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Professor of South Asian History. Currently researching histories of environmental regeneration, 1940s-present. Nehru and all that, too.

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Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths has just come out in the US! Read the first chapter free at @PrincetonUPress To mark the occasion, here's a thread with some of the arguments...
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Took my daughter to the library at USyd yesterday. Marvelling at the endless books, she danced through the stacks, threw open her arms and declared, "I'm in heaven". A reminder of how universities are meant to make us feel.
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I resigned my professorship a few months ago. With my three-page resignation letter, I sent 3 books. Call it a resignation reading list for the LSE leadership, who could learn so much from @amiasrinivasan @SaraNAhmed and @kate_manne
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1/2 More than a dozen women at the LSE have held each other up through this. As a full professor with a secure job, I can put my name to our efforts. But let me reassure you, the others are stronger than me. They've gotten jobs. They're writing books. And they are not done.
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🚨Everyone stop right now and read this article about LSE's appalling response to abusive prof. This has been YEARS in the making: 'Women silenced across ranks: LSE’s mishandled sexual misconduct investigation into professor'
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Job! Two-year teaching post-doc in London with primary focus on India, ideal for someone working on South Asia across the 1947 divide.
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Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths is published in South Asia today! In spite of the sombre cover, researching this book was a great pleasure. Although the themes are serious, there were many moments of levity that made me chuckle. Here's a lighter fact for each myth:
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First day at my new job. Thanks to everyone at the School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW for being so welcoming...
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My piece in The Hindustan Times laying out new thinking on secularism, socialism and nonalignment in the Nehru years. Available without subscription. @PrincetonUPress @lsehistory
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Two recent positive reviews of Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths. It's wonderful (and a wonderful relief!) when a Distinguished Professor such as Sumit Ganguly has kind words for one's book.
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What did I do? I listened to the women. I believed the women. I supported the women in their calls for justice. And I asked the senior-most people at LSE to do the same. Nothing out of the ordinary, and yet the hardest thing I've done.
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If you're a woman thinking of applying for the Assistant Professor in Modern South Asian History job recently advertised, these will be essential reading.
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Just spent three amazing days at the @Archives_NCBS in Bangalore, which is shaping up to be one of India's premier archives for the history of science, agriculture, ecology and conservation. This beautiful blue jay is from the Carl D'Souza collection. 1/n
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I've agreed (foolishly, no doubt!) to write a chapter on the history of economic development in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, c.1930s to the present. There's heaps of great research out there, but what do you read for broad brush ideas or histories about Development?
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Historians of independent India: don't let anyone convince you to move to the colonial period because there are more records before 1947! Take note of these non-official archival collections. Thanks for alerting us to these sources @vandana_menon
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New project. Same old system at the NAI. 9/10 of my first batch of requests come back NT (Not Transferred). Sigh. Chai peene ja rahi hun.
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Lovely to receive a copy of @afsartelugu 's fabulous new book!This work is a model for how to use non-official sources to produce new interpretations of key events like the Police Action in Hyderabad. A must read, even among this year's bumper crop of histories of the Nehru years.
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Excited to be heading to BHU for a day of workshops with students and a discussion of Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths.
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Thank you to Dr Apoorvanand ( @Apoorvanand__ ) and the audience at Jawahar Bhawan for the engaging conversation this evening, reflecting on Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths.
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Very much looking forward to this talk in Delhi tonight:
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CPR India
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Book talk on 'Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths' Speaker: @TaylorCSherman , Professor of Modern South Asian History @LSEnews Friday, 17 February 2023, 5:00 PM IST at the CPR office conference room. Register here:
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Twitter friends, I've been lucky enough to see an advanced copy of this poignant literary and social history of Hyderabad after the Police Action - it is a beautiful and important book.
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Afsar Mohammad
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Very happy to share that I just finished the first round of proofreading for my forthcoming book on Hyderabad “Remaking History “from the Cambridge University Press!!!
