Absolutely thrilled to read Rosalind O'Hanlon's review of Scripts of Power :-) scroll.in/article/1085...

Thank you @farinamir.bsky.social for a generous and perceptive review of Scripts of Power!

Applications for the year-long RTP Certificate Course for 2025-26 at the CSSSC now open. For all details and queries about the programme, please check: www.cssscal.org/academic_pro... (Please share widely. And if you do, please share it with the above link)

My book *Scripts of Power* is now available on Kindle! If you have been longing to read the book but haven't been able to procure the paperback, esp. outside India, now's your chance 🙂https://amzn.in/d/6gJULj4

What have these barbarians done to Hinduism and to our country!!! 💔😢 aje.io/qebprg

Seminar this Friday at the CSSSC, at Jadunath Bhavan, open to all

Grateful for this detailed review of /Scripts of Power/ in the latest South Asian Studies. doi.org/10.1080/0266...

Thrilled to receive gorgeous new book by @moubanerjee28.bsky.social in the mail! For legal historians: I recommend ch.3 on the great Tagore will case. #SouthAsianHistory Congratulations, Mou!!

Surprised and pleased to find //Scripts of Power// in this list! www.saaganthology.com/vol-2-issue-...

Meeting Amiya Bagchi at the Centre in recent years went some way in mitigating the trauma of encountering his formidable book "Private Investment in India" as a clueless MA student in the Cap-Col class at CHS/JNU. www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

In an earlier life, I blogged earnestly about knitting and other crafty things at desiknitter.wordpress.com. I still knit (not so earnestly) but now I record all the action at Ravelry, the big fibre crafts site, and occasionally post pics to @grass_hamlet on Insta/FB,

Nagraj Adve lucidly spells out the implications of the failed COP29 discussions and the climate challenges looming before us, particularly in India, in the "In Focus podcast" of the Hindu with G. Sampath. Listen!! megaphone.link/THGU9916067771

www.thehindu.com/podcast/cop2... please listen to this detailed and illuminating interview with Nagraj Adve on the disappointing outcomes of COP29 for developing countries.

Call for Papers for the Yale Modern South Asia Workshop, to be held June 7-8, 2025. Travel, accommodation, and meals will be provided to all selected candidates for the duration of the Workshop in South Asia. macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/mo...

The time of year when you upload letter after letter after reference letter for PhD applications, agonize about getting in enough superlatives and exclamation marks and every last detail that could help, and then wonder about the whole point of this process.

Huge thanks to the excellent Chitralekha Zutshi for choosing Ruling Devotion as a book of the year in #HistoryToday 🥰

An investigation into cardamom cultivation in Kerala exposes how India is failing abjectly to regulate pesticide overuse and contamination in its spice production and trade. By @jeffjosephpaul.bsky.social www.himalmag.com/politics/car...

Delhi malls are advertising their good AQI as an escape for Delhiites who’re struggling to breathe. What in the dystopia.

You can see or listen to all episodes (barring a couple of off-the-record sessions) at youtube.com/playlist?lis... One discussion I really wanted to have was about caste and food. But first issue was where to begin! In India,vwe are brilliant at finding different ways to discriminate! 2/x

In lockdown, thanks to a Facebook group I run, I began to think about food and its intersections with every aspect of our lives. One result was a series of long public conversations on food, called Table Talk. (Link in replies.) It was too expensive to sustain, so I stopped at 20 episodes. 1/x

This week's reading - a new biography, a diwali ank, and a new "aperiodical" focused on genre fiction.

It’s voting day in Maharashtra tomorrow. We have split parties contesting against each other, and some folks may still be confused about which button to press at the EVMs. Here are some images friends and I made before the national elections. (Three more in the replies.)

I really thought no other state could top the circus that is Andhra politics but Maharashtra is so miles ahead

Is there an easy way to bookmark the starter packs you have joined on a separate tab on the menu?

A two-year, full-time Research Associate position in Cultural and Material History, working on a wonderful AHRC project on the Victorian Hand! Please share widely 😊😊😊 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Even the smallest action on the IRCTC website that doesn't log you out or make you put in three captchas feels like a grand achievement. Just "opted for meals" successfully on an already booked ticket. Feel ready to run a marathon now.

👋 Waving hello to many new followers - am a historian of early modern & modern South Asia. Research interests in language, historiography, scripts, print culture, and lately, anecdotes & memoirs. I post occasionally, but geek out on knitting, weaving, growing food, and old Hindi film music

Watching the #MakersForKamala livestream and thinking about what I might do. Thinking about a dedicated print for 50% donations: would you be interested in a butterfly bag? What factors would impact your decision? #knitspinquilt Poll on Instagram @knitspinquilt or check out the shop now on Etsy.

why is it so incredibly hard to turn down invitations to write things nobody will ever read for edited books nobody will ever buy? without getting paid? come on, brain, make this make sense

This is predictable yet terrifying; Delhi high court sides with regime propaganda network ANI against Wikipedia for correctly describing ANI as propaganda, threatens to close Wikipedia in India.

A test for 🦋 - let's see if you guys beat X 😉 #Urdu & #Persian experts, I need help with an accurate #translation of the following in modern linguistic terms. It's the diacriticals for the ت in the Indic word putra / پتر from the Tuhfat al-Hind. تای فوقانی خفیفتین به ضم اول و فتح و تشدید ثانی

Wren Diagram

It's a weft-facing weekend #learning #weaving #newtechniques #craftsky

Day 5 of being sick to my stomach about this.

www.thehindu.com/news/nationa... Tone-deaf!

Nothing, absolutely nothing, compares to hitting 'send' on a long-suffering survey article for an edited volume that you should never have agreed to write for in the first place. #academicsky

#showmeyourknits no knit garments for our hot and humid summer, but here are a couple of recent emotional support chickens in cotton!

#ShowMeYourKnits Not sure I have summer tops or Tees to share. I have some linen knits. 🧶 This is a linen-silk gradient. Pattern is Wild Swan by Nim Teasdale and Anne-Lise Maigaard.

How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find

Saturday at Grass Hamlet

I enjoyed translating the first three "Itihase Hatekhori" (First lessons in history) books for young readers on Partition, citizenship, and languages, from Bengali into Marathi. Grateful to be part of this initiative. Learned a lot about language and storytelling. We need more of these for kids!

Pleased to announce the multidisciplinary Research Training Programme (RTP), a new paid certificate course, at the CSSSC. Offline. For more information click here: www.cssscal.org/academic_pro... Please share with interested students.

Gob absolutely smacked #Knitting 🧶 www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/05/alth...

"We should all focus on the people of Gaza...But we should never forget that when college students and professors decided to strongly oppose the mass killing of civilians, so many of America’s leaders and major institutions decided the problem was the students and professors, not the killings."

Another review of Scripts of Power in EPW. It only reviews the 2nd half of the book 🤔, inadvertently reinforcing some of the book's arguments about persistent splits between pre-col. & colonial spheres of scholarship.https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/18/book-reviews/model-marathi-modern-marathi.html

Thanks to Sanjukta Poddar for a detailed review of //Scripts of Power// in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

It’s out! My first book, Pious Labor, can be read open access through the UC Press-Luminos project here (or you can buy the paperback for yourself or your library!): luminosoa.org/site/books/m...

2024 India. What a nightmare come alive. I’m afraid there’s no going back from this. He has successfully cast this whole country in his ugly, hate-filled, jingoistic image. As I made my way to work this morning the signs were telltale, all along the way. There is not going to be any escape.

Solidarity with friends in the Cal state system!