Uttara
@uttara.bsky.social
New member of the family
February 7, 2026 at 7:51 PM
New member of the family
Trying to update some reading lists. Would love recommendations on books and articles on the scramble for and partition of Africa, especially more recent ones. #skystorians
February 7, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Trying to update some reading lists. Would love recommendations on books and articles on the scramble for and partition of Africa, especially more recent ones. #skystorians
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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
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
January 26, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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
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
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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.
January 26, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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.
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If you’re in #Southampton, this #HMD2026 event tomorrow, focusing on the Roma and Sinti genocide (sometimes called the Porrajmos, “devouring”), looks excellent:
📢Last call to get tickets for Southampton's Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day 2026 event tomorrow evening. To join us, sign up using the link below:
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...
January 26, 2026 at 6:36 PM
If you’re in #Southampton, this #HMD2026 event tomorrow, focusing on the Roma and Sinti genocide (sometimes called the Porrajmos, “devouring”), looks excellent:
Scottish influence on South Indian Carnatic music (composition in Sanskrit):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-a...
Shauri Vidhi Nute
YouTube video by T. M. Krishna - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Scottish influence on South Indian Carnatic music (composition in Sanskrit):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-a...
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I'm very pleased to share this project I've been a part of about rare historical photographs of the Pakistan movement and the 1947 partition of South Asia. The images were taken by Lahore-based photographer Muhammad Bakhsh Bhatti and generously made available by his grandson, Shahzeb Bhatti. 1/3
Toward Partition and Beyond
dpul.princeton.edu
January 22, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I'm very pleased to share this project I've been a part of about rare historical photographs of the Pakistan movement and the 1947 partition of South Asia. The images were taken by Lahore-based photographer Muhammad Bakhsh Bhatti and generously made available by his grandson, Shahzeb Bhatti. 1/3
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#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop:
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
January 22, 2026 at 11:54 AM
#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop:
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
January 22, 2026 at 8:47 AM
PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop:
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
January 22, 2026 at 11:54 AM
#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop:
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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Does anyone know of scholars currently working on the history of defamation (libel, slander) or more broadly on law and reputation, or even law and honor, in history? Any time, any place.
January 21, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Does anyone know of scholars currently working on the history of defamation (libel, slander) or more broadly on law and reputation, or even law and honor, in history? Any time, any place.
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The good folks at India's The Wire have recruited me to write a regular column on history. In this inaugural essay, I talk about the myths around the history of plastic surgery and the Sushruta-samhita, & about the semi-famous Cowasjee who got a "nose job" in 1794.
thewire.in/history/the-...
thewire.in/history/the-...
The History of Sushruta and the Famous 'Indian Nose Job'
The famous Cowasji’s unknown “plastic surgeon” was not an elite Ayurvedist, but was nevertheless a skilled practitioner, and belonged to the larger traditions and knowledge-systems of medicine in the ...
thewire.in
January 17, 2026 at 2:18 AM
The good folks at India's The Wire have recruited me to write a regular column on history. In this inaugural essay, I talk about the myths around the history of plastic surgery and the Sushruta-samhita, & about the semi-famous Cowasjee who got a "nose job" in 1794.
thewire.in/history/the-...
thewire.in/history/the-...
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academic friends: li'l help here? I'd like to get added to a starter pack or 2 but I must be missing something b/c I'm having no luck. Historian of #earlymodern Scandinavia, esp. Denmark/Oldenburg dynastic state, war & religion. You'd have my semi-eternal gratitude
January 14, 2026 at 1:12 PM
academic friends: li'l help here? I'd like to get added to a starter pack or 2 but I must be missing something b/c I'm having no luck. Historian of #earlymodern Scandinavia, esp. Denmark/Oldenburg dynastic state, war & religion. You'd have my semi-eternal gratitude
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Two weeks to go!
"1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia" is open for submissions until 1 Feb 2026 ✨
Link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
@sheelalipi.bsky.social @olebirklaursen.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social
"1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia" is open for submissions until 1 Feb 2026 ✨
Link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
@sheelalipi.bsky.social @olebirklaursen.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Two weeks to go!
"1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia" is open for submissions until 1 Feb 2026 ✨
Link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
@sheelalipi.bsky.social @olebirklaursen.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social
"1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia" is open for submissions until 1 Feb 2026 ✨
Link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
@sheelalipi.bsky.social @olebirklaursen.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social
By the time I wear the 26 layers I need to leave the house I need a nap.
January 14, 2026 at 1:02 PM
By the time I wear the 26 layers I need to leave the house I need a nap.
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Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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January 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
They don’t dance together anymore but Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy were 👌 in this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7FM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7FM...
Ardhanarishwara by Nrityagram
YouTube video by NATARAJA dance group
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:54 PM
They don’t dance together anymore but Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy were 👌 in this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7FM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7FM...
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What if Sri Lanka’s Muslim past is best read through monsoon-route pilgrims & merchants—not empires? What shifts when Arabic, Tamil, Malay, Ottoman, Urdu, Dhivehi, and Sinhala sources meet for the first time in "Serendipitous Translations"?👂🏽to Nile Green: newbooksnetwork.com/serendipitou...
January 10, 2026 at 4:55 AM
What if Sri Lanka’s Muslim past is best read through monsoon-route pilgrims & merchants—not empires? What shifts when Arabic, Tamil, Malay, Ottoman, Urdu, Dhivehi, and Sinhala sources meet for the first time in "Serendipitous Translations"?👂🏽to Nile Green: newbooksnetwork.com/serendipitou...
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Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
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The 2026 #WolfsonHistoryPrize is open to submissions from publishers from 9 December 2025 – 19 January 2026.
The Wolfson History Prize is the most valuable history writing prize in the UK.
Find out more. ⬇️
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/submissions/
The Wolfson History Prize is the most valuable history writing prize in the UK.
Find out more. ⬇️
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/submissions/
Submissions - Eligibility and rules of entry
Eligibility and rules of entry for the Wolfson History Prize, the UK's most prestigious history-writing prize.
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
January 8, 2026 at 8:55 AM
The 2026 #WolfsonHistoryPrize is open to submissions from publishers from 9 December 2025 – 19 January 2026.
The Wolfson History Prize is the most valuable history writing prize in the UK.
Find out more. ⬇️
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/submissions/
The Wolfson History Prize is the most valuable history writing prize in the UK.
Find out more. ⬇️
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/submissions/