Really looking forward to discussing my book with a great panel of @itihaasnaama.bsky.social, @nsultan.bsky.social, and Uday Mehta at Brown this Friday.
For those in the Providence/ Boston area that might be interested, the registration link is in the comments.
Thank you!
Today, Palantir posted their manifesto to millions. I published an analysis of exactly this text in @sciasculture.bsky.social, arguing it functions not as political theory but as a corporate manifesto for the nationalist-militarist faction of the tech oligarchy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Really looking forward to discussing my book with a great panel of @itihaasnaama.bsky.social, @nsultan.bsky.social, and Uday Mehta at Brown this Friday.
For those in the Providence/ Boston area that might be interested, the registration link is in the comments.
Thanks Manan!
Thank you :)
Honored to receive the Bernard Cohn first book prize. Thank you to the @asianstudies.org for this recognition.
Clifford Geertz's “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” is my favorite example
Had a chance to read this in draft form. Cannot recommend highly enough.
The CFP is now up for the 6th Asian Legal History Conference, which will be in Melaka, Malaysia (6-7 August 2026). Proposals are due by 1 April 2026 (Malaysia time): www.mmu.edu.my/fol/alhc2026/ #LegalHistory
Highly symbolic attachments to singular leaders like Modi or Trump isn't about too much democracy, says Sandipto Dasgupta.
From our latest episode on the making of independent India:
🎧: www.patreon.com/posts/528-he...
Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.
𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
A new era for LPE — a more democratic one, not subject to university administrators and not reliant on funder money.
LPE lfg
lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...
Buying a copy tomorrow to frame it
Watch Dan Edelstein speak on his book, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin, in conversation with @judith-surkis.bsky.social and @sandipto.bsky.social on October 10th.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfGW...
Excited about this discussion on my book tomorrow.
Will be streamed on Youtube
8 PM IST/ 2.30 PM GMT/ 9.30 AM EST
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Symposium on the Bandung Conference and the Third World's many International Laws at @ajil.bsky.social
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Thank you!
I wrote a little bit about Aimé Césaire's play A Season in the Congo, written after Patrice Lumumba's assassination, for
@bostonreview.bsky.social.
Mahmood Mamdani's new book (just released from @harvardpress.bsky.social) is an account of the fate of postcolonial Uganda, intertwined with a intellectual and political autobiography.
... politically pursue the other. In my view, given our current conjecture of capitalism anti-monopoly is an immensely important political argument to make, and one that would have wide support. However, the distinction is important to keep in mind, FWIW.
