Eléonore Rimbault takes the p. 99 test
No matter the size of shows, and the actual count of the public, the Indian circus works hard to appear larger-than-life. The image of the circus, in other…
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Nationalism in the Vernacular: Tribes, State and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India – review
In Nationalism in the Vernacular: Tribes, State and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India, Roluahpuia considers how oral culture has shaped the nationalist imagination of the Mizo, an indigenous po…
The rumour of The Rumour of Calcutta is true
Seen in the wild in India//purchased with rupees by a close friend from a close friend who runs a bookstall – I notice the cover has with a…
Between Pain and Relief: Morphine’s Ambiguities in India
The root of the word morphine is Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. Neil Gaiman’s contemporary reimagining of the character in his magnum opus Sandman likewise thrusts upon…
Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms
“Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms and Our Academic Freedom A Call for Solidarity” Not usually a petition signer, but in this case there is informative text and urgent reasons…. …
Two (Satyajit Ray 1963) and Amar Lenin (Ritwik Ghatak 1970) [for ease of access]
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 and This is it.
Subcontinental Media
I am very happy to have got this out, thanks to all at and in the journal: Please email me to get a pdf if you have not…
Shaila Seshia Galvin discusses her book, Becoming Organic
Interview by Ziya Kaya https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300215014/becoming-organic Ziya Kaya: In your book, Becoming Organic, you take us to various sites of pre- and post-agricultural p…
The Rumour of Calcutta update
27 22 years ago my first book was typeset and laid out in the days before electronics – well, an electric typesetting machine was plugged into a wall,…
Marx and South Asia
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies vol 1 2023…
Feelings of hurt and hate in post-partition South Asia: A Conversation with Neeti Nair
In the book, Hurt Sentiments, historian Neeti Nair traces a political history of secularism, one which made a virtue out of hurt in twentieth-century India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.…
Review: Have You Eaten Yet?
Cheuk Kwan. Have You Eaten Yet?: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World. Pegasus Books. New York and London. 2023. ISBN: 978-1-63936-334-6. pp. 260. …
Michele Friedner on her book, Sensory Futures
Interview by Timothy Y. Loh https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sensory-futures Tim Loh: Congratulations on this exciting new book! Your first book, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban …
Riotinto – multi-scalar defeat, yaay!
This one is a welcome defeat for the mining corp… See more on riot Tinto on this blog here: https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/?s=Riotinto (note, reposting this article is not meant to…
Comparative Adversaria – of Gandhi and Marx
<first 50 copies online free – click this link> https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HSKSEYWUIKXDZHP8E2SN/full?target=10.1080/14649373.2023.2156129
Against Charity
I wrote my first book as a critique of charity work in Kolkata, India. I attempted a critique of western ‘charity’ workers helping those they saw as the…
Tipu Sultan’s rocket man
Great discussion of iron smelting for coins and guns by Amitabha Ghosh in Aniruddha Ray (ed) “Tipu Sultan and his Age” . Asiatic Society 2002, Park Street. Much…
Global South Asia on Screen
Did I mention the yellow cover version out with Aakar books in India? https://www.aakarbooks.com/details.php?bid=875 https://www.aakarbooks.com/details.php?bid=875
Katy Highet takes the page 99 test
I wasn’t expecting my p. 99 – right in the middle of my methodology – to be particularly revealing. But as luck (or indeed Ford Madox Ford) would…
You Are What You Grow: Crops, Cultivation, and Caste in India
The allure of the onion Fieldwork can produce odd obsessions. As an anthropologist studying agrarian risk economies, mine was onions. In the central Indian region of Malwa where…
Study Study Study – then read like Bhagat Singh
Most interesting post of the day, and by far, has been this attached article on Bhagat Singh and anarchism, shifting to socialism. A few points fist though. I…
Global South Asia on Screen
The full wraparound cover: https://www.aakarbooks.com/details.php?bid=875
Netaji aggregator post
I do not want to attract new madness, the old madness does well enough. Here, a summary of various items of fun fact* where *I use the term…
Leya Mathew discusses her book, English Linguistic Imperialism from Below
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/English-Linguistic-Imperialism-from-Below/?k=9781788929134 Interview by Shivani Nag Shivani Nag: It would be helpful if you could first intr…