Christopher Roberts

@Chandan_Gowda73 @OUPAcademic @VidyashilpUni This looks great!

My Mysore book (US edition) came out a couple of days ago! The UK and India editions out in two months. I'm curious what readers will think. Thanks to Ashu Varshney for inviting me to publish in his Modern South Asia series @OUPAcademic @VidyashilpUni global.oup.com/academic/produ…

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Tesla received billions in government loans, tax credits and subsidies, making Elon Musk the world's richest person. The public? No equity stake, no profit-sharing, no guarantee of affordable access. My working paper with @rodrikdani has now been published in Industrial and Corporate Change. It explores the conditionalities—profit-sharing, reinvestment requirements, knowledge transfer—that can ensure industrial policy delivers public value, not just private wealth. [LINK IN NEXT POST]

This was an exceptional episode

I am delighted to share that my book Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom is published today. @IndianHistory_C @historycong @AAPIData. It explores the transnational history of Asianism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its role in shaping Indian anticolonialism against British rule. #AsianHistory #NewBook #PanAsianism #IndianHistory #GlobalSouth #postcolonial #GlobalHistory

Finally reading Christy Thornton's (@llchristyll) Revolution in Development, and it is fantastic

The science on wealth taxes is settled. People opposing it are either protecting their own wealth or letting ideology override evidence. Here is what the research actually says. 🧵👇

The Call for Papers for the Sixth Asian Legal History Conference, on 6-7 August 2026, hosted by the Faculty of Law, Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia, is now open! Applications are due by 1 April 2026. Please find the call here: mmu.edu.my/fol/alhc2026/

Mario just goes around changing the flags at Bowser's castles without solving any of the underlying problems that led to Bowser taking control in the first place. That's why he's been at this shit for 35 years with no results

In just under one week's time!

Join us online on November 4, from 5:30-7:00 HKT, for a talk by Dr. Kiran Mehta on her fantastic new book! law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/cct…

Please join us for this fantastic dual book talk on 22 October at 6:30, in person and online! law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/cct…

⁦@YinQingfei⁩ ‘s talk at ShanghaiTech University! Dr Yin is an associate professor of history at the London School of Economics.

New ep of @thedigradio is sharing an incredible story from @signalhillfm: Robin D.G. Kelley listening back to old tapes of interviews w sharecroppers he conducted in the 1980s while researching Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression thedigradio.com/podcast/pie-do…

Call for Papers - Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present 17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location) Deadline 31 October 2025 law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/cal…

Fantastic and very important paper & episode

From Porter, Critics of Empire (2nd ed 2007)