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Thank you, @apar1984 for this incisive review and for recommending Nehru's India to your viewers! I love the mischievous suggestion that my book might be gifted as a form of punishment to those who spread knavish history via whatsapp!
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Apar
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Yesterday as India celebrated the birth anniversary of our first Prime Minister it also marked the high point of a disinformation project called "Blame it on Nehru". To sift, fact from fiction, I review @TaylorCSherman 's book 'Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths'.
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Absolutely lovely to be back in Hyderabad! I'm looking forward to this discussion of Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths @HydUniv today.
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The use, abuse and erasure of Nehru's image, name and legacy was everywhere during the celebrations of India's independence this past week. What can historians do with this highly politicised figure? A few options in a thread:
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Secularism: In 1956, India held huge celebrations to mark the 2500th year since the birth of the Buddha. Prisoners in UP were treated to a "jail holiday" including a special meal. At Sanchi the ceremonies included relics recently returned from the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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"Sherman is informative and analytical at the same time. The book deserves wide reading in India." Thank you Rishav Sharma and @newsclickin for this generous review of Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths
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Thank you @AiyarYamini , @SushantSin and the audience at @CPR_India for your great questions and a fantastic conversation!
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Prof @TaylorCSherman speaking on her book ‘Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths’ at @CPR_India . A full house on a Friday evening.
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I'm finally reading this and it is brilliant! I feel like an undergrad again as I'm taking so many notes. The book is historically grounded, based on deep contemporary fieldwork, and contains far-reaching arguments. Just one of them: "there are no inevitable climate futures".
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Kasia Paprocki
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Threatening Dystopias is now out!
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High Modernism: In 1955 India held its first National Exhibition of Art. There were 1025 entries from 335 artists competing for a top prize of Rs2,000. The judges declined to give out the top award, telling artists to make a better effort for the next competition.
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A belated thank you to @JhaPHerstories and the students and faculty at BHU for an energising day of conversation yesterday!
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I had a lovely conversation with Anubha Anushree for New Books in South Asian Studies, and we began by dispelling a myth about Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths - this is not really a book about Nehru! Thanks for the chat, Anubha.
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Full arguments and evidence - plus chapters on democracy, the strong state, and high modernism - are in the book.
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Just discovered the paintings of Bireswar Sen at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru. Each watercolour is no bigger than a smartphone, but sliding the magnifying glass over them is like opening a tiny box to reveal an entire world, each with a reserved profoundity.
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Had a really good discussion with Milan Vaishnav about the Nehru years for the Grand Tamasha podcast. Also discovered we both like to listen to podcasts at 1.5x speed. So to do this recording justice, do fiddle with the speed settings!
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Milan Vaishnav
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New on #GrandTamasha : What if the foundations of the 'Nehruvian consensus'--nonalignment, secularism, socialism, democracy, the strong state, & high modernism--are just myths? @TaylorCSherman joins me to discuss her provocative new book, "Nehru's India"
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Just finished this complicated, devastating book. There's so much to think with, but my first thoughts are with women who've appealed for justice to trusted authorities & been given only half-measures or nothing at all, women who are forced to fight for dignity, for life.
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Speaking (in person, today) about the Indians who made their own modernisms in the 1950s and 1960s, including the architect Urmila Eulie Chowdhury, the development economist Sudhir Sen, the inventor S.P. Raju, and the artist and art critic Jaya Appasamy
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King's Empires & Decolonization Hub
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The Imperial and World History Seminar is forward to @TaylorCSherman 'Myth of Authoritarian High Modernism in Independent India', Monday 4 July 5.30 at @ihr_history :
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Non-alignment: In 1955, as relations opened up between the 2 countires, the Soviet Union's men's football team toured India. They won all 19 games they played against Indian teams, scoring over 100 goals, and conceding only 4.
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What company you keep in Hyderabad @MarcDavidBaer1 ! If it were my book, I'd have left it in the presence of Octavia Butler, but in this case I moved these lovelies from the Mystery to the History section at Himalaya Book World.
