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The Friday Times

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2 weeks ago

An in-depth dialogue traces empire, Partition, and rural Sindh’s power structure through Dr David Cheesman’s historic lens.
By Zaffar Junejo

Read more: thefridaytimes.com/24-Feb-2026/...

#DavidCheesman #ColonialSindh #WaderoPolitics #SouthAsianHistory #LandAndPower #PostcolonialStudies #Historic

The Friday Times

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2 weeks ago

From Third World Geopolitics To Rural Power In Colonial Sindh Growing up in a diplomatic family, Dr Cheesman witnessed monumental historical shifts firsthand, from his early years in the British Raj to the

From colonial Sindh to modern Pakistan, Dr David Cheesman unpacks Wadero power, debt, empire, and enduring elite rule.
By Zaffar Junejo

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/24-Feb-2026/...

#DavidCheesman #ColonialSindh #WaderoPolitics #SouthAsianHistory #LandAndPower #PostcolonialStudies

The Friday Times

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3 weeks ago

Poet, Strategist, And Architect Of A Dynasty: Marking Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur' 543rd Birthday The Baburnama remains a unique historical text, distinguished from typical royal chronicles by its author’s self-criticism, empirical observation, and personal

On his 543rd birth anniversary, we remember Babur—not only as a conqueror, but as a poet, memoirist, and founder of a dynasty that shaped South Asia for centuries.
By Adkhamjon Janobiddinov

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/15-Feb-2026/...

#Babur #MughalEmpire #SouthAsianHistory #Baburnama

Martin Koenigsberg (MarTMar) (SteelyDab)

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1 month ago

Just finished my 7th Book Review of the Year! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #7thTo16thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #SouthAsianHistory #IndianHistory #PakistaniHistory #BangladeshiHistory #NepaliHistory #Infantry #LightCavalry #Archers #HistBookChat
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German Historical Institute London

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1 month ago

The Changing Face of Factory Regimes in South Asia: The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Workshops in Parel, Bombay, between 1879 and 1939 In 1879, Bombay (today Mumbai) saw the opening of the workshops of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company (GIPR) in Parel, the single largest industrial complex in the city at the time. On a site of roughly sixty acres it employed thousands of workers to maintain the locomotives and wagons that facilitated passenger travel and … Continue reading The Changing Face of Factory Regimes in South Asia: The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Workshops in Parel, Bombay, between 1879 and 1939

racial management of the workforce, and the emergence of trade unions and staff councils that reshaped labour relations far beyond the railways.

Read his blog post now: ghil.hypotheses.org/...

#skystorians #southasianhistory #labourhistory #colonialhistory #railways #historyblog #researchblog
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The Friday Times

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1 month ago

Printing And Reading Culture In Colonial Shikarpur While the British introduced printing for administration and control, Sindhi society adopted it to debate ideas, preserve culture, and navigate social change

Print culture in colonial Sindh was more than ink and paper—it was how society debated, remembered, and preserved itself amid change
By Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/30-Jan-2026/...

#SindhiHistory #PrintCulture #ColonialSindh #Shikarpur #LiteraryHeritage #SouthAsianHistory

@reenitastoryteller.bsky.social

1 month ago

A wife. A steamboat. A seven-hour journey to ask farmers for bail money. Before the bridge, before the freeways — this is how you funded a revolution.

Tag someone who needs to know this story exists.

#RevolutionsWife #Gadar #SouthAsianHistory #SanFranciscoHistory #shortfilm

The Friday Times

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1 month ago

Amartya Sen’s formative years reveal how education, trauma, books, and pluralism forged a thinker committed to justice beyond borders.
By Dr. Nasreen Rehman

Read: thefridaytimes.com/22-Jan-2026/...

#AmartyaSen #IntellectualHistory #Pluralism #PartitionMemory #HumanistThought #SouthAsianHistory

Muhammad Awais

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2 months ago

The Khokhar caste has a proud history rooted in courage, independence, and cultural strength across South Asia.
#khokhar #heritage #southasianhistory

The Friday Times

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2 months ago

Physician to the poor, leader of the Khilafat era, and founder of Jamia Millia—Dr Ansari’s legacy shaped history without monuments.
By Syed Amir

Read more: thefridaytimes.com/14-Jan-2026/...

#MukhtarAhmadAnsari #ForgottenHeroes #SouthAsianHistory #FreedomMovement #MedicalHumanitarian

The Friday Times

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2 months ago

Healing Hands, Revolutionary Heart: The Life Of Dr Mukhtar Ansari In Istanbul, Dr Ansari observed the decrepit state of the once-mighty capital and documented the grievous injuries of soldiers in the pre-antibiotic era

Once a household name, Dr Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari was a healer, freedom fighter, and bridge between nations—yet remains forgotten in South Asia.
By Syed Amir

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/14-Jan-2026/...

#MukhtarAhmadAnsari #ForgottenHeroes #SouthAsianHistory #FreedomMovement #MedicalHumanitarian

The Friday Times

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2 months ago

Bhisham Sahni: From Rawalpindi To Bombay I left Rawalpindi long ago, yet whenever I return in memory, I go to Gordon College and to Alam Khan Road, where a house still stands, waiting for those who

Bhisham Sahni’s life mirrors Partition’s tragedy—memory, exile, loss, and creativity shaped by a Rawalpindi he could never return to.
By Dr. Shahid Siddiqui

Read: www.thefridaytimes.com/11-Jan-2026/...

