JOB!!! First time for a job at Cam with South Asia’s intellectual history as part of the remit!
Delighted as YES ( some have asked) I will doing a new book and project ! Apply !!
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Spoke to bright young things at the storied St Stephen’s College. Memorably engaging. Indian Political Thought shows the way again!
Many congratulations and all good wishes, so very exciting
Sign up for the International Society for Intellectual History conference in June, "Men, Women, and Other Animals". 👇
Honoured to give one of the keynotes alongside @shrutikapila.bsky.social and Gianna Pomata...
@isih-blueskye.bsky.social
Next week's opening of a conference on India Political Thought at NLS! It is a rare pleasure to host one of my formative teachers. Come and hear Prof Palat's measure of Nehru & democracy!
Farewell, the great Shyam Bengal. His films ensured that I did History. Every film is a deep but human dive into the big events & phenomena of modern India. Take your pick from 1857, to Telangana, landlords, women, cooperatives, leaders & even the Constitution!
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Back briefly in Cambridge! Welcomed by friends and then the big surprise : a box of my book. Now in paperback !! Thank you @PrincetonUPress and big thanks to those who have read and engaged with my work
V much looking forward to reading it!
Same for London and Cambridge. All the chat is about home buying and beautifying! And figures who attract attentive envy. I’m done with football & cricket tho the former has its own voluble partisans
Fair but damning review of Harari's latest. "Yet like a chatbot, he [Harari] has a quasi-antagonistic relationship with his sources…mines other writers for material—a neat quip, a telling anecdote—but rarely seems taken with anyone else’s views."
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Call it by its name— Ritual and Ram Temple announce the Hindu State.
My column @ThePrintIndia
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Thrilled to have spent a terrific week at National Law School, Bangalore, Big Ideas :Important, Insightful,and Energetic: India at its best! Highlight of an engaging year!!
Unpopular Opinion:
As 2024 looks set for Modi it's the perfect moment for Congress to go solo and remake not just itself but Indian politics. Only a bipolar politics can contest the party-state trajectory of Indian politics.
theprint.in/opinion/indi...
It's 10 years since Tesco in Hampstead ran out of organic porridge, the point which for many people marks the start of the accelerated decline of this once great country.
Leaders as Feudal Overlords? Lavish campaigns only to announce pathetic guarantee schemes — India’s welfare system is broken as big money spent on elections. My take on this season of polls!
Telangana to MP, political funding is the bigger problem not welfare!
theprint.in/opinion/telang…
In “Intellectual History or Philosophical History? The Indian Century as Global Miniature” @raphaellekhan.bsky.social and I discuss Shruti Kapila’s Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
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"Hegel had no doubt that human history had been a “slaughter-bench”..Yet it had also delivered a form of life, defined by the principle of universal freedom, which we would never knowingly choose to relinquish."
A must read essay by Richard Bourke
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Cambridge constellation in the lecture series "Revolutions and Democracy in the Modern Era" at the University of Milan, featuring Richard Bourke, Shruti Kapila and Eugenio Biagini @camhistory.bsky.social
My glorious colleague Shruti Kapila, @shrutikapila.bsky.social, historian and author of "Violent Fraternity: Indian political thought in the global age", is On Here.
Thank you CB, you are too kind