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Starting our sabbatical in the beautiful land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation.  New research project: histories of South Asian environmentalism. Current obsession: popular tree planting drives, including the Van Mahotsav.  Excited to join the convo here @Sydney_Uni
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Feminist fiction fans add this to your must-read list! A woman fakes a pregnancy and gains respect at work and social acceptance. The premise lies somewhere between satire and science-fiction for most women, and Emi Yagi uses it for understated social critique.
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Loved this! Kajri Jain argues India's giant statues are not just about Hindu nationalism. She connects their construction to nationalism, democracy and caste assertion, but also to the rise of the automobile and the deregulation of cement.
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Dr. Raj Balkaran
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Had a great @NewBooksNetwork conversation with Kajri Jain of @UofT about her new @DukePress title, "Gods in the Time of Democracy." Available on all podcast platforms!
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I have used both these methods in my work, Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths. You can read my chapter on Nehru as a free preview on the @PrincetonUPress website.
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7. India in this period was confidently internationalist. India's leaders did not see their country as a marginal player in the dramas of the age. They sought to mould the international system and to export India's experiences to decolonising countries in Asia & Africa.
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Democracy: In the first general elections of 1951-2, many candidates exceeded the spending limit of Rs.25,000. One candidate was said to have spent 5 lakhs and bought 1000 bicycles to win votes.
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The Strong State: Between 1950 and 1964 the state of Bombay/Maharashtra had Prohibition. Residents responded with widespread bootlegging, smuggling booze in everything from fishing baskets to hollowed out books.
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Read the first chapter as a free preview.
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Socialism: Many states nationalised road transport in the 1940s, in part to keep buses from competing with trains. For passengers, state control brought regular timetables, fixed bus stops and waiting rooms with snacks and loos. Employees acquired canteens, clubs & paid holidays.
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"a seminal book to return to and draw inspiration from for reimagining historiography and conceiving contemporary discourse on India" Thank you @pgaurbhat and LSE Review of Books for this lovely review of Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths!
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LSE Review of Books
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New Book Review: Poorvi Gaur reviews Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths by @lsehistory 's Professor Taylor C Sherman @PrincetonPress
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Absolutely loved this article on how solar energy was feminised and ruralised as it became part of development strategies. Historians of independent India: note the impressive range of sources @natterjee has found - the sources are out there!
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liz chatterjee
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Ever wondered about the history of solar energy and why it didn’t take off sooner? A few answers from my article "The Poor Woman’s Energy: Low-Modernist Solar Technologies & International Development, 1878–1966," hot off the presses @GlobalHistJnl (🔓!)
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Wow! The first review is already out - thanks @curbset for your careful reading of Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths. The official publication date is just around the corner - I can't wait to get my copies from @PrincetonUPress @lsehistory
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Siddharth Singh
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Was Nehru’s India—as described by his apologists—real or was it just a collection of myths. On Taylor Sherman’s Nehru and his age. @Openthemag
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Do read this powerful, beautifully written piece by @monika_bd about being a woman of colour in Security Studies/International Relations, and the wider academy.
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Many thanks to @pratinavanil for this review of Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths, and for reminding me that coruscating has multiple meanings (I think I prefer option 1!).
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Greatly enjoyed @TaylorCSherman 's elegant, coruscating, myth-busting history of Nehru's India. My review in @TheTLS :
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I still delight in the fact that when I review a book, I get paid in books! Received @gdrhistoria 's carefully researched book in just such an exchange, and I have learned a lot. It's a reminder that environmentalism never was the monopoly of The West (however defined).
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No doubt it'll be hard yakka at times (hope I'm saying that right, Aussie friends?!?), but walking each evening from office to home with Coogee Beach in view might just help ease the stress a bit.
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I want to give a shout out to Tim Martin, Digital Director @CarnegieEndow who edited this podcast. Tip o' the hat to Tim and to all sound engineers: in cutting out our flubs and restarts, they seem to add IQ points to us humbly-wumbly academics!
