Aparna Kapadia
@KapadiaAparna
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Historian @WilliamsCollege|Off Center @Scroll_in, my column on South Asian history https://t.co/yNWg2dh13j
Joined December 2012
Earlier this year, I walked in Mumbai with fellow historian, Prashant Kidambi. In my latest for @scroll_in I write about our perambulations & attempts to ‘excavate’ the links between the city’s cosmopolitan past & Indian nationalism. #IndiaIndependence
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RT @nehavermani: 17th century garden in the Golconda fort has been torched under ASI’s consent to make room for a golf course. Heartbreakin…
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RT @PayalKapadia86: Unfortunately we didn’t get enough for Guwahati to organise a weekend screening yet :( If you have the time, can Guwaha…
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This is a super interesting book on business history and the history of how political power interacts with bankers and traders. Early modern pasts that are relevant to this day! Do go listen to @SudevSheth in your city.
Bankrolling Empire in India, open to the public and free! Looking forward to meeting you! New Delhi, December 18: Mumbai, January 6: Ahmedabad, January 7: Vadodara, January 8:
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Sunny winter day at #SunderNursery: picnics, gossip circles, lovers among Mughal ruins, old & new trees, water channels & plump marigolds. 90 acres of pure joy where everyone belongs! Reposting my essay on India's garden-history: @scroll_in #publicparks
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The best thing you’ll read today - it’s about conserving natural habitats, the benefits of collaborative research, and a touching tale of tiger love! By @AnthonyHamWrite @nytimes #trilobites #animalkins
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RT @AmitGuha2020: The Indian Constitution is the only one in the world to have images. The hand-made document took 5 years to create. Its…
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Get your tickets! #allweimagineaslight
#AllWeImagineAsLight opens in the following places in India tomorrow 1. Kerala 2. Chennai 3. Mumbai 4. Hyderabad 5. Bengaluru 6. Pune 7. Kolkata Tickets available on @bookmyshow
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Pumpkin Spice - The Fork Front: Despite its ubiquity in America, none of the component spices that constitute pumpkin spice originate in the U.S. (HT @GastroHistory). #IndianOcean #colonialhistory #spiceroutes #foodhistory
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“The language of language infects how we think about language.” Should a Country Speak a Single Language? asks @samanth_s in this rich profile of the admirable scholar, literary critic and writer, G.N. Devy @NewYorker
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RT @iameshansharma_: All We Imagine As Bombay — a Karwaan Heritage Walk like no other! Explore Lower Parel's historic streets with yours tr…
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@manohladargis @nyt writes @PayalKapadia86 “is offering you the gift of three lives that may seem altogether different from your own but are also and, finally, transcendently familiar.” Opening in cinemas today in the US!#allweimagineaslight @FilmLinc
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RT @samirpatil: There’s a sad irony in the fact that a drama so attuned to feelings of drift, and yet so deeply rooted in a sense of place,…
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How did Brandenburg’s 17th & 18th C. rulers participate in forms of ‘race-making’ that altered the perception not only of sub-Saharan Africans but of the princely lineage as well? Congratulations, Prof. Bevilacqua @WilliamsCollege @HistoryEph on his new essay in @PastPresentSoc
New on advance access: "Race-Making Festivities in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1652–1750" by Alexander Bevilacqua (@WilliamsCollege)
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RT @Laura_J_Martin: JOB: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Land Systems and Environmental Science at Williams College -- https://t…
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Makrand Mehta (1931-2024): Historian who studied a period of tumultuous change in Gujarat. “His death on the morning of September 1 draws the curtains on an era of Gujarati historiography,” writes Murali Ranganathan in @scroll_in
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