My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women.

It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women

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my book talk at the UW-Madison Center for South Asia is tomorrow at 12.00 noon CST. I would love to see you there if you have an hour to spare! There is also a Zoom registration link: uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.

February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f

Honored and grateful that the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy book prize 2025 has been awarded to “Hurt sentiments”. A full list of all books awarded is in the link below.

Many thanks to the members of the jury for this award, and to reader and reviewers for their reception of the book. @harvardpress

“Lord Palmerston was known for promoting British nationalism and intervention. Palmerston is known for mousing.”

I don't know who needs to hear this but grad students and, in fact, undergrads too can benefit immensely from Writing Center support. It is never too early nor too late to seek feedback on any kind of written work.

Looking forward to the books and it was great listening to Prof. @audreytruschke.bsky.social and Prof. Davis for the first time!!

Help! I want to use this classic group photo from India House, London (1909) in my book, but it is in the hands of Hindutva fanatics, and I don't want to ask them for permission. It is old enough to be in the public domain. Any suggestions for getting access. savarkarsmarak.com/%E0%A4%9B%E0...

I review Prof. Arunima Datta's well-researched and important book on the traveling ayahs here:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DNCBH...

Thanks again @priyankabasu.bsky.social for the opportunity. Anybody interested in reading and can't go beyond the paywall, please let me know. Will be happy to share 🙂

I review Prof. Arunima Datta's well-researched and important book on the traveling ayahs here:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DNCBH...

Thanks again @priyankabasu.bsky.social for the opportunity. Anybody interested in reading and can't go beyond the paywall, please let me know. Will be happy to share 🙂

I am begging us to understand religion as a system of power and not only theology

white American Christianity is a supremacist system, and has been, forever

It has forever shaped our laws, publics, etc, from their inception

it is not about the text or faith

it is about having & keeping power

Of course, academic research in history is important but something is going amiss when people (academics+ not associated with RW ideology+minority) start claiming Ram to be a historical character, despite the decades of scholarship to prove the contrary.

As we celebrated Savitribai Phule's birth anniversary yesterday, I couldn't help but remember Hari Narke who left us one and half years ago. Narke spent so much of his career gathering historical details about Jotirao and Savitribai Phule, including the accurate information about Savitribai's death.

This is a good time to share that I edited essays for a special issue of Asian Affairs that was published as an edited book by #Routledgehistory this year. Includes essays on #Partition and the war of 1971 to better understand debates on belonging and citizenship in #SouthAsia today.

Join us next week for a lecture with Gaurav C. Garg (Ashoka University):
"Claiming Mt. Everest: How early postcolonial Indians saw themselves, the empire, and the world."

Register for online attendance (Zoom):
lnu.se/mot-linneuni...
@lnuccon.bsky.social

Very happy to share that Radha Kapuria & my edited volume—‘Performing’ Nature: Ecology and the Arts in South Asia—is coming out from Routledge in February 2025. The book has 8 essays, a Foreword (Jim Sykes) and an Afterword (Sugata Ray).
The book is available for pre-order. Please spread the word.🙏🏽