Adam Matvya
@adammatvya.bsky.social
History PhD student at Notre Dame // British Empire, South Asia, Muslims, and emotions // Betis and Everton fan // London-based
Derby days with Betis peña in London 💚
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Derby days with Betis peña in London 💚
A truly model club
October 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A truly model club
Unavoidable recourse in syllabus prep
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Unavoidable recourse in syllabus prep
The views on the Edinburgh-London train really are special
August 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The views on the Edinburgh-London train really are special
Morning hike up Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh.
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Morning hike up Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh.
For those days when the wind is too loud to write and you need something that sounds like droney glitches of static and air
July 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
For those days when the wind is too loud to write and you need something that sounds like droney glitches of static and air
The colonial official, Charles Metcalfe, anticipating my boredom after reading hundreds of pages of internal East India Company feuding
July 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The colonial official, Charles Metcalfe, anticipating my boredom after reading hundreds of pages of internal East India Company feuding
BJP is escalating 'transnational repression' against dissidents. Last October, British academic Nitasha Kaul was denied entry into India despite holding a valid visa. Now, her OCI has been revoked.
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May 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
BJP is escalating 'transnational repression' against dissidents. Last October, British academic Nitasha Kaul was denied entry into India despite holding a valid visa. Now, her OCI has been revoked.
scroll.in/latest/10824...
scroll.in/latest/10824...
Recent historiography re-situates Partition within a broader 20th cen. global history of mass displacement & population transfer w/ resonances to present-day refugee histories (see Yasmin Khan).
This WSJ author implicitly accepts that framing but normalizes it as a policy prescription. Just ghastly
This WSJ author implicitly accepts that framing but normalizes it as a policy prescription. Just ghastly
February 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Recent historiography re-situates Partition within a broader 20th cen. global history of mass displacement & population transfer w/ resonances to present-day refugee histories (see Yasmin Khan).
This WSJ author implicitly accepts that framing but normalizes it as a policy prescription. Just ghastly
This WSJ author implicitly accepts that framing but normalizes it as a policy prescription. Just ghastly
The slowing down effects of analogue tech
February 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The slowing down effects of analogue tech
MAGA imperialist ideology is part civilizational, but mostly geopolitical-realist (using Duncan Bell's typology).
January 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
MAGA imperialist ideology is part civilizational, but mostly geopolitical-realist (using Duncan Bell's typology).
RIP Shyam Benegal. Fittingly, just last night watched Zwigato. Shades of parallel cinema. On class, technology, gig economy, and the urban poor. In Shyam's words: "quiet, understated, brilliantly controlled" (via Nandita Das' socials).
December 23, 2024 at 6:13 PM
RIP Shyam Benegal. Fittingly, just last night watched Zwigato. Shades of parallel cinema. On class, technology, gig economy, and the urban poor. In Shyam's words: "quiet, understated, brilliantly controlled" (via Nandita Das' socials).
Geared up for a six hour Thanksgiving day drive
November 28, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Geared up for a six hour Thanksgiving day drive