Mou Banerjee
@moubanerjee28
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PhD @Harvard . Opinions are personal. "The Disinherited" forthcoming @Harvard_Press in January 2025. Retweets are not endorsements.
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Thanks to the wonderful
@edanderson101
, my first article on Muslim-Christian apologetics in rural Bengal is now published from
@BASAS_SAS
The first article, by Mou Banerjee, from my guest-edited South Asian Studies special issue is up! Check it out here:
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I am delighted to announce that I received the Dorothy and Hsin-Nung Yao Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the History Department, UW-Madison.
It came as a complete surprise, but any and all credit goes to the excellent and empathetic mentoring I have received!
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I just got the news that I received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the APIDA Student Center at UW-Madison, for 2021-22. What a wonderful way to end the semester.
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Adoration of the Christ Child, Deccani School, Golconda Court, circa. 1630. Freer Gallery of Art.
Merry Christmas!!
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There's been many recent TV shows on the birth of Bangladesh on Pakistani television. The rewriting of history, the nostalgia, is really hard to watch knowing that there was a genocide in East Pakistan. Khel Khel Mein, Jo Bichchar Gaye, Khwaab Toot Jaate Hain - cases in point.
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What a day. Proofs of my book are here. And I received UW-Madison's Undergraduate Mentorship Award in recognition for my work on the Nonviolence Project!
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I will be joining the History Department at
@UWMadison
this Fall. I'm excited and nervous and looking forward to this new adventure.
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Bought at a curio shop in Darjeeling. Can anyone help me by deciphering what's inscribed on the ring?
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What are the new articles or books (published in the last 10 years) that would be essential reading for a graduate proseminar on the historiography of South Asia? Hivemind, suggestions please?!
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The mid-term submissions are coming in, and I did not know that there were these many ways to misspell my name. It's truly creative. There's Meow and Mao and Moo Bannerji, Bannaji, Bonnerjee, etc.
I couldn't find myself in an archive with these many variations.
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I want to thank the staff at the Asian and African Studies Reading Room at the
@britishlibrary
for being wonderful. The cyberattack has meant untold difficulties, but they have kept the research running and have been incredibly kind and helpful to me the past three weeks. Bravo!!
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I compiled this reading list for one of my students who wanted to read about South Asia. As expected, far too heavy on India, but I hope to supplement and make this better as I go on and learn more!
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Student evaluations usually tend to make me cry but I am a lifelong fan of whoever wrote this: "You are a QUEEN who needs to be PAID MORE (!!!)"
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With the extraordinary
@mjsharafi
who was honored tonight with the Slesinger Award for Excellencein Mentorship!
@darshana_mini
,
@p_mukherj
and I are absolutely overjoyed!!
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#Pandemic
sorrows. I am finding it incredibly difficult to be away from my family and my research archives. This is not a happy healthy way to live, and I am exhausted and lonely and sad.
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In thirty years, I shall be a white-haired professor faced with an innocent baby graduate student who wants to write her dissertation on 2020, and I will be like, sweet summer child, that's too long a time period. Why don't you focus on the time between March 26 and July 1?
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My essay on Syed Mujtaba Ali was published in Anandabazar today. Semanti Ghosh's magical translation elevates my work immensely and I am so very grateful to her.
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Warmest congratulations to my wonderful colleague
@mjsharafi
on receiving the 2021 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award!
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My essay on the hauntings of history in Satyajit Ray's ghost stories in Anandabazar Patrika today. The translation of the piece was done by the brilliant Shubhabrata Banerjee who beautifully rendered the piece in Bangla.
My deepest thanks to Semanti Ghosh for this!!
Wonderful Sunday editorial on the omnipresence of the historical "ghost" in the present of Ray's fictions from
@moubanerjee28
.