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Milan Vaishnav
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Historian @TaylorCSherman was my guest on #GrandTamasha this week. We discussed her revisionist take on Nehru and the 'Nehruvian consensus.' Full episode here: And be sure to check out her thought-provoking book, "Nehru's India":
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6. This era marked the zenith of the power of India's upper-caste, upper-class elites. Operating in pedagogical mode, they sought to repurpose India's existing hierarchies, not abolish them.
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4. Popular mobilisation remained important in the Nehru years. Postcolonial nationalism was a complicated dance: India's leaders sought to rouse in ordinary Indians the will to demand more from government, even as they sought to shape exactly what could be demanded of government.
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Such a lovely place for a young historian or archivist to work in Bangalore...
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Archives at NCBS
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Archiving Internship for students and recent graduates! Between Apr-Dec, 2024 Minimum of 8 weeks, in-person #archives #history #Science @NCBS_Bangalore @BLiSC_India
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Someimes to truly understand an historical figure, you have to start with their death. I'm learning a lot from Holy Week, an exploration of the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination, by Vann Newkirk.
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1. The abstract nouns most strongly associated with Nehru - non-alignment, secularism, socialism, the strong state, democracy and high modernism - have lost their explanatory power. They have become myths. So how can we characterise this period?
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5. The leaders of independent India experimented with administrative structures, trying to transform the colonial bureaucracy into an administration suited to a free India. The seminal government projects of the age were designed at a distance from the existing bureaucracy.
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3. Rather than being an era of ideological conformity, this was an age of experimentation. India's leaders engaged the methods of mid-century social science as they experimented in fields from low-cost housing to international relations.
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@stethospeaks Books on Bengal not mentioned yet: Joya Chatterji, Bengal Divided (1994), The Spoils of Partition (2007), and The Bengal Diaspora (2015). Uditi Sen, Citizen Refugee (2018). Paulomi Chakraborty, The Refugee Woman (2018). Anindita Ghoshal, Refugees, Borders and Identities (2020).
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My starting point on Wednesday: the idea that India pursued "Soviet style" socialism in the Nehru Years is a myth fostered by right-wing opposition groups.
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Kankan Xie 谢侃侃
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Prof. @TaylorCSherman from @lsehistory is going to give a talk to the @PKU1898 community titled '“A New Type of Revolution”: Rethinking Socialism in Nehru's India, 1947-1964'. The webinar starts at 19:00 Wed, May 25 Beijing time (12:00 London). Welcome to join us via zoom.
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@BangashYK @amiasrinivasan @SaraNAhmed @kate_manne Read the books, and you'll understand what happened.
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Campus is beautiful, and the canteen is fab (stuff yourself for under Rs.50). If heaven has an archive section, it looks like this.
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Partha Chatterjee's 'Development Planning and the Indian State', and David Ludden's 'India's Development Regime' are now three decades old and I'm looking for newer takes. #AcademicTwitter #twitterstorians
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Inspiring women talking about inspiring women! Some of my favourite people speaking at this event, so I'll be staying up late to catch what they have to say...
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LSE Library
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Join an esteemed panel of historians and writers online today at 1pm for The Awakening of Indian Women book launch!
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I found myself nodding along with the argument that "the urban [is] a tentative condition of becoming that is always on the move and inter-mixed with its non-urban other." Also agree one should not question Parisiens when it comes to pastry!
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@FramkeMaria Thanks, Maria! Here's an image I mention but couldn't include in the final text. This awesome young woman is Miss Mainanath Sultan. She ran the Welfare Extension Project in Okhla, near Delhi in 1955, visiting villages on her motorcycle. From the magazine, Social Welfare (1955).
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A great article rethinking the relationship between the state and the people in early independent India.
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Sandip Kana
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'Voluntarism in partition’s aftermath: the Faridabad story' - happy to have this piece published in Contemporary South Asia!
