RIP Professors Hermann Kulke, Walid Khalidi, and KN Panikkar.
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RIP Professors Hermann Kulke, Walid Khalidi, and KN Panikkar.
Cairn terrier puppy wearing a grey jumper standing on his hind legs with his paws on a cream chair seat
He says heโs innocent
Close up of a brindle Cairn Terrier nose and moustache
The snout of an unrepentant sinner
I'm pleased to announce the publication of my book Rethinking Islamic Modernism: Religious Identity and Community in Colonial North India, which came out earlier this year in the McGill-Queen's University Press series on Modern Islamic Thought, edited by Muhammad Qasim Zaman and Humeira Iqtidar.
I put on my lawyer hat for this piece on time limits under Indian citizenship legislation, and ongoing constitutional challenges in the Indian Supreme Court for Statelessness and Citizenship Review:
statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...
Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.socialโs Professor Sumita Mukherjee!
on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India"
by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Another very attractive job offer (only two years, alas) to join the Faculty of History in Cambridge!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Do join us to hear @kalathmika.bsky.social speak on her important new book
Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class, and Indenture Abroad, 1914-67โ with Dr Kalathmika Natarajan (University of Exeter). Join us for a public seminar this Wednesday.
๐Oxford Department for International Developmentย
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5pm-6pm, 18 Feb
Registration not required
Small niece has announced that she is moving in and we can be her parents. Sister and BIL can visit. Obviously the new puppy has nothing to do with this.
Hello Billy! Our little pal likes barking at birds from behind glass panes as well.
Brindle cairn terrier puppy with chew toy lying on his stomach on a grey carpet.
#TerrierTuesday
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The UniGR-CBS is pleased to announce the launch of its 2026 Research Fellowships! Eligible are postdoctoral researchers, senior researchers, and professors.
Apply now (28/02/2026): fellow.borderstudies.org
Today is the publication day for my new novel Maryam & Son, a book Iโve lived with for six years. Itโs out in the world now for you to have it. Available from bookstores across India and online.
If youโre in #Southampton, this #HMD2026 event tomorrow, focusing on the Roma and Sinti genocide (sometimes called the Porrajmos, โdevouringโ), looks excellent:
Scottish influence on South Indian Carnatic music (composition in Sanskrit):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-a...
Congratulations!!
I'm very pleased to share this project I've been a part of about rare historical photographs of the Pakistan movement and the 1947 partition of South Asia. The images were taken by Lahore-based photographer Muhammad Bakhsh Bhatti and generously made available by his grandson, Shahzeb Bhatti. 1/3
Blue poster with images of newspaper article headlines on problems faced by 'Harijans' marginalised castes regarding being 'stranded' at partition, not allowed to migrate, their evacuation, and townships for them.
#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop:
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth ยฃ8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.
PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of ยฃ8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Blue poster with images of newspaper article headlines on problems faced by 'Harijans' marginalised castes regarding being 'stranded' at partition, not allowed to migrate, their evacuation, and townships for them.
#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop:
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Does anyone know of scholars currently working on the history of defamation (libel, slander) or more broadly on law and reputation, or even law and honor, in history? Any time, any place.
The good folks at India's The Wire have recruited me to write a regular column on history. In this inaugural essay, I talk about the myths around the history of plastic surgery and the Sushruta-samhita, & about the semi-famous Cowasjee who got a "nose job" in 1794.
thewire.in/history/the-...
academic friends: li'l help here? I'd like to get added to a starter pack or 2 but I must be missing something b/c I'm having no luck. Historian of #earlymodern Scandinavia, esp. Denmark/Oldenburg dynastic state, war & religion. You'd have my semi-eternal gratitude
Two weeks to go!
"1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia" is open for submissions until 1 Feb 2026 โจ
Link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
@sheelalipi.bsky.social @olebirklaursen.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social
By the time I wear the 26 layers I need to leave the house I need a nap.
Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New joiners today?
Historians of South Asia starter pack below:
go.bsky.app/zUV84F
weโre in the vetโs office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff