Gyan Prakash
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Historian,Princeton University. author:Bonded Histories; Another Reason; Mumbai Fables; Spaces of the Modern city; Noir Urbanisms; Emergency Chronicles.
Princeton, NJ, USA
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As someone who wrote a history of the Emergency, I can say that what’s happening in India now is much worse: More systematic; no use of even the figleaf of law; media under control; stormtroopers on the ground to support a Govt of lies and hate.
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Teach in and protest against
#CAA
at Princeton University. Saturday, 3 pm. Organized by students.
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The Supreme court of India will never live down the shame of its complicity in the construction of Hindu Rashtra.
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Journalists labeling
#DelhiViolence
as full scale communal riot should be reminded of Nazi violence tagged as communist-Nazi clash in the 1930s. It is an anti-Muslim pogrom. Period.
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As India becomes an authoritarian Hindu rashtra, with police, courts, admn, media acting as the RSS’s willing executioners, dissenters killed or imprisoned, Kashmir muzzled, Muslims & Dalits lynched, the Emergency tyranny has been left far behind.
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The French opposed hijab in public because it was supposedly again republican universalism. And now?
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Princeton High School (PHS) students came today to the encampment to express their solidarity with the Princeton University students. Very encouraging to the hunger strikers now in their 7th day!
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Police violence in India is rooted in its British colonial origins as a coercive force to control the population. Us vs them is written into its history; it’s anti-Dalit and anti-Muslim character is a further twist in its history as a force of domination.
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The brazenness with which the state has mobilized its resources for Ram Mandir is staggering and obnoxious and signals what is to come from this RSS state. Shame on those liberals who are lamenting this now but welcomed Modi in 2014.
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You can’t make this shit up!
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Rahul Gandhi has emerged as a huge, principled leader. Priyanka, and Akhilesh have too risen in people’s estimation. Compared to the, the BJP leaders appear as bigots, mean spirited, and vacuous!
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“So far as the refugees are concerned... we accept as citizens anybody who calls himself a citizen of India.” Jawaharlal Nehru, Constituent Assembly, 1949.
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I’ve always hated the term “peace process” with respect to Palestine & Israel. Indians didn’t call the struggle with the British a peace process, nor did the Algerians against France. Peace process portrays the issue a border dispute when it is colonial occupation.
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Prabir Purukayastha arrested under UAPA! His unlawful detention in 1975 is nothing compared to this! Mother of Democracy? More like the graveyard of democracy.
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Protest at Princeton University against Hindutva violence.
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Hunger Strike by Princeton students for divestment and against genocide in Gaza enters the sixth day. The callous disregard of the Princeton authorities is shameful.
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Shaheen Bagh represented that rare moment in history between no more & not yet (Arendt), an opening when speech & action enacted a new vision of freedom, different from mere liberation from constraints. No wonder the Govt has gone after its activists with vengeance.
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In 1975, Indira cited a rule to justify her recommendation of emergency without a Cabinet approval. Now too a rule cited to justify the revocation of President’s rule in Maharashtra without cabinet meeting. Past & present looking more and more similar!
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What a fantastic article!
The Long Struggle of India’s Sanitation Workers | Ratik Asokan | The New York Review of Books
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@anuragkashyap72
Raising voice against a book is not banning it. Targeting a publisher for publishing a book without vetting or peer review is not banning it. Protesting against an event presided by Kapil Mishra to promote anti-Muslim propaganda styled is not against FoE.
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Opinion | India marks another day of erasure and insult against its Muslim citizens
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For the past five years or so, political analysts have despaired about a counter-narrative to BJP, imploring in the Congress in vain to provide one. The protests have provided one, and it is powerful and organic.
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Watching with dismay as the supposedly independent
#IndianExpress
routinely publishing BJP election propaganda. Today, a full page interview with Amit Shah. Who needs censorship when you have pliant newspapers?
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Le Pen came third, the Front Populaire came first! Big celebration at the Place de la République! Huge, huge crowd, joyous, dancing.
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Given
@RanaAyyub
‘s telling expose of this man’s past in Gujarat, no surprise that he continues to practice his dark arts with impunity.
Fact-finding report points Delhi violence finger at
@AmitShah
The report breaks new ground by listing several specific instances of violence and highlights several identical FIRs and confessions cited by the police as well as complaints of torture
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You’ve lost the moral right to invoke the Emergency to protect your government and party’s blood-stained record. From now on people will cite Gujarat 2002 & Delhi 2020 as the benchmark of oppression.
We respect independence of judiciary. Record of Congress in compromising independence of judiciary, superseding judges even of Supreme Court during Emergency is well known.They rejoice only when the judgment is of their liking otherwise raise questions on the institutions itself.