#BhishamSahni #PartitionMemory #LiteraryLegacy #Rawalpindi #SouthAsianHistory #CulturalMemory

The Friday Times

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2 months ago

Rafiullah Khan’s edited volume reveals how princely states used archaeology as power, patronage, and cultural self-definition in modern South Asia.
By Sirat Gohar Daudpoto

Read more: thefridaytimes.com/02-Jan-2026/...

#SouthAsianHistory #Archaeology #PrincelyStates #Heritage

The Friday Times

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2 months ago

Not Just A Colonial Tool: How South Asia's Native Rulers Championed Archaeology Thanks to the dedicated efforts of historians like Upinder Singh, Nayanjot Lahiri, and editor Rafiullah Khan, the academic focus is finally shifting toward

Princely states were not passive subjects of colonial archaeology; they built institutions to explore, protect, and shape South Asia’s ancient past
By Sirat Gohar Daudpoto

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#SouthAsianHistory #Archaeology #PrincelyStates #HeritageStudies

Martin Koenigsberg (MarTMar) (SteelyDab)

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2 months ago

Zounds - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #19thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #BritishImperialHistory #SouthAsianHistory #AfricanHistory #RussianImperialHistory #AsianHistory #SikhWars #CrimeanWar #MaoriWars #ZuluWar #Sudan #HistBookChat

Himal Southasian

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2 months ago

Revisiting Jinnah through the archives.
A selection of Himal articles that reflect on his political thought, legacy, and the many ways he has been interpreted over time.
#SouthasianHistory #Archives

Martin Koenigsberg (MarTMar) (SteelyDab)

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2 months ago

Look UP New Old Book! #SouthAsianHistory #Phalanx #TheWarsOfAlexander #WargameResearch #AlexanderTheGreat #HisArmiesAndCampaigns334to323BC #NickSekunda #JohnWarry #TheMilitaryBookClub #OspreyMilitary #Hoplite #Peltast #Hypaspists #SwordAndSpear #WRG #AncientWargaming @ospreypublishing.bsky.social

H-Net

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3 months ago

FEATURED JOB: Faculty Fellow, Department of Religious Studies - New York University Arts and Science

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#edusky #academicsky #religiousstudies #theology #southasianhistory #southasianstudies #history

Martin Koenigsberg (MarTMar) (SteelyDab)

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4 months ago

Martin Koenigsberg's review of Slim (Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century. War leader book) 4/5: My father always felt that Slim was the greatest of all the Allied Generals, save perhaps the genius Eisenhower had for coalition warfare. As my father was a polymath university professor and I a...

Just finished my 73rd Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #BritishImperialHistory #RajHistory #SouthAsianHistory #IndianHistory #PakistaniHistory #BangladeshiHistory #JapaneseImperialHistory #HistBookChat
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Martin Koenigsberg (MarTMar) (SteelyDab)

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5 months ago

Trip to Denver for a CMH meeting and supplies - one of the lads found a cache of Ballantine's! #GarageSaleScore!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #BritishImperialHistory #RajHistory #SouthAsianHistory #IndianHistory #PakistaniHistory #BurmaHistory #HistBookChat

Columbia University Press

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6 months ago

Mme Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit built one of the first school milk programs in India by taxing homes one penny. Watch this video to find out how she built the milk fund and fixed classrooms in dire need or repair. buff.ly/DbcQ4Y5 #WomensHistory #WomenInLeadership #SouthAsianHistory #History #India

MUSLIM Institute

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6 months ago

MUSLIM PERSPECTIVES Volume 9, Issue 3, 2024

Genesis of the Kashmir and Junagadh Issues: Embedded in the Deviations between the Principles Founded vs the Principles Implemented

Article Link:
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#Partition1947 #IndiaPakistanRelations #SouthAsianHistory

H-Net

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6 months ago

FEATURED JOB: Associate Professor/Professor - Dr. Davindra Singh Chair in Sikh Studies [Tenure-Track] University of Toronto - Mississauga

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#academicsky #edusky #humanities #religiousstudies #southasianhistory #theology

Alexander Foote

@otakuo15.bsky.social

7 months ago

#mugualempire #mughalprincess #southasianhistory

Hindus For Human Rights

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9 months ago

On this day in 1914, the Komagata Maru was denied entry into Canada—turning away hundreds of South Asian passengers due to racist exclusion laws.

We remember this act of injustice, and honor the resistance of those who demanded dignity and belonging.
#KomagataMaru #SouthAsianHistory

DM De Alwis

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10 months ago

005 | The Coming of Vijaya We're back to Vijaya this week. Listen to the chronicle written over 1500 years after his time. What was so special about this king that the Buddhist priests would chronicle not only his ancestry but ...

A few centuries after Homer wrote down the Odyssey, a future South Asian king experienced his own odyssey. Here's what was recorded in the chronicles over a thousand years later.

#history #southasianhistory #mythology #odyssey #storytelling

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Florian Stadtler 🦀

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10 months ago

🧵 #southasianhistory #secondworldwar #ww2

@ufvpresident.bsky.social

1 year ago

#NationalTreasure:
"Photos fill a historical gap in the Canadian narrative, where the stories of over a million South Asian Canadians have gone untold."

Read more at #UFVToday:
blogs.ufv.ca/blog/2025/02...

#History #CanadianHistory #SouthAsianHistory #Research #Stories
#goUFV

Mitra Sharafi

@mitrasharafi.bsky.social

1 year ago

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!!

Eleonor Marcussen

@eleonormarcus.bsky.social

1 year ago

Hope to see more people around on Bluesky soon!
#history #postcolonialstudies
#SouthAsianHistory