historian of South Asia, police, Tamil worlds.
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Radha Kumar retweeted
21 Mar 2025
Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History by @OrnitShani and @itihaasnaama is out later this year with @CambridgeUP (cover below) and @PenguinIndia
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Radha Kumar retweeted
19 Mar 2025
📢 #AIIS Dissertation to Book Workshop Applications are now open!
Part of the Annual Conference on South Asia at UW Madison, this workshop helps recent PhDs transform their dissertations into books.
Workshop: October 21-22, 2025
Deadline: July 15, 2025
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Radha Kumar retweeted
11 Jul 2024
Now in HINDI, BANGLA, and TAMIL:
In "The Tamil Voter: Savvy or Starstruck?" @mailradhakumar (@SyracuseU) challenges the trope that cinema paves an assured path to electoral success in Tamil Nadu politics. casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/trans…
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In "The Tamil Voter: Savvy or Starstruck?" @mailradhakumar (@SyracuseU) challenges the trope that cinema paves an assured path to electoral success in Tamil Nadu politics. casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/radha…
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6 May 2024
SUCH a good piece on BJP and caste politics in UP & Bihar. @thecaravanindia caravanmagazine.in/politics/…
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Radha Kumar retweeted
23 Apr 2024
1/6. Tata Institute of Social Sciences suspension of Dalit scholar P. S. Ramadas for alleged ‘anti-national’ activity is appalling. This must mark the lowest point TISS has seen in its distinguished history in both leadership and action.#TISS #DALIT
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Radha Kumar retweeted
27 Mar 2024
Today, we are releasing a subset of the findings from the (unofficial) 2024 U-M Community Survey on Anti-Palestinian Bias and Islamophobia. Full report here: tinyurl.com/5n89yrwm
A🧵on the survey, some highlights, and what the findings mean
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20 Mar 2024
Tambrahm musical establishment’s fragility and pearl clutching are something to behold. Kind of doing Periyars work for him posthumously. @tmkrishna
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Radha Kumar retweeted
6 Mar 2024
I have some bad news - buried in the appropriations bill being voted on this week is a terrible new gun policy rider that significantly rolls back the firearms background check system.
1/ You need to know about this - it’s bad enough that I will vote against the entire bill.
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Radha Kumar retweeted
6 Mar 2024
The women making iPhones in India live in hostels that don't allow them to venture out during the week for anything other than the commute to the factory
Read @Johanna_Deeksha's eye-opening report
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Radha Kumar retweeted
13 Sep 2023
Posted Today: Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History | Columbia University Department of History dlvr.it/Sw3fpv
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Radha Kumar retweeted
21 Sep 2023
Open rank search at History of Art at Yale on South Asian art and architecture
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Radha Kumar retweeted
17 Jul 2023
Please reach out if you wish to access the collection of Professor Karen Leonard ( Professor Emerita, University of California Irvine)
I post this message on her behalf.
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Radha Kumar retweeted
15 Aug 2023
I’m thrilled to be guest editing a thematic dossier on Indian Ocean histories to be published in 2025. Please share the call for papers widely and consider contributing! Thanks @medievalqabq and @zaydeantrim for this exciting opportunity!
15 Aug 2023
We are pleased to announce a thematic dossier on Indian Ocean histories guest edited by Jyoti Balachandran, to be published in 2025. To that end, we are soliciting original research articles that employ the Indian Ocean as their analytical framework.
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Radha Kumar retweeted
3 Aug 2023
Hearing shocking stories from friends in Gurugram about the aftermath of the violence: charred streets, homes abandoned by Muslims. That this is happening in a tech hub that is seen as the symbol of tomorrow's India bodes very ill for the future. reuters.com/world/india/indi…
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Radha Kumar retweeted
29 Jul 2023
Harindranath Chattopadhyay (1898 – 1990) was a poet, dramatist, actor, painter musician and a member of the 1st Lok Sabha.
He used his Curd Seller verses as a weapon to hit out at the then Government’s policies and follies.
After the Railway Budget speech, he rose and said,
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Radha Kumar retweeted
17 Jun 2023
Privileged to have been the reviewer of this compelling work @FrontImmunol @FrontiersIn. Congrats @Rukmini_Vantage & the team at Merck & Co. @Merck on their insightful publication. frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Radha Kumar retweeted
28 Apr 2023
Madras HC appoints retired judge to probe Vengavayal caste crime
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Radha Kumar retweeted
16 Apr 2023
@UnitedAirlines we have a flight booking for Auckland to sfo. Your systems can't detect the confirmation code. The flight doesn't exist for today. we are at Auckland airport. There is nobody from united airlines here. We are on hold with united for an hour.
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