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Incredibly sad and hard to believe that Ranajit Guha has passed away. His groundbreaking works will stay with us forever.
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Jairus Banaji’s original FB posts on radical left-wing intellectuals now collected in a volume. A real gem!
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Modi’s claim to equal Nehru’s record of returning three time as PM rings hollow when you consider that Nehru became PM three times with the Congress retiring in majority all those those times. That has eluded Modi. He can never equal Nehru, never!
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Now the pro-Israeli lobby is conclusively defining intifada as a call for genocide? Really? And these presidents of universities cannot bring them to say that calls for uprising against oppression is legitimate free speech? The settler-colonial lobby must be defeated!
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Any chance that the CAA could be amended along the following lines?
“So far as the refugees are concerned... we accept as citizens anybody who calls himself a citizen of India.” Jawaharlal Nehru, Constituent Assembly, 1949.
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Princeton Students Solidarity with Palestine. Happening now.
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New Postdoctoral program in Princeton .
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An excellent panel.
Panel of Prominent Ex Judges, Senior IAS-IPS Officers to Independently Probe Delhi Riots.
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Is there a limit to the Israeli cruel vengeance? No Western outrage over this?
Palestinian men stripped to underwear and paraded through Gazan square by IDF
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Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South: Histories of Internationalism Jeremy Adelman Bloomsbury Academic
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Israel bombs Iranian consulate in Syria, Iran retaliates, US springs to Israel’s defense. All logical, no?
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I get it that Israel is on a vengeful, scorched earth ethnic cleansing drive. This is not new, it is part of the settler-colonial regime. The US veto of a ceasefire resolution is clearly signals that Biden and the Democratic Party are full participants in war crimes.
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If you are a white man in America, you can walk down the street, gun down people and claim self-defense.
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Congratulations
@dillivali
AIIS 2022 Book Prizes Awarded to Divya Cherian and Anna Seastrand - American Institute of Indian Studies
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The Fix is on?
According to SY Quraishi, ex-CEC commissioner, the change in voting % days after the initial data at the end of the day is unexplainable since the EVM is sealed and locked at day end. So, how the change ? The SC also dropped the ball.
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Arrived in cold rainy Delhi with Covid raging and the National Archives closed!
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A bright undergraduate read Arundhati Roy’s intro to Ambedkar’s Annihilation of caste & asked if she was right in calling Gandhi’s assassination a fratricidal killing. I said no, it was hyperbolic, shorn of historical context, politically paralyzing.
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So glad to learn that my work in “Bonded Histories” on the history of the Dalit Bhuinya laborers has sparked research on marginalized Dalit communities in Bihar, often in Hindi. There’s nothing more satisfying.
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@AshaRangappa_
This explanation would hold water if the US weren’t an imperial power. So even with the end of the bad old days of the 50-70s, there were still black sites and renditions inspite of “oversight” in place. /1
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@AshaRangappa_
2/ Your explanations on the necessity of intelligence ignore the CIA’s actual history in US imperialism, which didn’t end in the 70s. Without that history, the thread reads like propaganda for US imperial power. End
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Money Trail: Diaspora Diplomacy’s Financial Whitewashing of Hindutva - The Polis Project, Inc
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Modi’s India Has Now Entered Genocidalism, the Most Advanced Stage of Nationalism via
@thewire_in
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It is astounding that the US admin, police, universities are willing to upend democracy, the right to peaceful protest and civil disobedience traditions to protect a foreign government’s - Israel ‘s - genocidal war!Does AIPAC money go that far?
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Saw
#BombayVelvet
. I'm biased but it is stunning! Superb performances & visually brilliant.
#anuragkashyap72
big hug!
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Not content with capturing institutions, the BJP is also distorting the electoral system. Why? Because like all dictatorships, it’s unsure of public opinion as it can’t trust the godi media. So, it deploys ever greater intimidation.
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Remembering what Edward Said once said to me: I just want to feel just once what winning feels like!
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The Art of Solitude: In the songs of ‘Gaman’, an echo of what ‘home’ means for Mumbai’s immigrants
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#Hathras
. “The horror! The horror! “ It’s clear that the horror of the Hindutva autocracy has left the Emergency far behind.
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If Biden thinks that delivering a pitiful US humanitarian assistance to Gazans who will be killed by US supplied bombs is going to win him votes, he is living in a fool’s paradise. He will pay a price for enabling genocide, and rightly so.
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Inviting Shazia Ilmi to deliver a keynote address is different from inviting her to be a panelist. Protesting against it is not cancel culture but a familiar right-wing ploy while practicing systematic oppression of Muslims, Dalits, and dissent. Shame on JLF!
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@GenMhayden
It’s very revealing that Trump has appointed the worst of the worst, the most corrupt, the biggest liars and sycophants as his top officials.
