Calling it illegal, DDA demolished a mosque in Mehrauli last week. When The Indian Express set out to investigate, it found that ASI records had listed it a century ago. By Vidheesha Kuntamalla indianexpress.com/article/cities…

I think this came out today! If you get a copy before me, let me know. I don’t often think about books as exciting, but this one is!

This Sunday, I want to share a story that took me to Satara. In rural India, a public library can be the very lifeline of a village or town; Rahimatpur's Hind Vachanalaya does exactly this by giving people a place to read, study and find community. LINK: mid-day.com/sunday-mid-day…

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here she is!!🦄✨🕺 the Introduction is up now free to read -- preorder with coupon code E24WEISS for 30% off! dukeupress.edu/unsettling-que… #queeranthro AQA: The Association for Queer Anthropology Duke University Press so grateful for the cover art -- Julie Mehretu’s Dissident Score ❤️🩷🩵🖤

A tremendous book. It's hard enough to do top-rate archival work in several languages, now add some memorable ethnographic fieldwork as well. This was as delightful to read as another gem from the genre of historical ethnography – John Pemberton's "On the Subject of Java."

Are you intrigued by archives & archivists?  Join @AzimPremjiUniversity Humanities Conference on Archives & Archiving! ️ March 14-15th. Explore ethics, tech, & the future of archives. #History #PublicAccess

The end product of humanities and social science PhDs does not have to be the proto-monograph. It is wonderful to see PhD students at Brandeis writing and producing dissertations in different kinds of ways and reaching new audiences!

Decolonial feminist philosopher, scholar-activist, and teacher María Lugones transitioned on this day in 2020. Lugones coined the terms "coloniality of gender" and "decolonial feminism."

I am currently mentoring a few academics (my own PhD students and a few early-career TT scholars) and I am trying to teach them about how to frame their work in terms of the broader questions of a field, and a discipline. Any ideas for good citations on how to do this linking?

We are hiring a research assistant. Details in the link. docs.google.com/document/d/1kh…

So gratifyingly happy to have received such brilliant (100+!) recommendations on books around the theme of home/belonging- understood in so many different ways. Sharing a list of reccos, biased towards South Asian partition/diaspora lit but featuring many others. Enjoy! ♥️♥️

Join us for an event on the history of Madras textiles in India and the Caribbean at the V&A on October 11th! We will be launching Connecting Threads project website with a great line-up of speakers. Join us in London or online: vam.ac.uk/event/YGVBDZm3… vam.ac.uk/event/8dwdoL5w…

📢📢ANNOUNCEMENT TIME ‼️ Beyond thrilled to have picked 'The Many Lives of Syeda X' as our WomenandGenderBookClub2023 pick of the month! Hoping fervently that Neha Dixit can find the time to join us ❣️ Details: 🗓️: December 8, 2024 ⏲️:6-7.30 pm IST 🏘️:Online on Zoom DM for more details!

Andrew Ollett writes, "But once again, the smallness of the field makes things that are straightforward in principle quite difficult in practice: it is vanishingly rare for low-caste students from poor backgrounds in India to wind up at American universities.” #AcademicTwitter

Coming for READ PALESTINE WEEK (Nov 29 - Dec 5), a new free zine of writing by authors in Gaza.

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Tonight, hold your people close. Think of those you love. The world feels unbearably heavy—today, and everyday. In a time like this, gentleness is everything. 🖤 #Ahemdabad