kalramnath
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writing and teaching histories of 19 and 20c South Asia and Indian Ocean Worlds.
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Boats in a Storm gets an India edition with Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social!
Releasing on 18 August.
Releasing on 18 August.
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Excited to be speaking at @UniofExeter's CGS Virtual Seminar Series on "Portuguese Black Serpents Meet Safavid Dragons: The Intellectual World of Indian Ocean Imperialism." 🐉🐍 Register here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
February 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Excited to be speaking at @UniofExeter's CGS Virtual Seminar Series on "Portuguese Black Serpents Meet Safavid Dragons: The Intellectual World of Indian Ocean Imperialism." 🐉🐍 Register here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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The trial of 6 Italian officers for a 2023 shipwreck in which at least 94 people died is set to start this week.
The Cutro shipwreck trial is a crucial opportunity to secure truth and justice for survivors and families of victims.
The Cutro shipwreck trial is a crucial opportunity to secure truth and justice for survivors and families of victims.
Italy: Shipwreck Trial Opportunity For Justice
(Milan, January 27, 2026) – The trial, due to start this week, of 6 Italian officers for a 2023 shipwreck in which at least 94 people died is an important opportunity for justice for deaths of migrant...
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January 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The trial of 6 Italian officers for a 2023 shipwreck in which at least 94 people died is set to start this week.
The Cutro shipwreck trial is a crucial opportunity to secure truth and justice for survivors and families of victims.
The Cutro shipwreck trial is a crucial opportunity to secure truth and justice for survivors and families of victims.
It was a pleasure to review Reeju Ray's Placing the Frontier in British Northeast India: Law, Custom and Knowledge for Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social
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Reeju Ray , Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 224, £88.00 Hardback (ISBN 9780192887085). | Law and History Review...
Reeju Ray , Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 224, £88.00 Hardback (ISBN 9780192887085).
www.cambridge.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:49 PM
It was a pleasure to review Reeju Ray's Placing the Frontier in British Northeast India: Law, Custom and Knowledge for Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Its publication month for Lindsey Stephenson's Belonging on Both Shores!
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Belonging on Both Shores | Stanford University Press
For most of their history, the people around the Persian Gulf littoral were socially intertwined and economically interdependent. But the twentieth century ushered in nationalization projects, British...
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January 8, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Its publication month for Lindsey Stephenson's Belonging on Both Shores!
@supmktg.bsky.social
www.sup.org/books/middle...
@supmktg.bsky.social
www.sup.org/books/middle...
"Climate change may be measured in carbon, but its mother tongue is water"
December 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
"Climate change may be measured in carbon, but its mother tongue is water"
Congratulations, Julia!
The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrations.
Julia Stephens' Worldly Afterlives is now available (10 Feb UK pub).
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #BritishEmpire #ReadUP
Julia Stephens' Worldly Afterlives is now available (10 Feb UK pub).
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #BritishEmpire #ReadUP
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Congratulations, Julia!
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I wrote a book, it now has a cover, it's all feeling very real! Coming out (open access) in February, for all those with an interest in, well, religion, gender, and/or politics in Sri Lankan history.
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270309...
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270309...
Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka - Arc Humanities Press
The early second millennium was a pivotal moment in the history of Theravāda Buddhism. Religious reforms carried out at Poḷonnaruva, then-capital of Sri L...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I wrote a book, it now has a cover, it's all feeling very real! Coming out (open access) in February, for all those with an interest in, well, religion, gender, and/or politics in Sri Lankan history.
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270309...
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270309...
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Jakarta, Indonesia’s vibrant, overcrowded and sinking capital, has displaced Tokyo as the most populated city in the world, according to the UN, thanks to its new way of counting urban populations.
Jakarta Overtakes Tokyo as World’s Largest City, UN Report Says
The capital of Indonesia surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it measures urban populations.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Jakarta, Indonesia’s vibrant, overcrowded and sinking capital, has displaced Tokyo as the most populated city in the world, according to the UN, thanks to its new way of counting urban populations.
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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The IOWC is holding a hybrid conference in May 2026! We are currently asking for paper submissions.
More details can be found here: indianoceanworldcentre.com/2026-mapping...
Or via the QR code on the poster.
More details can be found here: indianoceanworldcentre.com/2026-mapping...
Or via the QR code on the poster.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The IOWC is holding a hybrid conference in May 2026! We are currently asking for paper submissions.
More details can be found here: indianoceanworldcentre.com/2026-mapping...
Or via the QR code on the poster.
More details can be found here: indianoceanworldcentre.com/2026-mapping...
Or via the QR code on the poster.
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NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
Congratulations, @mitrasharafi.bsky.social and #ASLH!
I am thrilled to be the new #ASLH president, receiving the gavel yesterday from former president Barbara Welke at our Detroit conference awards ceremony. My term is 2025-27. Excited to get to work! #legalhistory
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Congratulations, @mitrasharafi.bsky.social and #ASLH!
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“The storm hit rural Jamaica hardest – people who are poorest, least protected, and historically marginalised. The same communities shaped by slavery, colonial extraction, and racialised policies are now on the frontline of climate disaster.”
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies
Destruction in Jamaica shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice, campaigners say
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November 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“The storm hit rural Jamaica hardest – people who are poorest, least protected, and historically marginalised. The same communities shaped by slavery, colonial extraction, and racialised policies are now on the frontline of climate disaster.”
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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Reminder for 2025 Detroit #ASLH people: check out our *new* table for recently pub. legal history books not otherwise represented @ book sale! Authors donate a copy & everyone else can enter raffle for each book. I'll pull names of winners on Sat. morning & winners pick up books before end of day
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Reminder for 2025 Detroit #ASLH people: check out our *new* table for recently pub. legal history books not otherwise represented @ book sale! Authors donate a copy & everyone else can enter raffle for each book. I'll pull names of winners on Sat. morning & winners pick up books before end of day
The Belonging Project is off to a fantastic start today!
It was wonderful to host Mohsin Alam Bhat, Shardul Gopujkar, and Arushi Gupta, the co-authors of the "Unmaking Citizens: The Architecture of Rights Violations and Exclusion in India’s Citizenship Trials":
www.nls.ac.in/wp-content/u...
It was wonderful to host Mohsin Alam Bhat, Shardul Gopujkar, and Arushi Gupta, the co-authors of the "Unmaking Citizens: The Architecture of Rights Violations and Exclusion in India’s Citizenship Trials":
www.nls.ac.in/wp-content/u...
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Belonging Project is off to a fantastic start today!
It was wonderful to host Mohsin Alam Bhat, Shardul Gopujkar, and Arushi Gupta, the co-authors of the "Unmaking Citizens: The Architecture of Rights Violations and Exclusion in India’s Citizenship Trials":
www.nls.ac.in/wp-content/u...
It was wonderful to host Mohsin Alam Bhat, Shardul Gopujkar, and Arushi Gupta, the co-authors of the "Unmaking Citizens: The Architecture of Rights Violations and Exclusion in India’s Citizenship Trials":
www.nls.ac.in/wp-content/u...