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Bodies and citizens. Panel at Princeton University. Rohit De, Suchitra Vijayan, Sahana Ghosh, and Dina Siddiqi. Packed room. But Bhakts came in force to disrupt but failed!
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Time to remember Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s poem composed to celebrate the formation of the constitutional republic in 1950, and recited by JP in 1975: Sinhasan khali karo ki Janata aati hai (Vacate the throne, for the people are coming)
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The choice in the 2024 election in the US wi be between a war criminal and a neo-fascist.
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In which Yogendra Yadav creams both Rajdeep Sardesai and Rahul Kanwal! Delicious.
I have to say this,
@_YogendraYadav
, in this clip, has Bruce Lee'd Chuck Rahul Kanwal Norris in the brutal "way of the dragon"
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For long it’s been said that what Bengal thinks today India thinks tomorrow. Here’s hoping that what Bihar thinks today India thinks tomorrow!
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Please read.
‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe | Coronavirus | The Guardian
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Orban in Hungary packed the courts to gain compliance. BJP in India hasn’t had to do it; the courts just surrendered to its will on Kashmir, CAA, the detention of Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavar Rao & countless others, and now Rajasthan.
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‘Emergency Chronicles’: How Prabir Purakayastha was abducted from the JNU campus by the police
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Linda Sarsour speaks at Princeton in solidarity with students
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Raja Krishnamoorthi: The RSS’s Man in US Congress | by Pieter Friedrich | Sep, 2020 | Medium
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Excerpts and reviews of Obama’s memoir suggests it’s completely self serving. Campaigned on “yes we can” & governed with Wall Street insiders & Dem establishment. He’s at least partially responsible for Trump. Only knew how to win himself & destroyed the party.
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1.8 million Gazans Displaced; nearly 15000 Killed; now those displaced from the north to south being bombed. Is there a limit to Israeli crimes? And who will impose it ?
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I understand why the BJP goes after the Gandhi family, but why do the others, opposed to the HINDUTVA brigade, also pile on the family as if it is obligatory to do so in order to critique the BJP?
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There’s straight line from Advani-Vajpayee to Modi, just as there is one from Nixon’s southern strategy, Bush, Tea Party to Trump. All birds of a feather.
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Gyan Prakash | The New York Review of Books
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Jean Dreze is a national treasure.
.
@OnReality_Check
| "When I looked at the NIA chargesheet, he was accused among other things of having promoted enmity between different communities. That for me is enough to understand that this chargesheet is a morass of absurd accusations" : Jean Dreze, Activist
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In these bleak times, my graduating Princeton students provide a ray of hope. I'm heartened by the languages they have learned & their openness to new knowledge and thinking. As they venture out into the world, I have nothing but confidence in them. So young but so inspiring!
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This government is based on lies and propaganda.
Liars! Sitharaman says HAL/Dassault deal for 126 Rafales with tech transfer & Make-in-India of 108 Rafales by HAL fell through because HAL& Dassault couldn't work together under UPA. Totally false says Eric Trappier, CEO of Dassault. HAL/Dassault deal was withdrawn by Modi govt
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@irfhabib
Why is it that the right-wing globally is always so vile? Mean to the bone, hateful, and all the basest of emotions!
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Great opportunity under the theme of "Colonial Residues."
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@seemay
No comfort in seeing 1975 repeated in 2021. As illegitimate now as then. It also makes sense that the GOI never issued a no objection certificate in 2016 to enable me to conduct research on the Emergency under Fulbright.
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Forget BJP’s Three Seats, CPI (M) Won Five Seats In DDC Polls In South Kashmir
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@anuragkashyap72
@ManishC_Actor
@AnushkaSharma
standing ovation at the packed house screening of
#BombayVelvet
at the Princeton premiere.
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Morning thought: Imagine a world without and all that they represent - Trump, Modi, Bolsonaro, Duterte, Erdogan, Orban, Boris Johnson!
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The media is so myopic and their ignorance is so infuriating. They keep talking about how this only happens in a Third World country when the US itself engineered coups there! Do we need to list them?
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The outrage was against the event with Kapil Mishra as also against the publisher. Given the authors and the publicity, questions arose: Did the book undergo peer review? Did it meet standards of fact-checking? These questions do not pertain FoE.
It would be fine if the book was in fiction category. Presenting propaganda as fact & demonising victims doesn't fall under right to offend. Lies were being published, they were rightly called out and the book was rightly withdrawn
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Biden May squeak through but it’s sobering to know that roughly 40% plus Americans are racists!
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Edward Said asked during the Iraq war: When will we resist? People are coming out in hundreds of thousands against the Israeli genocidal campaign & its Western enablers.
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Supreme Court orders release of NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha, declares his arrest illegal via
@scroll_in
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