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Two history students (MA/PhD) from India for the 18-month Cosmos Malabaricus MA scholarship at Leiden University. Deadline 10 December 2023. For details see:
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My essay, part of a fantastic roundtable, edited by the brilliant
@MilindaBanerje2
, is now published in
@PolTheoNetwork
:
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Just watched
#ThreeOfUs
on Netflix and sobbed through most of it. Shefali Shah and Jaideep Ahlawat are sublime. The scene though - this return to music, to the arts, after losing it for a long time ... so utterly poignant. And is that
@tmkrishna
singing?!! Beautiful!
been uncontrollably crying my eyes out for the past 10 minutes after watching this scene. there's something so incredibly poignant about older generations reconnecting with the arts after a long time.
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Where was everyone when SLB ruined Devdas and made a complete mockery of Bengalis and Bangla? ISHHH.
Just watched Heeramandi. Found everything but heermandi in it.
I mean either you don’t set your story in 1940’s Lahore, or if you do- you don’t set it in Agra’s landscape, Delhi’s Urdu, Lakhnavi dresses and 1840’s vibe. My not-so-sorry Lahori self can’t really let it go.
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I am speaking on my research into the connections between pedagogy, law and missionary activity in colonial Calcutta at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on 10th October. Thanks so much to Prof. Nilanjana Paul for inviting me!
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I did a wonderful interview with
@TheSwaddle
! Here's a preview on some of the things we discussed - including my forthcoming biography of Raja Rammohan Roy from
@juggernautbooks
!
How did Rammohun Roy campaign for the ban against sati in 1829? Dr. Mou Banerjee, historian, explains.
@moubanerjee28
#TheSwaddleInterviews
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Someone gave me a recommendation letter which said, in the middle of an A4 page, "I know Mou Banerjee. She was a fairly good student and has good character." That's it. That was the recommendation letter. Fairly good student after, you know, topping both my B.A. and M.A. exams.
Colleagues: *please* figure out how to write letters of reference. You are doing your students a huge disservice by writing recos letters that consist of two paras, or even a page (oh and don't misgender them ffs).
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Come and work with me and my fantastic colleagues at UW-Madison's History Department!
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#RanajitGuha
was, indisputably, the historian who changed the way we practice the discipline of history, especially when it comes to the history of those who are dispossessed and marginalized.
Ranajit Guha, a great historian is no more. Rest in peace great master.
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My essay on planter violence against Christian converts who were largely Dalit, in Barisal in the nineteenth century, in today's
@dailystarnews
:
It spread quickly in Bakarganj (present day Barishal), Murshidabad, Pabna, Khulna and Narail.
Mou Banerjee writes
#Opinion
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This is a brilliant book. My undergrads read the chapter on inventing poverty in colonial India. Davis talks about British extractive methods that led to the famine deaths of 19 million Indians between 1860-1900. That is equivalent to the entire population of Britain at the time.
Mike Davis’ Late Victorian Holocausts shifted my perspective on how many events we deem to be inevitable tragedies are actually embedded in the processes of profit accumulation. If you could even only read the introduction, it will blow your mind.
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Reader, I cried. I have not seen my family in 2 years. I haven't been able to go to any research site for fear that I would not be allowed back in the US. This is amazing news.
BREAKING: Biden administration to ease travel restrictions for fully vaccinated visitors to the U.S. starting in early November.
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Brilliant essay by Prof. Projitbihari Mukherji on epidemics, society and collective memory, told through ghost stories:
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Happening this Friday at 12.00 noon CST. The Indian time is at 11.30 PM at night. Please come!
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We, from the global south grew up reading the classics of English literature, and these words are a part of our every day vocabulary. We use them because we know them, and because we learnt our English seeing them used in canonical prose. Damned if we do and damned if we don't!
@HistoryEJ
No one uses it in spoken English. It's one of those words like "burgeoning" that people only use when they're writing and want to sound clever.
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Speaking on my forthcoming book at
@AhdUniv
tomorrow, 27th March. Please attend!
