Morning all. This week I'm giving a couple of talks about Glorious Failure:
- Friday 9th, 6pm, India International Centre, Delhi
iicdelhi.in/programmes/f...
- Saturday 10th, 6pm, Sarmaya Arts Foundation, Mumbai
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Both free and open to all. Do come!
I did the #Page99 test with Glorious Failure. Results here page99test.blogspot.com/2025/10/robe...
Looking forward to this! Now I just need to prepare my paper 🫣
I wrote a review of Marine Bellégo's impressive book on the history of the botanical gardens of Calcutta. It should introduce the book to non-French speakers too. Open access
journals.openedition.org/caliban/14377
This is perfect for the introduction to my Colonialism in Perspective class next week. Thanks for posting 🙏
An interview about Glorious Failure for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Thanks to Mark Klobas for his thoughtful questions. Hopefully I get some of the book's key points across in the course of the hour
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Delighted to announce that I've just joined @sciencespo-grenoble.fr as Associate Professor (MCF) in History. This year's teaching:
- Colonialism in Perspective
- Indigenous Peoples and Decolonisation
- The Postcolonial Anglophone World
- History of Modern India
- The Climate Crisis: Global Responses
Glorious Failure is out now! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/gloriou...
'a pacy, perceptive history' — @pratinavanil.bsky.social
'a compelling and accessible read' — @davidveevers.bsky.social
'a dazzling triumph’ — @drshashitharoor.bsky.social
Other comments welcome!
Intriguing!
It does look quite dashing. I need to finish a week of very hilly cycling before getting home and having my hands on a copy 🤓
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who launched the first French East India Company in 1664. I happen to be in his hometown, Reims, today. #GloriousFailure is published on Thursday! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
En route for the @saesfrance.org congress in Toulouse. Train 3/3, a fitting bit of #slowtravel before Friday’s panel on environmental transition
Glorious Failure reviewed by
@pratinavanil.bsky.social for the Literary Review. Publication date is June 26th :) @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
literaryreview.co.uk/from-paris-t...
I read it recently, very interesting!
Thanks, I hope they do! 🙏
Thanks, I hope so 🙏
Final proofs of #GloriousFailure just checked. Publication is in 5 weeks... Thanks to @drshashitharoor.bsky.social and @davidveevers.bsky.social (among others) for the endorsements!
Just noticed that an old article of mine on religious and customary law in colonial Punjab is now freely available on Jstor. It was the first article I ever had published. Dig in!
www.jstor.org/stable/24494... @jstor.bsky.social
Two weeks without teaching now but a lot of reading to do for new project 🤓📚 @amitav.bsky.social
It’s out!
Jean-Marie #LePen will be remembered for the racism and anti-Semitism he invoked in French politics. Read about the time Nabila Ramdani met the #LePens in #FixingFrance and the ongoing impact of the #NationalRally and the #FarRight in #France.
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Coming soon, just what exactly did the French get up to in eighteenth century India? Short answer: no good. #GloriousFailure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India
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