Morning all. This week I'm giving a couple of talks about Glorious Failure: - Friday 9th, 6pm, India International Centre, Delhi iicdelhi.in/programmes/f... - Saturday 10th, 6pm, Sarmaya Arts Foundation, Mumbai urbanaut.app/spot/sarmaya... Both free and open to all. Do come!

I did the #Page99 test with Glorious Failure. Results here page99test.blogspot.com/2025/10/robe...

Looking forward to this! Now I just need to prepare my paper 🫣

I wrote a review of Marine Bellégo's impressive book on the history of the botanical gardens of Calcutta. It should introduce the book to non-French speakers too. Open access journals.openedition.org/caliban/14377

An interview about Glorious Failure for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Thanks to Mark Klobas for his thoughtful questions. Hopefully I get some of the book's key points across in the course of the hour newbooksnetwork.com/glorious-fai... @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

Delighted to announce that I've just joined @sciencespo-grenoble.fr as Associate Professor (MCF) in History. This year's teaching: - Colonialism in Perspective - Indigenous Peoples and Decolonisation - The Postcolonial Anglophone World - History of Modern India - The Climate Crisis: Global Responses

Glorious Failure is out now! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.hurstpublishers.com/book/gloriou... 'a pacy, perceptive history' — @pratinavanil.bsky.social 'a compelling and accessible read' — @davidveevers.bsky.social 'a dazzling triumph’ — @drshashitharoor.bsky.social Other comments welcome!

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who launched the first French East India Company in 1664. I happen to be in his hometown, Reims, today. #GloriousFailure is published on Thursday! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

En route for the @saesfrance.org congress in Toulouse. Train 3/3, a fitting bit of #slowtravel before Friday’s panel on environmental transition

Glorious Failure reviewed by @pratinavanil.bsky.social for the Literary Review. Publication date is June 26th :) @hurstpublishers.bsky.social literaryreview.co.uk/from-paris-t...

Final proofs of #GloriousFailure just checked. Publication is in 5 weeks... Thanks to @drshashitharoor.bsky.social and @davidveevers.bsky.social (among others) for the endorsements!

Just noticed that an old article of mine on religious and customary law in colonial Punjab is now freely available on Jstor. It was the first article I ever had published. Dig in! www.jstor.org/stable/24494... @jstor.bsky.social

Two weeks without teaching now but a lot of reading to do for new project 🤓📚 @amitav.bsky.social

It’s out!

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Coming soon, just what exactly did the French get up to in eighteenth century India? Short answer: no good. #GloriousFailure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India hurstpublishers.com/book/gloriou... @hurstpublishers.bsky.social