Dr. Ananya Chakravarti
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Dr. Ananya Chakravarti
@ananyachakravarti.bsky.social
Associate professor of history, Georgetown University. www.ananyachakravarti.com
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As a historian, here's my attempt to think through this. (As an aside, I hope to use this blog more regularly to think through things at greater length than sleeting allows, without quite the anxiety around footnotes my academic work usually involves.)
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The Crisis of the Self(ie)
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As a historian of empire and an Indian, I've been thinking through these two images all week. Braverman's concentration camp selfie expresses the symbolic order of Euro-American self and empire, the same one expressed by her USian imitators. Mamdani harkens instead to anti-colonial solidarity 1/
July 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Apropos of my thread on language here's a translation. My husband doesn't speak Bengali and from the beginning of our relationship one of the ways he has gotten to know me is through translations I write for fun. This one by Buddhodeb Bose was for one of our anniversaries. "The morning in Chilka" 1/
May 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I've been thinking about what language after colonialism becomes. As a South Asian of the English-speaking class (for English in India is a class), there was always something faintly shameful about my personal habitation of language. My English, as befitting my class, was cultivated with care. 1/
May 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
About to go into my first PhD defense in the history department and why do I feel like I'm the one about to be examined? I've hooded one doctoral student in Spanish and Portuguese before so it's not even my first defense! Tbf I still have anxiety dreams about exams before the first week of class 🗃️
May 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Call for papers!

The Southwest Seminar on Colonial Latin America invites proposals for 2025 meeting hosted at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island on November 13 and 14, 2025.

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May 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The recording of my very first in-person book tour event for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social, at @politicsprose.bsky.social in Washington, DC, is online:

💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #politics #HAMH

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Surekha Davies — Humans: A Monstrous History
YouTube video by Politics and Prose
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May 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Distracting myself with reconstructing lost archives, as my country goes to war. Here's a glimpse of the Dattatreya cult in pre-colonial Goa, and the fascination that missionaries had with its prescriptions. In the 1560s, a convert brahmin called Manuel de Oliveira looted a library of texts 1/
May 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Hello! I'm using this account to share my work, as I finish my second book, The Konkan: Mobility, Identity and History on an Indian Ocean coast. In that spirit, here's my latest adventures in teaching Indian Ocean at Georgetown. 🗃️#indiasky #earlymodern www.qatar.georgetown.edu/students-bri...
Students Bridge Campuses, Cultures, and Communities with Hands-On Learning in India – Georgetown University in Qatar
Ten Georgetown University students from campuses in the United States and Qatar recently came together in India for an immersive research experience as part of the interdisciplinary course Indian Ocea...
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May 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM