Historian of South Asia. Mother. Cat person.
Joined March 2009
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1 Oct 2024
This is what academic solidarity and courage looks like.
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5 Aug 2024
📢REPLUG:
A short primer on the recent protests in #Bangladesh and the longer history behind #SheikhHasina's fall from power.
by @cannafis_
jamhoor.org/read/the-spectre…
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4 Aug 2024
.@BBC insisting on reporting racist rioters as 'protestors' and 'demonstrators' is a gross misrepresentation of the violence impacting communities of colour across the UK. Language matters.
4 Aug 2024
“Protests”. You keep saying “protests” @BBCNews - do you mean white supremacists are on the streets terrorising Muslims? What exactly are they “protesting” against?
ALT A BBC image of police in riot gear and a headline saying LIVE: More than 90 arrests after violence erupts at several UK protests”
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24 Jun 2024
Really looking forward to this next week!
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6 Jun 2024
With articles by @akkhan81 Arsalan Khan, Farhana Ibrahim, Antara Datta @buchu Uttara Shahani, @FarooqiMehr @waheed_sarah Shahla Hussain @aziakashmir in the wake of CAA and renewed debates on citizenship and belonging. #1971 #CAA #SouthAsia #Partition
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5 Jun 2024
Postdoc job in London! The Production of Climate Justice. A big new project with the wonderful @PaulineSophieH. Details here: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/090348-postdo…
#climatejustice
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4 Jun 2024
With everyone muttering about the importance of the Constitution in this election I urge you to read two things: @sandiptodg’s new book and @itihaasnaama’s wonderful new article in Past and Present: academic.oup.com/past/articl…
31 May 2024
Congratulations to #NSSRfaculty Sandipto Dasgupta (@sandiptodg) on the publication of his first book, LEGALIZING THE REVOLUTION: INDIA AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE POSTCOLONY (@CambridgeUP).
Check out more ⏩ cambridge.org/us/universityp…
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4 Jun 2024
I woke up at 4 am to follow the election news and the coverage these guys provided was absolutely sensational. As someone who teaches South Asian history and politics it is always humbling to learn from those with genuine on the ground granular knowledge.
4 Jun 2024
Collaborations between news organizations are rare, but we managed to pull it off. We- @thenewsminute @newslaundry @thewire_in @scroll_in and @thecaravanindia know that our strength is in numbers and it’s been a superb experience.
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1 May 2024
These are horrendous scenes. Let no one ever ever say our pandemic era students are ‘snowflakes.’ They are the very best of us.
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18 Apr 2024
Mohammed Salem, World Press Photo of the Year.
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18 Apr 2024
"Will there be singing in the dark times?
Yes there will also be singing
About the dark times"
Students singing at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia university yesterday.
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16 Apr 2024
Jinal Parekh (@JinalP) and Anara Datta (@buchu) use India’s 1979 complaint to the UN Human Rights Commission about the ‘virginity test’ at Heathrow to re-examine the changing role of discourses about race in postcolonial institutions of global governance. doi.org/10.1017/S17400228230…
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8 Apr 2024
A lot to digest here, but there’s no doubt it’s a powerfully argued piece about the historical relationship between fossil capital, western political interests in the Middle East, and the current war on Gaza.
8 Apr 2024
Six months of bombing, of destruction, of genocide - a new horrific phase in a long history of colonization and extraction.
Understanding the present crisis, Andreas Malm argues, requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine's subjugation to fossil empire
versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/n…
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3 Apr 2024
Here are some of the other attacks on aid workers in Gaza which have not had the same investigative treatment by the IDF. They did not draw the same international outrage either.
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19 Mar 2024
This was a fantastic way to start the week. This was a brilliant thesis, a pleasure to read and I learned a great deal from it.
my brilliant PhD student @sheekha_d passed her viva yesterday with no corrections, defending a thesis entitled 'Interstitial Itineraries: the making of race, caste, and capital in the Indian diaspora'; thanks to @buchu and @SankaranKrishn who were fantastic examiners
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11 Mar 2024
The CAA news is unsurprising. Linking to a few things to read on the question
14 Jan 2020
My take on precisely why the National Register of Citizens is such a monstrous idea, which - coupled with the #CAA - will divide and devour India like no previous bureaucratic measure ever has. #NRC scroll.in/article/948969/the…
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13 Mar 2024
On the politics of the CAA in Assam and what makes it different thequint.com/opinion/caa-bjp… from @saha_abhi1990 who also has an excellent book on this.
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