“…the persistence of GT, which is neither neatly aligned to the natural time nor the standardised clock time, allows it to be placed erroneously in the hidden rhythms of nature. The truth is that this structure of time coalesced at the intersection of industry and labour...”

For anyone confused about what's going on right now with the Trump administration and the intentional dismantling of the world order as we know it, I highly recommend reading this piece by James Pogue from October vanityfair.com/news/story/ste…

Finally, it's going to come out. A feeling of delight but also nervousness, as this was never meant to be a book. First written as a blog piece, and then it unknowingly took the shape of a book. Thanks to 'Timely Histories'. European Research Council (ERC) Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient degruyter.com/document/isbn/…

🚨I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with Stanford University Press is out, featuring Jennifer Eaglin, Victor Seow, Shellen Wu, Antoine Missemer, Giuliano Garavini ☮︎, Michael Dobson, Laura A. Twagira, Damilola Adebayo, Troy Vettese, Liz Chatterjee, and Rebecca Wright

✍️New: A brilliant piece by Dr. Spva Sairam (Vikram4 ) on Dr. Ambedkar’s quiet connection to cinema, music, and theatre. From his meeting with Dilip Kumar to getting emotional while watching Mahatma Phule (1954), it uncovers a rarely discussed side of Babasaheb. (1/2)

Is there a third world Marxism beyond value-form theory?? harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Happy to share the newly designed blog of our European Research Council (ERC) funded project, Timely Histories. Also wish to invite those who want to contribute to the blog on issues related to time and temporality in South Asia. If interested, please contact me. timelyhistories8.wordpress.com

India represents the world's second-largest labour market, with approximately 625 million workers. Of these, 600 million are currently employed, with the rest seeking work. Agriculture employs just under half of these workers or 280 million people. Outside of agriculture, the

Our department is hiring. Apply to join a truly interdisciplinary team of faculty examining the built environment! 🙂

Wrote smth on why digital frauds are endemic to our lives as a way of understanding the intersection of digital capitalism, law/regulation, and new ways of doing social security in India mcrg.ac.in/PP167.pdf #digitalfraud #digitalindia #digitalcapitalism #contemporaryindia

Timely Histories European Research Council (ERC) is organising a two-day conference on 'Rhythms of Livelihood' in November 2025 in Delhi. Please spread the word. Details given below. zmo.de/fileadmin/user…

CALL FOR PAPERS: CSDS in cooperation with the Timely Histories Project at ZMO, Berlin, invites proposals for papers to be presented at a workshop on ‘Rhythms of Livelihood: Past and Present’ to be held in November 2025 at CSDS. For Details, Click csds.in/workshop_on_rh…

Special issue on Materializing #Land edited by Rachel Sturman is #CSSAME Duke University Press is soon forthcoming and here is my epilogue: the authors are pushing the land question in new directions shorturl.at/lQy9Y read on: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/advanc…

New open access article CSSH where I write about India's city improvement trusts of early 20th century and how they inaugurated a new language, technology, and rationality of urban governance. - bit.ly/43Vy46q

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