Rohan Deb Roy

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Rohan Deb Roy

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Historian of SouthAsia, colonialism, science, insects. Associate Professor @UniofReading. 'Malarial Subjects' (CUP,2017). Words @ConversationUK @Independent

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Rohan Deb Roy
Rohan Deb Roy@rohandroy·
'Decolonize Mosquitoes' . My recent article has been published at the History Workshop Journal @HistoryWO It proposes a conversation between animal history and decolonizing methods. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-ar…
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Rohan Deb Roy@rohandroy·
South Asia at Reading this semester Apurbaa Chatterjee (Kingston), Book launch: Visual Culture and the British in India Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford): Statue Stories: Robert Clive as an imperial icon Stenton Talk Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge): The Indian Ocean and Environment
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Rohan Deb Roy@rohandroy·
I am co-organising a workshop (with Dr Isabel Davis) on 'Colonies, hives and queens: Insects and Imperialism' at the Natural History Musuem in London on Thursday the 3rd of April. There will be a set of flash talks on the theme in the morning. Teams link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…
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Simon Schama@simon_schama·
Riyadh: quite an achievement for an American administration to hit moral rock bottom this soon and guarantee it will be remembered for its soiled betrayal of American decency and strategic wisdom
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Diogo de Carvalho Cabral@diogoccabral·
Come to study Environmental History (MPhil level) with us at Trinity College Dublin! Key strengths in Energy, Climate, Ocean, and Animal histories. I’m more than happy to answer questions about the course—please feel free to DM me! tcd.ie/courses/postgr…
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Stephenlegg@Stephenlegg11·
Delighted to see the 2nd edition of this classic is due out soon: a book that set my thinking ahead of work on prostitution and scalar sovereignty in colonial India, and written by the most inspiring mentor, friend,&colleague imaginable.... cambridge.org/gb/universityp…
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Anwesha Sengupta
Anwesha Sengupta@Anwesha_sg·
1. to keep the prices as low as possible, we are publishing itihashe hatekhori books with our own money. The bangla books will be available in Kolkata book fair. Free pdfs will remain available.
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Sara Salem
Sara Salem@saramsalem·
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…
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Jason Hickel
Jason Hickel@jasonhickel·
Racism is not a strong enough word for this garbage. Openly saying there should be one rule for white people and another for the rest of the world is apartheid, pure and simple. We've had 500 years of this colonial ideology and it must be destroyed.
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banojyotsna ...@banojyotsna·
In 1500 days, one can complete graduation, get experiences in jobs to move on, rusty teenagers turn into adults, scientific experiments might conclude. 1500 days is a long time. That's how long Umar & others are in jail, without trial, without bail. #umarkhalid1500daysinjail
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Alan Lester
Alan Lester@aljhlester·
Actually Elon, a great many people are mistaken in this belief. The trans-Atlantic system of slavery, dominated by Britons for most of the C18, was unprecedented in its scale, its commercial nature, its demographic effects, its effects in instituting racism, and its catalysing role in Britain’s Industrial Revolution. Upon emancipation it was slave-owners who were compensated rather than the enslaved; new forms of racialised labour exploitation emerged in emancipation’s wake (such as the indenture of a million Indians), and abolition proved quite compatible with entrenched racism and the invasion & occupation of new colonies. Far from ending other, global forms of slavery, British officials often tolerated them in these colonies. For more, perhaps read some of the work of experts rather than polemicists? hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth…
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Swati Moitra@swatiatrest·
Found Ravish Kumar's coverage of RG Kar really disappointing, falling over itself trying to blame the IT cell and paint the WB administration in a palatable light. Kumar fails to mention that things came to a head when the principal was simply sent to another college. 1/
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