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There are a lot of new works on the Nehru years. This research challenges the 'wisdom of the elders' about this period. I included as much as I could in a course called Independent India: Myths of Freedom & Development. Syllabus here: Updates welcome!
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Manali Kumar
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Folks - I'm putting together a syllabus for an introductory course on Indian Society & Politics since 1947. What are some of your favorite readings, movies, podcasts to assign? Grateful for any recommendations!
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@akkhan81 The best scholarship doesn't set out to prove or refute the drain of wealth argument. Rather, it explores a sector, region or social group & traces complex, contradictory changes during the colonial encounter. The overall effect cannot be collapsed into a word - drain or growth.
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Looking for some suggestions for my 10y.o. son from ppl with #autism who also love #Transport #TFL . What else are you into? My son loves trains (maps, announcements, models, etc.), but also gets bored & is looking for other hobbies that are as satisfying. Pls send ideas/retweet.
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What a lovely thread about the Sikh diaspora in Australia
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🧵My thread on Woolgoolga/Wiigulga. 1/ So much that we think we know about Australia just doesn't stick when local history is this rich, this subversive, where 19th century Sikh migrant communities live and work surrounded by the town's namesake Wiigul, Black Apple Tree.
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Couldn't be prouder of my very first PhD student, who passed his viva yesterday. Can't wait to see what you get up to next, Tom @TomWilk0
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Dr Tom Wilkinson
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Passed my Ph.D. viva-voce yesterday! Tremendous thanks to @willgupshup and Samita Sen for the very insightful and rigorous discussion and @TaylorCSherman for being such a fantastic supervisor and mentor over the last four years! #phdvoice #phdlife #phd #grateful
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When will the authorities stop encouraging, those who assault cows? #mootoo
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@doctorpoco RK Narayan's Waiting for the Mahatma (1955) - a gentle exporation of the ambivalences and contradictions of the anticolonial movement, full of tender humour too.
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It is a real delight to see students like @arvmoh97 engaging with the work. Praise is always welcome, but if a new generation takes up the book, building upon the arguments and, yes, even critiquing them a bit too, then I'll feel I've achieved something.
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One of the most important roles he had as PM was to sponsor bright, enthusiastic people in pursuing their own projects. As a patron of others, he cut ribbons, cleared obstacles and supported others' efforts. He did not design and direct every programme.
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Found so many truths in this short piece - ordered Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh straight away!
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Indulekha Aravind
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"The family remains the primary site of every woman’s independence struggle. India may have gained freedom from her colonizers, but women are yet to gain independence from family control and its associated caregiving roles", writes @BShrayana
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Taylor C. Sherman
2 years
@rhymingrythm With no disrespect to all those Apple fans, Macs have never been in my budget. I always buy try to get the best pc for the least money. Recently bought an Acer Swift, and it's doing the job very well. Good luck with the dissertation!
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@TaylorCSherman
Taylor C. Sherman
2 years
Looking for a new interpretation of Nehru's India in 11 minutes? I lay out my arguments starting at 17:05 on this podcast. Many thanks to @karthiknach and @Lekhpodcast for inviting me for a chat.
@Lekhpodcast
Lekh
2 years
Final podcast of 2022 live! In this episode, I speak to @TaylorCSherman on her recent @PrincetonUPress book Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths, which revisits and reassesses the role Jawaharlal Nehru played in shaping India in those early years.
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2 years
2. We must move beyond the idea that India had a 'founding moment' lasting from 1947 to either the inauguration of the Constitution or to the first Plan. The drive to transform the country gathered pace from 1952, with government programmes reinvented several times over.
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@TaylorCSherman
Taylor C. Sherman
11 months
Delighted to see the release of this book from my lovely former colleague, Oscar Webber. Contains insights into how natural disasters expose social & racial hierarchies - important for understanding the British Empire, but also relevant to today's environmental crises.
