Discover Dr. Ambedkar's profound influence on India's constitutional journey from 1919 to the making of the Constitution and beyond in 'The Foresighted Ambedkar' by Anurag Bhaskar. Unraveling decades of his pivotal role, this seminal work explores how he shaped key constitutional…

The 1949 film ‘Apna Desh’ has Pushpa Hans playing a woman abducted at partition, who, furious at her parents’ refusal to accept her when she is “recovered” from Pakistan, becomes the smuggler “Miss Kala Chashma”, smuggling gold and arms from Pakistan.

Fantastic find courtesy Manav Kapur. This land revenue qisam map of Delhi shows the amount of extensive ruins that surrounded Shahjahanabad pre New Delhi! They are marked as Khandrat - ruins. Also noteworthy is Basant village - that gives its names to Vasant Vihar and Kunj..

This is the correct link: iconnectblog.com/the-role-of-a-…

[Invitation] Lecture by Nitin Sinha on ‘Rule of Law, Summary Justice and Calcutta Police, 1770s-1800s’ on 16 April 2024. For Details, Click csds.in/rule_of_law_su…

Finally out!🙏How does the declaring of positionality reinforce racial hierarchies? Check out @Jasminekgani’s and my new article with @isq_jrnl⬇️

📢FRESH!

Spanning Kerala, the Arabian Gulf and more, the celebrated Malayalam novelist Benyamin’s works narrate the realities of globalisation from below, and the heavy burdens of displacement and migration.

A review essay by Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil: himalmag.com/reviews/benyam…

Loving the cover - and thanks for the very kind blurbs! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030026…

Dear friends, If you are in the Bay Area next month, please do come to this very exciting lecture by Prof. Sunil Amrith Sunil Amrith to be held at the Department of History at Stanford on Tuesday 7 May at 5 p.m. Details in the link below. :-)
history.stanford.edu/events/whose-p…

What can Southasian scholars gain from Indian Ocean studies?

These recent books on the Indian Ocean provides a new way of looking at the Subcontinent’s pasts. mailchi.mp/himalmag/south… KRamnath Nienke Boer Darshana M. Baruah Pan Macmillan India Yale Univ Press University of Texas Press Duke University Press

4th Dr BR Ambedkar Memorial Lecture.
We are glad to announce that Prof. Ajantha Subramanian, (Professor of Anthropology, The City University of New York) shall be speaking on the topic “Meritocracy and Democracy: Indian Reservations and the Politics of Caste” at this lecture.
Watch live on Live Law.

I reviewed KRamnath's BOATS IN A STORM here. I loved it, and funnily enough, through reading it and asking questions of my grandmother, I learned a lot about my own family's history of travelling and working in Burma, Ceylon and the Straits Settlements! 🌊📜⛴️

🎞️Following the launch of #Defiance , a new series on channel 4 documenting the British South-Asian anti-racist movement, we wanted to share some of our resources on the struggle.

📚Southall: The birth of a Black community irr.org.uk/product/southa…

I'm very happy to share that my book 'Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad,' (Cambridge University, 2023) is now available in Cambridge core series and it's open access. Please feel free to download and share your feedback!
cambridge.org/core/books/rem…

A vital, but massively under-explored, topic in constitutional law:

Get your hands on this early folks, it's 🔥🔥🔥 amazon.com/Solidarity-Eco…

Proud to share that Vibhuti Ramachandran, who received WG funding in 2012 has won the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences for her upcoming book, ''Immoral Traffic': An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India'. buff.ly/3TOkmgx

Super excited to share my ongoing work on government dashboards and charismatic data and to engage with an amazing group of scholars on their research at this weekend's cultures of datafication conference/workshop!

We're looking forward to hosting the Cultures of Datafication In & Across South Asia Workshop, April 12-13, Penn.
Keynotes by Ishtiaque Ahmed entee actuarial_self is @[email protected] Rida Qadri & Ursula Rao.
Reg. link: eventbrite.com/e/cultures-of-…
Full program: bit.ly/DataficationWo…

In case you missed this, the recordings of the event are now available here: youtu.be/UrhksSVkAC0.