Manan Ahmed
@sepoy.bsky.social
historian, walker. Author, *A Book of Conquest*, *The Loss of Hindustan*, and, most recently, *Disrupted City*
https://history.columbia.edu/person/manan-ahmed/
https://history.columbia.edu/person/manan-ahmed/
📣 11/11 @ 6pm: Book panel for Subah Dayal’s *Between Household and State: The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India*. Come thru!
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November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
📣 11/11 @ 6pm: Book panel for Subah Dayal’s *Between Household and State: The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India*. Come thru!
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Extremely lucky to have seen in person, at The MET, Zarina's *Letters from Home* series. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Extremely lucky to have seen in person, at The MET, Zarina's *Letters from Home* series. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
today, 11/06! Book launch at NYU *Decolonizing Afghanistan* (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2025 )with MATTHIEU AIKINS, WAZHMAH OSMAN, ZOHRA SAED, MORWARI ZAFAR! Come thru! docs.google.com/forms/d/19ZG...
November 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
today, 11/06! Book launch at NYU *Decolonizing Afghanistan* (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2025 )with MATTHIEU AIKINS, WAZHMAH OSMAN, ZOHRA SAED, MORWARI ZAFAR! Come thru! docs.google.com/forms/d/19ZG...
Edel Rodriguez’s “Mayor Mamdani” (November 4, 2025) www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Edel Rodriguez’s “Mayor Mamdani” (November 4, 2025) www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...
the man behind Z’s amazing videos @boringstein.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
the man behind Z’s amazing videos @boringstein.bsky.social
Pyar ki Aandhi ruk na sagay ki nafrat ki diwaron se! (The storm of Love will not be stopped by the walls of Hate) youtu.be/YGpJ_3c2gNU?...
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Pyar ki Aandhi ruk na sagay ki nafrat ki diwaron se! (The storm of Love will not be stopped by the walls of Hate) youtu.be/YGpJ_3c2gNU?...
11/23: I will be giving a lecture "Lahore: Common Threads of Culture in Hindustan" at Ossining Public Library from 1-4pm Please come thru!
November 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
11/23: I will be giving a lecture "Lahore: Common Threads of Culture in Hindustan" at Ossining Public Library from 1-4pm Please come thru!
Now out of print but this volume by Uma Chakravarti & Nandita Haksar *Delhi Riots: Three days in the life of a Nation* is essential reading on the anti-Sikh pogrom--Oct 31-Nov 3, 1984--in Delhi 🗃️
November 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Now out of print but this volume by Uma Chakravarti & Nandita Haksar *Delhi Riots: Three days in the life of a Nation* is essential reading on the anti-Sikh pogrom--Oct 31-Nov 3, 1984--in Delhi 🗃️
🔊 11/06: Book Launch at NYU for *Decolonizing Afghanistan*: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/decol...
November 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
🔊 11/06: Book Launch at NYU for *Decolonizing Afghanistan*: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/decol...
Loved hosting @esmat.bsky.social for his book launch alongside @jecca.bsky.social and Marissa Moorman (for our Radical Histories of Decolonization issue).
October 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Loved hosting @esmat.bsky.social for his book launch alongside @jecca.bsky.social and Marissa Moorman (for our Radical Histories of Decolonization issue).
Ilyas Chattha's *Citizens to Traitors: Bengali Internment in Pakistan, 1971-1974* (Cambridge UP, 2025) is one the most important books for contemporary subcontinental history in the last 15 years.
October 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Ilyas Chattha's *Citizens to Traitors: Bengali Internment in Pakistan, 1971-1974* (Cambridge UP, 2025) is one the most important books for contemporary subcontinental history in the last 15 years.
There once were giants. (CM Naim, Saleem Kidwai (standing), Ram Advani and Aslam Mahmud) scroll.in/article/8049...
October 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
There once were giants. (CM Naim, Saleem Kidwai (standing), Ram Advani and Aslam Mahmud) scroll.in/article/8049...
Portrait, Chair, Desk, Plaque--remnants of the Archeologist who surveyed and excavated Taxila🗃️
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Portrait, Chair, Desk, Plaque--remnants of the Archeologist who surveyed and excavated Taxila🗃️
Equally excited for Partha Chatterjee’s magnum opus *For a Just Republic*
October 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Equally excited for Partha Chatterjee’s magnum opus *For a Just Republic*
Long awaited and lovely to hold! Mahmood Mamdani’s brilliant new history *Slow Poison* 🗃️
October 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Long awaited and lovely to hold! Mahmood Mamdani’s brilliant new history *Slow Poison* 🗃️
If you haven't yet, go learn from Prof Rashid Khalidi's "Short Course on Palestine" peoplesforum.org/events/guest...
October 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If you haven't yet, go learn from Prof Rashid Khalidi's "Short Course on Palestine" peoplesforum.org/events/guest...
Everything is on fire but a day teaching in front of a paper formed, inked, colored, scripted, pasted, and held some 500 yrs ago (featuring a crushed testicle joke, natch) is a nice day.
October 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Everything is on fire but a day teaching in front of a paper formed, inked, colored, scripted, pasted, and held some 500 yrs ago (featuring a crushed testicle joke, natch) is a nice day.
I am really pleased that *A Book of Conquest* (2016) is now available locally in Pakistan via Sang-e-Meel Publications!
September 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I am really pleased that *A Book of Conquest* (2016) is now available locally in Pakistan via Sang-e-Meel Publications!