Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.

Pics from the Macau Litfest a couple weeks ago: My interview with Amitav Ghosh

Why was the East India Company so concerned about knowledge and scholarship? @drjehrlich.bsky.social joins Past Imperfect to explain, painting a historical canvas which stretches from Warren Hastings to the first rumblings for mass education in the early 19th century: scroll.in/article/1091...

My interview with @dinyarpatel.bsky.social for the Past Imperfect podcast is now up: www.spjimr.org/podcast/past...

Macau/HK friends: come see @amitav.bsky.social this weekend at the Macau Literary Festival, in a talk moderated by me.

If you missed Ann Blair’s @ransomcenter.bsky.social Pforzheimer Lecture last night, you can check it out on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI... I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.

Happy to see The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge on the Mittal Institute's winter reading list: mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/2025/12/wint...

Join us in Macau for this global history conference: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

My afterword for a special journal issue on Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I review Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India by Nicholas Hoover Wilson for JAS @asianstudies.org doi.org/10.1215/0021...

Now online: A review symposium on The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (@CambridgeUP) @HEIjournal. Featuring essays by Jessica Patterson, Nandini Chatterjee, Simon Mills, Jessica Ratcliff, and Sujit Sivasundaram. Links to follow... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SNWVF...

Out soon: this collected volume @historytoday.com, featuring my essay on EIC nabobs and the Enlightenment www.historytoday.com/british-empi...

8/8 This issue ends with a review, second, by @sandipan1992.bsky.social (Presidency University, Kolkata) of "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2023) by @drjehrlich.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Shot in the dark: Does anyone have a copy of Barun De's 1961 Oxford dissertation, "Henry Dundas and the Government of India"? (Impossible to find online, with EThOS still down)

My latest article on the conflicting pressures faced by Muslim scholars in reformist circles of the 18th century: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...

An incisive review of The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge (@universitypress.cambridge.org) in @historians.org academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Exciting job: assistant prof in global history of knowledge @lunduniversity lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Great new article by Robert Travers: "Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings" doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Just received from @cambridgeup.bsky.social this voucher for 20% off the paperback of my book -- please use it!

1/ Last year, Book History printed an article of mine riddled with 30+ mistakes. The editors have now issued an errata slip acknowledging most of these: muse.jhu.edu/article/959460

1/9 A thread on our recent special issue (10.2), "New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones [1746-1794]", guested edited by @drjehrlich.bsky.social (Macau) & Ian Stewart (@ucl.ac.uk) who underscore its importance & themes in their introduction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

4/9 @drjehrlich.bsky.social (Macau) contributes with a piece on "William Jones and the Politics of Knowledge" which, among other things, briefly traces the willingness of Jones to adapt his scholarship to various political programmes across his career www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Rather, the view from Macau prompts a reassessment of the prospects for British imperial history; it raises different questions from those currently dominant in the field." Read more from @drjehrlich.bsky.social in the third piece in our series. www.nacbs.org/post/the-pro...

A short piece I wrote for @thenacbs.bsky.social on teaching and studying British imperial history in Macau: www.nacbs.org/post/the-pro...

Now out in a much more affordable paperback: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Just out: an interview I gave about my book, The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge, for the Global Corporations / Law Channel podcast newbooksnetwork.com/the-east-ind...

Just out: special issue @global-ih.bsky.social, 'New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones', edited by Ian Stewart and me, with essays by @rkkinra.bsky.social, @asheeshksi.bsky.social, Jessica Patterson, and Kapil Raj (and us) www.tandfonline.com/toc/rgih20/1...

See you in Chennai on 3 Feb!

Robert Travers reviews 'The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge', by Joshua Ehrlich academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @cambridgeup.bsky.social

It was our AGM last week - and it marked @petermandler.bsky.social's last AGM as Chair! We want to thank Peter for 23 years of outstanding, committed service to the journal, including as an Editor and as a Chair💙 📸Pictured here with one of our current Editors, @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social 🗃️

Delhi-wallahs, come hear me talk about the EIC and the Politics of Knowledge (now out in India) at JNU on the 27th www.jnu.ac.in/node/159897207

Hi Joshua, many thanks for this! We are seeking submissions for Volume I until January 15th at 23:59 IST. We accept articles between 2,000 and 10,000 words from all countries and disciplines.

Excited to see this out! A new study of the EIC and science by Jessica Ratcliff: bit.ly/40jALya

NB colleagues in India, China, elsewhere

Interesting selection of readings on law, history, and theory, curated by the editors of the new Trinity Journal of Legal and Historical Critique @tcddublin.bsky.social trinitylhc.org/recommended-...

To inaugurate my bluesky feed: I heartily recommend (re-)reading this classic by Katherine Prior www.academia.edu/103448687/Ba...