🦠 Cover reveal! 🦠

PARASITIC EMPIRES, forthcoming from @uncpress in Fall 2026. Please pre-order using this link: uncpress.org/978146969725...

Asha Bhosle, one of India’s most versatile Bollywood singers, dies at 92 Asha Bhosle, a legendary Bollywood singer, has died at 92. She passed away Sunday due to multiple organ failure at a Mumbai hospital, according to a physician there.

Asha Bhosle, one of India’s most versatile Bollywood singers whose performances shaped the country’s musical memory and modern cinema, has died. She was 92.

Journal of Mughal Studies This journal's first issue is coming soon.

Happy Friday to all, but especially to the new Journal of Mughal Studies.

500 years after the empire dawned... first issue coming soon.

escholarship.org/uc/journalof... #Mughals #India #history #scholarship #highered

They are tulips, thanks wise folk of Bluesky

Thanks both. It makes sense, these are growing in shade.

Fat pink buds of a peony opening? Among some ivy, slate and green foliage

Are these #peonies?

🔔⏰Just over 1 month to go! ⏰🔔

Call for papers: Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'

A two-day workshop organised by
@andrewseaton.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.

Details in poster below!

My astonishingly brilliant and generous friend @mitrasharafi.bsky.social's magisterial second monograph, "The fear of the False" has been published from @cornellupress.bsky.social. And it is open access. RUN and READ:

library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Rishi Sunak posted about Bodhana Sivanandan becoming England’s top female chess player at 11 years old. So many of the comments are ‘but you aren’t English’ and ‘she isn’t English.’

Salaam. I have a website now: pashamkhan.com
. I coded it by hand (with Eleventy), so you'd better like it. The 8th square will be for my page on Lord Rasgulla 😤✨

He’s well aware and carefully growing his whiskers 🙄

Brown-gold-black Cairn terrier puppy lying on off-white grey carpeted floor next to the remains of chewed measuring tape. Looking defiantly at me from the floor.

He’s not happy I told him off for eating the measuring tape. God help me through the puppy phase.

27th Conference European Association for South Asian Archaeology & Art July 2026, at Universiteit Gent 🏛
For researchers working on the archaeology, art history, & material cultures of South Asia, a space for new research, discussion, collaboration. Register here: easaa2026.ugent.be/en/registrat...

CFP: Race, Law and Empire

New exhibition to explore histories of Black and South Asian feminist pioneers "Women Strike Back!"

Go @saimanasar.bsky.social! This new exhibition about Black & Asian women’s activism in Britain looks amazing! Excited to go check it out in #Bristol soon…

www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

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 he’s 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.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

Tibetan gift-giving, British indifference, and the erasure of provenance in colonial india* Abstract. In 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet dispatched a lavish diplomatic gift to the viceroy of India. However, upon its arrival the colonial a

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, 1914-67– with Dr Kalathmika Natarajan (University of Exeter). Join us for a public seminar this Wednesday.

📍Oxford Department for International Development 
📅 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

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀?
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 I’ve lived with for six years. It’s out in the world now for you to have it. Available from bookstores across India and online.