meghna chaudhuri

Acknowledging the ‘splainers who inadvertently shaped the paths my research took #downwithpatriarchy #cancelsplainers

Excited to share my essay for @epw_in where I write about all things cities - memory, modernity, history, planning and resistance. There are bits about Delhi's urban (and epistemic) politics and eight lines of poetry at the end because why not! epw.in/journal/postsc…

Free Gifts is officially out today!!

How to Election Commission amid adverse circumstances managed to create an inclusive electoral roll in the 1950s from @OrnitShani How India Became Democratic thewire.in/books/how-elec…

My article - on how three Environment ministers between 2009-14 intervened in the debate over #GMcrops - is out in the Annals of @theAAG. It provides a rare ethnography of the politics of expertise at the interface between senior bureaucrats and the union cabinet of ministers.

@navyuggill @AgHistorySoc @stanfordpress congrats, this is wonderful.

Deeply honored that my book has won the Agricultural History Society's 2024 "Henry A. Wallace Award" for the best book on agricultural history outside the US. Reaping and sowing et al. aghistorysociety.org/news/award-rec… @AgHistorySoc @stanfordpress

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Excited to make my EPW debut with @HurryUpKartik in their special issue on Review of Gender Studies. We look at Indian family law especially the use of restitution of conjugal rights by husbands to extract unpaid carework from wives. Article link: epw.in/journal/2025/2…

No written word can do justice to the power and beauty of the stories I heard in Kashmir. But I tried. Thrilled to announce the India edition of my book, with lovely cover art by Basita Shah, is out on 7th July. Pre-orders here: amzn.in/d/7NuVhNn

A nice review of Fictions of Financialization in @IJURResearch: ijurr.org/book_review/fi…

My book, Harvests of Liberation, is officially out with @stanfordpress. It offers an account of decolonization in Egypt through the history of cotton/capitalism. Excerpts available here: sup.org/books/middle-e…

A long time in the making, our @RadHistReview special issue is finally out now. It delves into the phenomenon of economic miracles and their afterlives unfolding across the world. Do check out!

📕 My chapter in “The Greater Second World War” — traces the links across labor & racial & imperial struggles — in the heat of the worldwide postwar moment. Looking at what I consider as a global uprising of “1946” — helps to shed new light on global politics then, and since…

The South Asian version of my book is available from today. I see it listed on amazon.in for Rs. 559! amazon.in/Disinherited-P…

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Wrote this piece on anticolonial archives, memory and time, thinking about how anticolonial pasts express themselves in the present, and what kinds of archives hold these expressions read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic…

lol or the only economist historians ever cite or maybe that’s just me 👀

“When a professional tennis player’s feet land after a serve, close to 300 Newton-metres of torque will have been shared between her arms and trunk. (The average car engine generates about 200 Newton-metres of torque to turn its wheels.)”

Building upon the work of Manu Goswami, Sai Balakrishnan, Neil Brenner, & Ed Simpson among others, I explore the production of new state space through highway infrastructure-led extended urbanisation. I follow the environmental state politics & political economic slippages..(1/3)