The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Very excited that the Asian Legal History Association will be formally launched at 2 events in March 2026--at Chinese University of Hong Kong (March 17-18, 2026) + Oxford (March 23)! Here's the Call for Papers for "Legal History in Asia and Beyond" (due Oct31): www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

Boats in a Storm gets an India edition with Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social! Releasing on 18 August.

How a small island nation that produced virtually none of the emissions changing Earth's climate is struggling to move its people and villages uphill amidst USAID and other foreign assistance cutbacks: wapo.st/3JsEao4 [gift link]

"Tamil asylum denial was not only a matter of domestic politics, but one that crucially entailed international and transnational dimensions." Niro Kandasamy on the complex history and politics of asylum denial. www.historyworkshop....

My review of Vineeta Sinha's Temple Tracks: Labor, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia. Absolutely brilliant on history & memory, ruination & revival, the role of labor, gender, kinship & religion, identities that travel, morph & unsettle across oceans. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is going to be a fantastic book.

Taking up the sorry task of trying to AI-proof the syllabus for my research seminar. Please share tips, advice, examples.

Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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A generous review of Boats in a Storm for readers of Simplified Chinese: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/HuYp6TK6wG...

Our Special 20th Anniversary Issue ends with a Postscript written by Kalyani Ramnath, Editor-in-Chief of SLR in 2007. Ramnath reflects on SLR’s journey, particularly the initial years, placing the question of socio-legal in an institutional context. repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol20/is...

I’m thrilled to finally share my article on citizenship, caste, and exit control at the time of the India-Pakistan partition out now on first view in Modern Asian Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians

A shoutout for Elizabeth Lhost's wonderful essay on the contributions and challenges of socio-legal studies x legal history @slr-nlsiu.bsky.social @lawandhistrev.bsky.social - #History #AcademicSky repository.nls.ac.in/cgi/viewcont...

Today is World Refugee Day. ✊🗃 From the archive, a podcast episode by Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social featuring Peter Gatrell, Pual Dudman @paulvdudman.bsky.social, Heather Faulkner and Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social, on creating Refugee Archives. www.historyworkshop.... #WorldRefugeeDay

This looks fantastic, with a great line-up of scholars including legal historians Elizabeth Lhost and Kalyani Ramnath (who was there in the early days)! Also includes Anup Surendranath & Maitreyi Misra on death penalty (India) and Maryam Khan on socio-legal studies in Pakistan. Congratulations, all!

SLR's Special 20th Anniversary Issue is out now! Volume 20(2) reflects on two decades of socio-legal inquiry from India, South Asia, and beyond—through legal history, anthropology, mitigation practice, comparative method & institutional memory. Read here: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/

@slr-nlsiu.bsky.social 20th #anniversary: I was delighted to write a reflective essay on early years of SLR at #NLSIU and interdisciplinary legal research and publishing in #India repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol20/is...

@slr-nlsiu.bsky.social 20th #anniversary: I was delighted to write a reflective essay on early years of SLR at #NLSIU and interdisciplinary legal research and publishing in #India Of interest to @lawandsociety.bsky.social @lawandhistrev.bsky.social @abfresearch.bsky.social @slsauk.bsky.social

@slr-nlsiu.bsky.social launched their 20th anniversary issue yesterday, featuring superstars Elizabeth Lhost, Maryam Khan, Anup Surendranath and Maitreyi Misra, and Sara Dezalay. The 20th anniversary issue also includes an essay by Deepa Das Acevedo and Jahnavi Chamarthi. Watch recording here -

Congratulations and celebrations to @slr-nlsiu.bsky.social and editors and authors past and present. Please sign up below for the launch of the 20th anniversary issue 18 June at 3 PM with the stellar line up of authors!

CFP: Radical History Review has a new special issue, edited by Evan Taparata, Jecca Namakkal, Kalyani Ramnath, and Amy Chazkel. It’s titled “mobility regimes” and is looking to put migrationists of many stripes in conversation – here’s the CFP: www.radicalhistoryreview.org/mobility-reg...

Please see this @radhistreview.bsky.social call for proposals on Mobility Regimes | Edited by Amy Chazkel, Jecca Namakkal, Evan Taparata, and myself | Deadline June 15, 2025.

It was a pleasure to review Reshad Duraghee's The Indentured Archipelago for the American Historical Review - academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

🎙️📚"To say what the Gulf was according to the migrants, I did not want to read them as victims. I wanted to look at the kind of literature they wrote, the kind of photographs they produced or the films they made." A conversation with Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil:

Raise Your Voice (2022) by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya at the Museum of the City of New York.

Working on a first book that engages legal history, broadly defined? Apply to the ASLH's Wallace Johnson First Book Program! Deadline: June 27, 2025. aslh.net/award/wallac...

Another world is possible.

It has a cover! I am so excited to have The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean coming out September 2025 with @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

Or read about the 1940s to 1960s in S Asia.

Honored and grateful that the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy book prize 2025 has been awarded to “Hurt sentiments”. A full list of all books awarded is in the link below. Many thanks to the members of the jury for this award, and to reader and reviewers for their reception of the book. @harvardpress

On World Radio Day, read this review of Isabel Alonso's phenomenal Radio for the Millions - www.himalmag.com/politics/rad...

Another world is possible.

Excellent critique by @jannenijman.bsky.social of ca. 2025 "Let's Buy #Greenland" exhortations, plus deep contextualization through account of #PredatoryCapitalism which put Manhattan into Dutch empire ca. 1625 @ejiltalk.bsky.social

From the brilliant Harini Kumar on Chennai Shaheen Bagh: "Although the protests were about a citizenship law, Muslim women were in fact pointing to various modes of belonging that cannot be captured by the bureaucratic apparatus of the state." journals.openedition.org/samaj/9727

Suraj Gogoi and Arijit Sen write about conditional citizenship in India and the US: scroll.in/article/1078...

Spring talks as part of @adeanamcn.bsky.social and my new Buddhism and Caste Initiative! (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) If you support this critical work, do sign up (if you haven't already) for our 2025 spring speaker series via QR code below! #BuddhismAndCaste

Please help us spread the word about this new @iehs.bsky.social event! We are excited to create new programming to foster a community for graduate students and early career scholars. Registration details below 👇🏽 @hidehirota.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @nellstra.bsky.social

Boats in a Storm received the Distinguished Book Award 2024 from the Asian Law and Society Association. Sincere thanks to ALSA and to Profs. Fukurai, Li and Biddulph that chose it for this tremendous honor @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.alsa.network/awards-compe...

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Very excited about the next Asian Legal History Conference! Kyoto, July 31-Aug.1, 2025. Proposals are due on March 15. #legalhistory

Two more weeks left to apply for the Hurst Institute for Legal History!

A real pleasure to be part of such a solid list! The folks at @contingent-mag.bsky.social do amazing work & it is always a joy to work with their team @marcus1984.bsky.social. Read my review of @kalramnath.bsky.social's excellent 'Boats in a Storm' - contingentmagazine.org/2024/10/20/a... >>

Love these Travancore themed postcards by Shruti Sharat and Sharat Sunder Rajeev (@owls.awl on Instagram).

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