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | 5:30 PM IST, 7.00 AM CST | Online via Zoom.
Register Now:
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Four years at Madison. This is the first few weeks I was here, because my furniture arrived a month after me.
@mjsharafi
and
@jeanluc_t
kindly lent me their camping mattress and duvet and pillows. How time flies.
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The missionaries and the evolution of the Bengali language | The Daily Star - my essay on the occasion of Bhasha-Dibas
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I wrote on
#RanajitGuha
last year. His work will continue to be one of the greatest influences on mine.
"Role of Raja Ram Mohan Roy and historian Ranajit Guha in our society - Anandabazar"
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Teaching the Bengal Famine today:
আশ্চর্য ভাতের গন্ধ
- বীরেন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
আশ্চর্য ভাতের গন্ধ রাত্রির আকাশে
কারা যেন আজও ভাত রাঁধে
ভাত বাড়ে, ভাত খায় ।
আর, আমরা সারা রাত জেগে থাকি
আশ্চর্য ভাতের গন্ধে
প্রার্থনায়, সারা রাত।
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My research on Munshi Meherullah was published in the Daily Star of Bangladesh today. This particular essay and the chapter on which it is based in my forthcoming book is dedicated to Bashirul Haque and Firdous Azim:
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Friends, what are the recent works on South Asia, that have grappled with the gendered aspects of hunger?
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I love that
@britishmuseum
- filled with looted artifacts extracted from indigenous peoples subjected to centuries of colonial enslavement, is going to charge non-UK visitors. Very on brand. Really.
🟦 v interesting news tidbits in today’s Sunday Times piece on museum admission charges:
➡️Chanel at
@V_and_A
DOUBLED their membership numbers
➡️
@derbymuseums
is running annual £500k deficits
➡️Mark Jones — interim
@britishmuseum
Director — wants non-UK visitors charged entry
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I will be speaking about The Nonviolence Project (link in bio) that I've been steering, in this year's Lecture Series of the
@ACSAMadison
at UW-Madison!
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Rest in peace Toni Morrison.
“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else."
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The Nonviolence Project is now live!! We're grateful to
@rdk1212
and the Board of Visitors, to the
@UWHistoryDept
,
@UWHistoryCareer
and to the
@ACSAMadison
for making this project possible. Brilliant
@KacieLucchini
provided advice. I love my students!
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Amartya Sen praises Tariq Omar Ali's fantastic book on the political economy of jute in South Asia!
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Ranajit Guha, India’s oldest living historian, starts his 100th year with a dazzling legacy via
@scroll_in
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I just got the senior auditor requests for my lecture course on South Asia, and one of them has the sweetest reason - "My new daughter-in-law is from India."
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We now have
@KMantena
's fantastic talk on Gandhi and Nonviolence uploaded to Youtube. My thanks to
@ACSAMadison
for all their hard work in making this happen!
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Todd Michelson-Ambelang and I received the Library Collections Enhancement Initiative Grant that we had applied for - to acquire British Foreign Office Files for Afghanistan and Burma!
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Student email beginning, "Good evening Mrs. Banerjee!"
NO NO NOPE. It took me 7 years of panicking quietly to get the doctorate. And there are no Mrs. Banerjees - my mother is Dr. Chattopadhyay, and my grandmother was Ms. Bandopadhyay, both fiercely keeping their maiden surnames.
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One of the best experiences of teaching my class on nonviolence is seeing students come in with stars in their eyes about Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. and then fall in love in real time with Ambedkar and Malcolm X.
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My colleagues and friends, UW-Madison historians Sarah Thal and Louise Young’s books are included in the 5 best books on Japanese history.
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Hello hivemind! I have assigned an Op-Ed of about 800 words, for my undergraduate students taking the Modern South Asia: 1947-to the Present course. What would be some of the best short Op-Eds you have read recently on South Asian affairs?! Please help!
