Thanks to Siddharth Mehrotra indicanews.com for this generous book review 🙏🏽

A unique honour to write this piece for The Quint -an attempt to place the legendary Amar Singh Chamkila- slain at 27 in 1988- within the wider arc of cultural history in Punjab, where music meets morality.
(sharing again with direct access to the link):
thequint.com/neon/hot-take/…

My two bits on Chamkila, or for a “Hot Take” on The Quint - grateful for an opportunity to place “Punjab’s Elvis” within a longer historical trajectory going back to colonial Punjab.
thequint.com/neon/hot-take/…

📣 The CFP for our upcoming conference “Historicizing the Muslim Sensorium: Toward a Sensory History of Islam in the Early Modern World” Utrecht University is out. Please share widely!

⏰ Deadline for abstracts is June 1, 2024! More info on website.👇 sensis.wp.hum.uu.nl/2024/04/cfp-se…

Granting bail to #shomasen , the SC observed that the allegations of terrorism against Sen are prima facie untrue. scroll.in/latest/1066758

Sen is among 16 academicians, activists and lawyers who were charged under the UAPA for their alleged role in instigating caste violence at

Today I handed over the typescript of my new book Is A River Alive? to my editor & friend Simon Prosser.
It felt—after 3+ yrs’ work—like a big moment.
To mark it we walked up to the springs near my house, where a river is born—and the book begins & ends.
More on the project below.

Honored to be invited to give the BASAS annual lecture. BASAS was the first ever conference I took part in when I began my doctoral work. So this is quite a special invitation.

Look forward to the event, and hope to meet friends and colleagues in the Oxford area.

A college history professor once told me, ' Palestine is an invented identity. You're really Jordanian. There's no such thing as Palestine.'

Wish I could send him this, with my book on the 4th shelf. #ProudToBePalestinian #Palestine

Just 1 week to go until the fabulous Dr Jennifer Howes comes up to Durham for an exciting hybrid lecture on EIC & art for the Pedagogies of Dispossession South Asia network funded by Durham IAS . Hope many can join us in person (or email nesouthasia@gmail for a Zoom link North East South Asia Network ).

simply cant fathom how savarnas write about decline of public univs w/o role of caste-- private university & elite IB school boom happened DIRECTLY after 2006 OBC reservation in education.

In 18 yrs since then over 400+ pvt univs have opened, almost none w caste-quota.

Dont

Came across this wonderful 2004 book on Mangesh Desai, sound mixer for hundreds of films including Sholay, by his daughter.

In 1971, Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan after a violent conflict. What is not known widely is how a team of doctors from Calcutta fought off an epidemic in the midst of this savage war, popularising something we often drink today. 1/19

Release #GulfishaFatima and all political prisoners!

Historian Prof. Uma Chakravarti joined the screening of 'Ek Inquilab Aur Aaya' to discuss the erased histories of Muslim women in Independence Movement, specially those in the Left. #NoCAA #ReleaseAllPoliticalPriaoners

Sign up (at nesouthasia.gmail.com) to join Radha and South Asia colleagues@durham_uni #ShamiraMeghani #ChrisBahl #StephenAshe for Dr Jennifer Howes's talk about the East India Company, art & propaganda, using material from the Durham University Collections. Tue 23 April at 2pm in the IAS.

The Second Rajasthani #SummerSchool for graduate students across discipline working and/or interested in #Rajasthan and wide region are welcome to apply!

We cover love epics, manuscripts, performing traditions, visual arts, material culture and many more!

#AcademicTwitter

***BASAS Annual Lecture 2024***

Speaker: Prof Ravinder Kaur (University of Copenhagen)

Title: 'Protocols of Memory: 1947 Partition and the Return of the Political'

Oxford Brookes University, 23 April 2024

basas.org.uk/news-events/ba…

Ravinder Kaur @[email protected]

I will be speaking on my book at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies on 18th April, Thursday, 10:00-11:30AM (BST). This is an online event on Zoom. Please use the QR code in the poster below to register for free by 16 April.
Grateful to Prof. Kyoko Niwa and Tariq Sheikh 🙏🏽

Terrible news for Abingdon and Basingstoke. x.com/jjoque/status/…

OLIVES FROM WEST RAMALLAH, Nabil Anani, 2013

calculation of solar and lunar eclipses from The Wonders of Creation by al-Qazwini (Arabic manuscript, 14th century).