This is such a beautiful two-parter. The eminent Mughal historian Harbans Mukhia on his ancestral village in West Panjab, Pakistan in *Peshawar Review*

Our latest Four Books post highlights scholarship that reframes how we think about South Asian religions—Sikh history, caste, Hindu–Muslim relations, and Islamic pasts and futures. Read here → buff.ly/ZA0YXpU What recent work has reshaped your understanding of the region?

I'm very pleased to share this project I've been a part of about rare historical photographs of the Pakistan movement and the 1947 partition of South Asia. The images were taken by Lahore-based photographer Muhammad Bakhsh Bhatti and generously made available by his grandson, Shahzeb Bhatti. 1/3

Katyayani Dalmia on caste and colorism in India: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

Trump saying people of color are naturally suited to farm labor sure sounds a lot like the slaveholders that said slaves were naturally inclined to servitude

The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

A Palestinian girl tells her father, “It’s okay,” urging him to risk their lives for food as Israel restricts aid to Gaza and shoots at those trying to reach it.

Children in Gaza have begun to die of severe malnutrition in increasing numbers as Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza. Infants are the most severely affected, as hunger devours their bodies until they reach "a point of no return." mondoweiss.net/2025/07/when...

An increasing number of infants suffering from malnutrition have been admitted to Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza City.

Most of the ideas mentioned in this article—higher minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges, higher taxes on the rich—are not only popular now but were realities in the past, including in NYC, during the booming postwar years, when America was “great.”/1 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

Today is the day the NEH has been fully dismantled in all but name.

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a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

Hope you’ll join @dillivali.bsky.social, Steven Lindquist, and Anna Seastrand and I at the New Books in Hindu Studies roundtable at #AARSBL24 on Sunday!

I’m getting included in a lot of Buddhist circles, which is not always the case but I’m very excited. Here is a photograph from Saranpur (modern day Bihar) of an itinerant Buddhist monk from a colonial archive of photographs located at the British Library.