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I will be speaking at the Anthropology Forum at BRAC University on 12th October, 2023 at 9.00 AM CST (8.00 pm BD time). Here's the registration form via which the Zoom link will be shared and is also available via the QR code in the poster:
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My essay on Indo-Afghan relations has been published by the Fletcher Security Review:
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The kids are amazing, and the only reason why this semester was bearable. I cried when they did this. This new generation - they fill my heart with hope for a better world!
Prof. Mou Banerjee was surprised Tuesday when students from History 200 - Gandhi, King, Mandela: Non-Violence in the World - performed a coordinated thank you to her over Zoom. Thank you so much to our students and instructors who persevered this semester!
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Courtesy
@mjsharafi
- Check out the secret history of South Asian + Black solidarity, in 20 pictures
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Books I have been reading after finishing my book. And other brilliant book recommendations from colleagues at UW-Madison.
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Writing and finishing my book has been difficult, to say the least. My editor
@emsilk10
has been the absolute best in shepherding this book to conclusion. She is rigorous, brilliant and compassionate - and I couldn't have hoped for a better editor.
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Vomit inducing. Orientalism at it's worst, but from Indians who still can't get over the sado-masochist nostalgia of empire.
The Maharani of Manhattan | Luxury | India via
@YouTube
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My interview with Prof. Anustup Basu on his timely and urgent book "Hindutva 2.0" is now published in the journal of Political Theology. Many thanks to
@MilindaBanerje2
for the opportunity!
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My talk on "Doing Nonviolence" which I gave
@ACSAMadison
on December 1, 2022, is now online:
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How to smell a Mughal and Rajput miniature painting, curated by my best friend and one of the most brilliant scholars of early-modern South Asia,
@NicInTheGarden
with the amazing
@Litrahb
:
via
@IndianExpress
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Exactly a year today that I arrived in Madison and
@mjsharafi
was at the bus stop at State Street for me, waiting to bring me to my apartment. New job, new city, new life. What a year it has been.
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Please join us on April 8th
@ACSAMadison
and
@UWHistoryDept
to hear
@KMantena
give a lecture on Gandhi's Critique of Violence.
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Many thanks to everyone who helped me with references for my student regarding links between Africa and South Asia historically. Here are the collated suggestions, unedited and unformatted, but collected in one place!
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Fantastic talk by
@suchitrav
. One of my inspirations for engaging ethically with a mutilated world. Her passion and commitment has made
@project_polis
truly transformative.
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I am speaking at British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference 2022. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event!
#TrialSampleTwitter
- via
#Whova
event app
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Brilliant article by my friend Todd Michelson-Ambelang on the ethics of collection and classification of South Asian materials.
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Life has such a strange and wonderful way of coming full circle. I received news of being accepted to
@Harvard_History
department on Saraswati Puja day of 2011. Ten years later, this happens on Saraswati Puja.
Equally delighted to be working with you on this wonderful book,
@moubanerjee28
! I can't wait to get started.
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Absolutely delighted that this has happened and looking forward to working with the AMAZING
@emsilk10
!
Also, I wouldn't have made it so far without
@_sen_sharmila
who is an exemplar of women mentoring women in academia - thank you!
Delighted to announce
@Harvard_Press
’s
@emsilk10
has signed
@moubanerjee28
’s book on Christian conversion in colonial South Asia and how it continues to shape contemporary politics.
A pleasure to see two such intelligent women - author & editor - working together.
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I spoke to
@NPR
's
@julianahyekim
on the passing of Queen Elizabeth.
Not everyone mourns the queen. For many, she can't be separated from colonial rule
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I was 27 when I began at Harvard, and older than all my cohort. And had a failed attempt at PhD back in India that I had started at 21, where every horror story one hears about academia happened to me. The Harvard year attempt was my last chance to do something with my life.
