference will be to examine the confluence, in the wake of decolonization, of global and national influences in the reconfiguration of South Asian societies and polities. The participants will include a range of distinguished and up-and-coming scholars from North America, the United Kingdom, South Asia and Australia. They approach the issue of decolonization in different but mutually reinforcing ways, through constitutionalism, sports, regionalisms, housing, gender, minority issues, and class formation. The published volume of papers from the conference will be dedicated to the memory of Professor Bernard Cohn, who had a sustained interest in the history of decolonization in the subcontinent.