#ECSAS 2025 participants, have you heard back from organisers abt the invitation letter for visa application? In my experience, this is the worst organising team. @unihd-sai.bsky.social

Hi! Anyone out here researching at BnF in Paris these days? Need a favor. Thanks.
@labnf.bsky.social

Reminder that you can still submit an abstract for the panel “Sensing the Past: New Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern South Asia” I am putting together with @nehavermani.bsky.social for this year’s ECSAS in Heidelberg.

Deadline: January 30, 2025.

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Amanda Herbert & @nehavermani.bsky.social explore global culinary translation, examining how European colonisers controlled spice routes & clashed with local practices of bodily autonomy. Using European and South Asian records they explore the use of spices & differing views of authenticity.

Early modern 🦅 have been living rent-free in my head for the past many weeks as I chase a writing deadline. Pictured here are Mughal men inspecting their falcons. However, their act becomes more legible when read with falconry manuals produced at court. They
advise 🧵

Johnson’s baby powder advert from 1951 targeting Indian mothers not using their magical product for baby’s delicate skin that promised to soothe restlessness. Other claims: some fathers use it too (!), it works wonders for clearing out heat induced pimples, and great for the kids and adults.

William Dalrymple knows zilch abt methodology & critical thinking.

“Historians will no doubt cringe at the reduction of the majestic diversity of the subcontinent’s religions, philosophies and sciences, as well as languages, into a singular “Sanskritic” sun”.

www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...

Pineapple pizza haters, what are your sentiments about this 17th century Mughal meaty pineapple pulao recipe? 🍍

Since we are doing introductions here, I work on early modern South Asia history, particularly food practices, plant-animal interactions, & intersection between the histories of material cultures, science, emotion, and senses. For published work, check sheffield.academia.edu/nehavermani

❤️ tender exchanges between powerful early modern men. In a letter to the Mughal Aurangzeb, the Safavid Shah expressed his pleasure at the continuous supply of betel leaves wrapped in bar-jama-i lahauri (a muslin cloth from Lahore) which kept the stuff fresh & green🍃🎁.