@Adom_PH
Adom P H
1 year
Big congratulations to friend & colleague Oscar Webber on the release of his great new book! Looking forward to reading it! 👈🏽here’s Oscar in conversation about it
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@TaylorCSherman
Taylor C. Sherman
2 years
Important argument about recent digital trends in Partition studies: "commemorative projects surrounding Partition have self-consciously depoliticized, dehistorized, and globalized public memory of the events, with further attendant dangers of recreating nationalist narratives"
@pippavirdee
Pritpal Virdee
2 years
Happy to share my new article, which you can download (1st 50 are free). Thank you @ElizabethTingle @SueZelenyBishop for reading those early drafts & @BangashYK for your support. Thank you Janneken for your hardwork at @oralhistreview Histories & Memories
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@TaylorCSherman
Taylor C. Sherman
2 years
@sravanthid There are government records in the Ministry of States files at the National Archives of India that cover the conflict (more detail after 1948). The Sundarayya Vignana Kendram has published materials from the Communists. I had very little luck at the Telangana State Archives.
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@TaylorCSherman
Taylor C. Sherman
2 years
Learned a lot from this chat about the 1972 Shimla Agreement between India and Pakistan. @SushantSin not only busts some popular myths about the agreement, but explains the origins of those myths.
@SushantSin
Sushant Singh
2 years
Last week, I spoke to @NilanjanUdwin @newsclickin on 50 years of Simla Agreement, about the myths that have been perpetuated on the talks that brought India and Pakistan an 'imperfect peace' which was definitely better than no peace at all. [In Hindustani]
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@TaylorCSherman
Taylor C. Sherman
1 year
@Khan2005Sarah @grumpeoldman There are scattered mentions of the Swatantra Party in my book, but the real expert is @Aditya_Balasub - his book will be published by @PrincetonUPress next month. Read the first chapter free by clicking 'look inside'.
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@TaylorCSherman
Taylor C. Sherman
2 years
Lecturer in South Asian Art History - before 1700
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@TaylorCSherman
Taylor C. Sherman
2 years
Historians can look for the person who really ran the project when Nehru was not there. Hint: they will be in the photo next to him laying the foundation stone!
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@TaylorCSherman
Taylor C. Sherman
2 years
@MenryWY If you just want them to get an idea more than the detail, use a podcast/video instead of the book. Authors often explain seminal arguments beautifully in interviews. Assigning these also supports neurodivergent students & gives everyone a chance to absorb more without reading.
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Taylor C. Sherman
2 years
@moubanerjee28 I'd start by getting the student to let go of the idea that there are fixed stages of development that every society inevitably progresses through. To grasp this, I'd recommend The Dawn of Everything by @davidwengrow and @davidgraeber
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@TaylorCSherman
Taylor C. Sherman
2 years
Really enjoy these long-form podcasts where we learn about the scholar and the book. For those in a rush, though, (or looking to assign this to students), Nikhil Menon explains his important arguments about India's *democratic* planning in about 8 minutes starting at 3:51:45.
@amitvarma
Amit Varma
2 years
Society can't be designed in a top-down way. That's why central planning was such a disaster. Nikhil Menon joins me in episode 306 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the flawed genius PC Mahalanobis & the cautionary tale of our planning commission:
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@TaylorCSherman
Taylor C. Sherman
2 years
Check out this fascinating piece on Urmila Eulie Chowdhury, who lived in Chandigarh for years and designed many buildings there. She was one of a small group of Indian architects who, arguably, had a greater influence on architecture in the city than Le Corbusier.
@anuradhakumar01
anuradha kumar
2 years
so thrilled to have this piece up on the wonderful, trailblazing architect, Urmila Eulie Chowdhury, & to work with the wonderful team at @FiftyTwoDotIn - @supriyan @vikramshah1991 @medhavenkat @amalshiyas
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@TaylorCSherman
Taylor C. Sherman
9 months
@SaibBilaval I once had a run of 41 out of 44 file received - miracles do happen, just not today.
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Taylor C. Sherman
2 years
1) Great Men are a product of people, processes and institutions. These are often hidden in ways that help elevate and isolate the individual figure.
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