Fellow PhD students: how old were you when you started your program? I just turned 26, & I've already been told a handful of times by others that I'm "very old" for a First Year & I definitely think I'm the oldest in my cohort!
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Durga Puja away from the metropolitan center. The Kanak Durga worship at Jaypore, near my rural hometown.
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The strangest things one finds while doing research. Bimala Prasad Chattopadhyay was my maternal grandfather, the government pleader at the Purulia High Court, and founder of the still flourishing local newspaper Purulia Darpan.
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The warmest, most engaged and critically nuanced audience at UChicago. I had such a wonderful time presenting my research and so many new things to think about! My sincerest thanks to
@RochonaMajumdar
for the invitation and for her fantastic questions and her kindness and care!
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I am on the ballot for the Nominating Committee for the AHA elections this year. Please support me.
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Purulia, my hometown, holds the current national record of India's highest temperature, 51.1 °C (124.0 °F). It's been unbearably hot - today it's 42 °C at 10.00 A.M.
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“Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.”
“Realism can break a writer's heart.”
―
#SalmanRushdie
, "Shame"
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Come and take my class on the History of Modern South Asia! Learn about India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, after 1947, and up to the present day!
@uwsoasia
,
@UWMadison
,
@uw_diversity
,
@UWMadisonLS
!!
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I wonder if I could do an
#ACSA
Madison roundtable on Bengal as a historical field and its future. Is it truly exhausted? What are the new possibilities if any? Would people be interested?
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Courtesy my dear friend
@NicInTheGarden
. As Nico says, note the language throughout - a civilized deployment of "transfer of power", which subsumes under it a brutal history of colonization and genocidal famine.
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Got vaccinated today - Johnson and Johnson. So far side effects are complete exhaustion, some soreness at injection site and a very low grade fever, for which Tylenol is more than enough.
I am so happy. Yet, the horror of last year and lost loved ones will haunt me forever.
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Friends, I will be speaking at Cambridge U's Indian Religions Research Seminars on Monday, the 25 January. My talk is from 2.15–4.15 pm (GMT).
Title: Contestations Over the Cow in Nineteenth-Century Bengal.
If you want to join, send me a message and I will share the Zoom link!
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Best news ever!! Congratulations
@mjsharafi
, best mentor and friend and colleague I've ever had!
Congratulations to
@mjsharafi
, who was named president-elect of the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) on Oct. 28. Sharafi will be president-elect of the ASLH in 2023-25 and will be president in 2025-27.
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If as a recommendation writer, you can only type one sentence in an A4 size paper, saying "I know her, she seems of decent moral character and is in the top 25% of students I have taught over 30 years" please spare that poor student and take your maliciousness elsewhere.
Dear 'wide-eyed brown kids'. I'll be posting a short thread later about applications, research proposals, and recommendation letters, as a soft antidote to an appalling attack on young people passing as truth-telling about 'coolie labour' (get a grip) in academia.
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I am speaking at the British Library on my book project, "The Disinherited: Christianity and Conversion in Calcutta"
on Mon 29 Mar 2021, with
@valardoeharis
and
@itihaashtag
. Hope to see some of you there!
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This game is amazing - if you're teaching a class on early modern South Asia, your students will love it!!
Shipping now! Card titles below will be familiar to
@UnamPillai
and
@AKanisetti
.
@DalrympleWill
will approve of the Koh-i-Noor's inclusion. Grateful always to
@KapadiaAparna
, Dick Eaton,
@mjsharafi
, and
@gmtgames
! With
@MathieuTheGrey
,
@Chaosgoat
,
@joe_dewhurst
and so many more.
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Absolutely brilliant article on Calcutta's urbanization and the changing forms of the Bengali ghost story by our very own
@ujaanghosh
!
📢Self Promotion: My new article is out. It asks what Ghost Stories and Hauntings can tell us about urban history. I explore How spectres of all kinds can contribute to our historical reconstruction of a city's past. Out in Journal of South Asian Studies.
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