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Our Fellow Yamini Agarwal reviews Laurence Gautier ’s book ‘Between Nation and ‘Community’: Muslim Universities and
Indian Politics After Partition’, read more 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Last week, @mwfdelhi.bsky.social organised a workshop on ‘Fake, Fraud, Counterfeit’ in collaboration with Ashoka University. It was a truly dynamic and successful event. It started off with the brilliant keynote lecture by Lawrence Cohen. @maxweberstiftung.de
September 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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On 11-12 September 2025 we had an engaging #workshop at Shiv Nadar University on ‘Rethinking #businesshistory of South Asia.” Participants from all over the world got together to deliberate on fresh ideas, perspectives and topics to bring within the ambit of the field. @maxweberstiftung.de
September 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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We are delighted to welcome Sunil Amrith (Yale University) on 13 October 2025, when he will give our next #ThyssenLecture. 📯

His talk is entitled 'Colonialism and the Climate Crisis: Rethinking Legacies and Trajectories'.
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September 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Insightful #discussion, as the researchers from @mwfdelhi.bsky.social engaged with Prof. Satish Deshpande at the OPUS #Workshop ‘Situated #SocialScience: #Caste-Class, #Education and Location’
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September 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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📢New in our @universitypress.cambridge.org series
Shifting Landscapes: Education and Urban Transformations in India by Geetha B. Nambissan (JNU Delhi), Nandini Manjrekar (TISS), Shivali Tukdeo(Mahindra University) & Indra Sengupta @ghilondon.bsky.social
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August 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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EASAS is offering three awards of €300 each to the most outstanding papers by research students presenting at #ECSAS2025.

For more information: www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

#SaiHeidelberg #SouthAsiaInstitute #UniversitätHeidelberg #Heidelberg #SaiResearch #ECSAS2025 #ECSAS #EASAS
August 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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On 12 Aug 2025, @mwfdelhi.bsky.social had #workshop, #InheritanceEconomyandLaw with IIT Kanpur’s #Humanities & #SocialSciences deptt.
Lively sessions with insights from scholars. Thanks to all who made this dialogue possible!
#IITKanpur #InheritanceEconomyLaw #AcademicDialogue #Collaboration
August 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Happy to announce that @mwfdelhi.bsky.social affiliated fellow, Dr Soheb Niazi, has secured the DN Ghosh Prize for the best paper in #EPW 2024 for the paper, Towards a #History of Non-ashrāf Muslims: Notes on the Muslim Occupational Castes in Late #ColonialIndia
Details 👇
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The D N Ghosh Prize for the Best Papers in EPW
In honour of the late Mr. Dhruba Narayan Ghosh — a superb civil servant, a distinguished corporate leader, an innovative banker, a builder of institutions, a natural leader, a scholar, a columnist and...
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August 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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@mwfdelhi.bsky.social in collaboration with the department of #Humanities & #socialsciences, IIT Kanpur, is organising a #workshop ‘Inheritance, Economy and Law: A Sociological Inquiry’, on Tuesday, 12 August, 2025 at IIT Kanpur
August 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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🪧Applications invited from post-doctoral/early career scholars at German universities and research institutions, for a three-month #fellowship
🕔26 September 2025 (23:59 CET)
Details👇
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GHIL-MWF Delhi Joint Fellowship on "The British Empire and the History of Colonialism"
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July 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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📣 Auch in diesem Jahr vergeben wir die Gerald D. Feldman-#Reisebeihilfen an international orientierte Wissenschaftler*innen in der Qualifikationsphase. 📚 🌏

Bewerbungsschluss ist der 5. Oktober 2025.

🔗 Alle Infos zum Förderumfang und zur Bewerbung unter: www.maxweberstiftung...

June 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Private papers of Muhammad Mujeeb (1902-1985) are now public. We begin with a Bio-Biographical Introduction. Photographs and private correspondences in Urdu, German and English will follow
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M. Mujeeb Private Papers
The Archive M. Mujeeb’s private papers are still with his family. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks for the permission to publish this very large and varied selection. Private Papers Muham...
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June 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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🪧#Applications for a 3-month travel grant, invited from highly qualified #humanities and #socialscience academics of any nationality. Age no bar
🕔5 October 2025 (23:59 CET)
Details 👇https://karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/2f54feb34721776c74edaf99767a5311b425643b0
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Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants
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June 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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How do colonial-era racial theories continue to influence modern science in India?

