Historian of South Asia. Mother. Cat person.
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This is what academic solidarity and courage looks like.
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A short primer on the recent protests in #Bangladesh and the longer history behind #SheikhHasina's fall from power.
by @cannafis_
jamhoor.org/read/the-spectre…
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.@BBC insisting on reporting racist rioters as 'protestors' and 'demonstrators' is a gross misrepresentation of the violence impacting communities of colour across the UK. Language matters.
“Protests”. You keep saying “protests” @BBCNews - do you mean white supremacists are on the streets terrorising Muslims? What exactly are they “protesting” against?
ALT A BBC image of police in riot gear and a headline saying LIVE: More than 90 arrests after violence erupts at several UK protests”
Really looking forward to this next week!
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With articles by @akkhan81 Arsalan Khan, Farhana Ibrahim, Antara Datta @buchu Uttara Shahani, @FarooqiMehr @waheed_sarah Shahla Hussain @aziakashmir in the wake of CAA and renewed debates on citizenship and belonging. #1971 #CAA #SouthAsia #Partition
Our volume edited by @NeetiNair on citizenship and belonging across South Asia, originally published in Asian Affairs, is now available in book form through Routledge. Lots of great articles. Do check it out! amazon.com/Citizenship-Belon…
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Postdoc job in London! The Production of Climate Justice. A big new project with the wonderful @PaulineSophieH. Details here: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/090348-postdo…
#climatejustice
With everyone muttering about the importance of the Constitution in this election I urge you to read two things: @sandiptodg’s new book and @itihaasnaama’s wonderful new article in Past and Present: academic.oup.com/past/articl…
Congratulations to #NSSRfaculty Sandipto Dasgupta (@sandiptodg) on the publication of his first book, LEGALIZING THE REVOLUTION: INDIA AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE POSTCOLONY (@CambridgeUP).
Check out more ⏩ cambridge.org/us/universityp…
I woke up at 4 am to follow the election news and the coverage these guys provided was absolutely sensational. As someone who teaches South Asian history and politics it is always humbling to learn from those with genuine on the ground granular knowledge.
Collaborations between news organizations are rare, but we managed to pull it off. We- @thenewsminute @newslaundry @thewire_in @scroll_in and @thecaravanindia know that our strength is in numbers and it’s been a superb experience.
These are horrendous scenes. Let no one ever ever say our pandemic era students are ‘snowflakes.’ They are the very best of us.
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Antara Datta retweeted
"Will there be singing in the dark times?
Yes there will also be singing
About the dark times"
Students singing at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia university yesterday. – at Morningside Heights, Manhattan
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Jinal Parekh (@JinalP) and Anara Datta (@buchu) use India’s 1979 complaint to the UN Human Rights Commission about the ‘virginity test’ at Heathrow to re-examine the changing role of discourses about race in postcolonial institutions of global governance. doi.org/10.1017/S17400228230…
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Here are some of the other attacks on aid workers in Gaza which have not had the same investigative treatment by the IDF. They did not draw the same international outrage either.
This was a fantastic way to start the week. This was a brilliant thesis, a pleasure to read and I learned a great deal from it.
my brilliant PhD student @sheekha_d passed her viva yesterday with no corrections, defending a thesis entitled 'Interstitial Itineraries: the making of race, caste, and capital in the Indian diaspora'; thanks to @buchu and @SankaranKrishn who were fantastic examiners
The CAA news is unsurprising. Linking to a few things to read on the question
My take on precisely why the National Register of Citizens is such a monstrous idea, which - coupled with the #CAA - will divide and devour India like no previous bureaucratic measure ever has. #NRC scroll.in/article/948969/the…
Apoorvanand and @char_chapori m.thewire.in/article/communa…
On the politics of the CAA in Assam and what makes it different thequint.com/opinion/caa-bjp… from @saha_abhi1990 who also has an excellent book on this.
@sahanagee on ‘Between Faith and Panic’ polarjournal.org/2020/09/07/…
