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Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History by @OrnitShani and @itihaasnaama is out later this year with @CambridgeUP (cover below) and @PenguinIndia cambridge.org/core/books/ass…

📢 #AIIS Dissertation to Book Workshop Applications are now open! Part of the Annual Conference on South Asia at UW Madison, this workshop helps recent PhDs transform their dissertations into books. Workshop: October 21-22, 2025 Deadline: July 15, 2025 indiastudies.org/book-prize/dis…

Now in HINDI, BANGLA, and TAMIL: In "The Tamil Voter: Savvy or Starstruck?" @mailradhakumar (@SyracuseU) challenges the trope that cinema paves an assured path to electoral success in Tamil Nadu politics. casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/translatio…

In "The Tamil Voter: Savvy or Starstruck?" @mailradhakumar (@SyracuseU) challenges the trope that cinema paves an assured path to electoral success in Tamil Nadu politics. casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/radha-kumar

SUCH a good piece on BJP and caste politics in UP & Bihar. ⁦@thecaravanindia⁩ caravanmagazine.in/politics/ebc-o…

1/6. Tata Institute of Social Sciences suspension of Dalit scholar P. S. Ramadas for alleged ‘anti-national’ activity is appalling. This must mark the lowest point TISS has seen in its distinguished history in both leadership and action.#TISS #DALIT

Today, we are releasing a subset of the findings from the (unofficial) 2024 U-M Community Survey on Anti-Palestinian Bias and Islamophobia. Full report here: tinyurl.com/5n89yrwm A🧵on the survey, some highlights, and what the findings mean 1/n

Tambrahm musical establishment’s fragility and pearl clutching are something to behold. Kind of doing Periyars work for him posthumously. @tmkrishna

I have some bad news - buried in the appropriations bill being voted on this week is a terrible new gun policy rider that significantly rolls back the firearms background check system. 1/ You need to know about this - it’s bad enough that I will vote against the entire bill.

The women making iPhones in India live in hostels that don't allow them to venture out during the week for anything other than the commute to the factory Read @Johanna_Deeksha's eye-opening report scroll.in/article/106402…

Posted Today: Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History | Columbia University Department of History dlvr.it/Sw3fpv

Open rank search at History of Art at Yale on South Asian art and architecture h-net.org/jobs/job_displ…

Please reach out if you wish to access the collection of Professor Karen Leonard ( Professor Emerita, University of California Irvine) I post this message on her behalf.

I’m thrilled to be guest editing a thematic dossier on Indian Ocean histories to be published in 2025. Please share the call for papers widely and consider contributing! Thanks @medievalqabq and @zaydeantrim for this exciting opportunity!

Hearing shocking stories from friends in Gurugram about the aftermath of the violence: charred streets, homes abandoned by Muslims. That this is happening in a tech hub that is seen as the symbol of tomorrow's India bodes very ill for the future. reuters.com/world/india/in…

Harindranath Chattopadhyay (1898 – 1990) was a poet, dramatist, actor, painter musician and a member of the 1st Lok Sabha. He used his Curd Seller verses as a weapon to hit out at the then Government’s policies and follies. After the Railway Budget speech, he rose and said, 🧵+

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Madras HC appoints retired judge to probe Vengavayal caste crime thenewsminute.com/article/madras…

@UnitedAirlines we have a flight booking for Auckland to sfo. Your systems can't detect the confirmation code. The flight doesn't exist for today. we are at Auckland airport. There is nobody from united airlines here. We are on hold with united for an hour.