In our latest GHIL #podcast interview we're exploring this question by examining new research which traces the transnational connections between Germany and colonial India in the field of racial science. 🎧
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June 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Morgen 17 Uhr geht's weiter mit #HistoriansonDemocracy 📅 Jetzt anmelden für die spannende Diskussionsrunde über Rechtsstaatlichkeit unter Moderation unserer Präsidentin Ute Frevert!

👉https://uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/meeting/register/QOnTazZgTC-A6-V5AAI31w#/registration
christina-morina.bsky.social Christina Morina @christina-morina.bsky.social · May 26
What's the relevance of "The Rule of Law" in the past and present of democracy, in the US and beyond? Join the 5th panel of “Historians on Democracy” on June 3, 11 a.m. EST/17 CET. With Deborah S. Gonzalez, Benjamin C. Hett, Mohamed Camara, Samuel Miner and Ute Frevert. Registr.: shorturl.at/YnnlH
June 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The SAI is launching a (up to) three-month fellowship program in cooperation with the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies Delhi (MWF). The program is aimed at young researchers from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh who wish to establish a research collaboration with the SAI.
May 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Am nächsten Dienstag geht es bei den Historians on Democracy @democracyhistory.bsky.social um transatlantische Bündnisse. 🗺️

🔗Jetzt anmelden und mitdiskutieren: uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📅 20 Mai | 17 Uhr | via Zoom & Youtube

#HistoriansonDemocracy #Democracy #skystorians 🗃️
Flyer der Online-Reihe "Historians on Democracy"
May 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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"New on the GHIL #Podcast! 🎧

Coinciding with tonight's #ThyssenLecture, our latest episode is a recording of the fourth lecture in our series in collaboration with the Fritz Thyssen Foundation on 'Science, Knowledge, and the Legacy of Empire', given by Dhruv Raina
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May 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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#Deadline today. Hurry up!!
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May 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Thinking Between Languages conference @maxweberstiftung.de ends with panel discussion Simultaneous Interpretations: the Max Weber institutes as translators of languages, (academic) cultures, methodologies @ghilondon.bsky.social @ghiwashington.bsky.social @dhiroma.bsky.social @mwfdelhi.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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📣📰 Die neue Ausgabe unseres Magazins #WeltweitVorOrt ist da!

Im neuen Heft blicken wir auf aktuelle Diskurse zur Künstlichen Intelligenz in den Geisteswissenschaften.
🔗 Hier geht's zum ePaper: www.maxweberstiftung...

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May 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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🗣️Debarati Bagchi, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director @mwfdelhi.bsky.social is speaking at the transatlantic conversation series “Historians on Democracy”
📆Tuesday, May 6, 2025
🕔8.30 pm – 9.30 pm IST/11-12 a.m. EST/17-18 o’clock CET
For details and to register click 👇
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A Transatlantic Conversation Series
Part 3: Democratic Institutions We are pleased to announce that our Senior Fellow and Deputy Director Debarati Bagchi is one of the speakers at the 3rd panel in the transatlantic conversation series “...
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May 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Lars Aaberg from Jindal Global University (India) delivering a #talk on “The Incorporation of #LGBTQs in Bengaluru: Toward a new #sexual politics of risk”, as part of the #MWF Seminar Series at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
April 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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🗣️@mwfdelhi.bsky.social invites #applications from Germany-based doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars in the #humanitiesandsocialsciences for a 12 month #scholarship
Hurry up. Deadline is 15 May 2025. For details, go to mwfdelhi.hypotheses.org/14954
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Call for Applications: Early-career Writing Scholarships for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Scholars
The MWF Delhi invites applications from Germany-based doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars for a writing scholarships in the humanities and social sciences, to pursue scholarly projects that dr...
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April 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM