Yesterday at the Oriental Museum we spent the day deep cleaning our beautiful Chinese bed.
Rebecca, a conservation student, Ishita a placement student and FOH staff, James & Tracy, worked with Kel and Carolyn to clean the bed, dusting and hoovering. Here they are hard at work.

Last month we hosted the amazing Siobhan Lambert-Hurley @sheffielduni.bsky.social for the @durhamhistory.bsky.social Seminar. She spoke on royal women's relationship to food & shaping of a discourse on ideal diets in princely India, with great insights on doing Gender & Food Histories in South Asia.

Thanks for the tag @jhowesuk.bsky.social !

Thank you to Sakshi Wadhva at The Daak Books for this detailed and considered review of Music in Colonial Punjab!
Always inspired to read the future directions the research in this book can take!
thedaak.in/2025/03/29/m...

Such a joy to see our book Punjab Sounds featured in the Leverhulme funding bulletin.

Massive gratitude to Prof Ira Bhaskar for the Foreword and Prof Virinder Singh Kalra for the Afterword.

Salma Siddique, Aditi Deo, Omar Kasmani, Bindu EM, Yogesh Snehi, Gwen Kirk, Navkiran Natt, Naresh Kumar, Zafar Iqbal, David Kerr, Kavita Bhanot, Taimoor Shahid, Thomas Hodgson, Ravikant, Prashastika Sharma, & Ronit Ghosh. You can order a copy here: www.routledge.com/Punjab-Sound...

We wish to acknowledge a range of speakers and discussants at the fascinating and really engaging conversations at the 2021 colloquium: including, among others, Prof. Anjali Roy , Prof. Laura Leante, Prof. Anshu Malhotra, Prof. @katherineschof8.bsky.social Prof Rajinder Dudrah, Michael Nijhawan 5/🧵

+Kirit James Singh on the role of mediation in shabad kirtan; this is truly an exceptional lineup. With thanks to Astha Mehrotra for her support, the Leverhulme Trust for making this possible in the first place, & Siobhan Lambert-Hurley at Sheffield for being the best mentor ever! 4/🧵

Ali Shair on Punjabi sounds in Pakistani classical music; Sakoon Singh on the sounds of the ghara & the charkha; Shikha Jhingan on Punjabi soundscapes in Bollywood;Tom Graves on “Love From 🇮🇳/ 🇵🇰” comments on YouTube; Júlia Szivák on nostalgia +authenticity in British Asian Punjabi music, 3/🧵

It features an array of essays from authors who truly represent Punjab across borders. Gibb Schreffler on Dhol Chaal; Ranbir Johal & Kiran Sunar on giddha performance and “trinjan audiotopias”; Sumera Saleem on women’s sithniyan; Radhika Kumar on Chamar pop; 2/🧵

This labour of love, begun just before the pandemic, & brought to life in 2021, at a fantastic online colloquium, is finally published! It opens with an Introduction on “regioning sound” co-authored with my co-editor, Dr Vebhuti Duggal: one of the sharpest thinkers today on sound in South Asia. 1/🧵

Thank you so much, Christina! 🙏

So thrilled that this volume is finally out, something to entice those interested in the intersections of the environment history and ecology with music and the performing arts 🌴 🌊 🎶 🎸 🎭
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Beyond honoured to have my book shortlisted, and for it to now receive "Special Mention" alongside the brilliant A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar by Ashok Gopal, winner of the 2024 Karwaan Book Award. @karwaanheritage.bsky.social 🙏 ! Announcement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S51...

:D Hello!!

Thank you so much @katherineschof8.bsky.social ! So happy this is finally published :) @priyankabasu.bsky.social

Thank you, Jennifer! :)

Quite incredibly, *Music in Colonial Punjab* has made the Shortlist for the Karwaan Book Award 2024! Excited /honoured/a bit numb to be in such exalted company. Karwaan, 🙏 for your brilliant work platforming historical research to a wider public. youtu.be/gxD0QcUmrrk?...
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Not one but *two* new co-edited volumes on different aspects of musical culture in South Asia have just been published by our brilliant colleague Radha Kapuria (@radhakapuria.bsky.social) – congratulations Radha!

Wonderful news that Radha Kapuria's book *Music in Colonial Punjab* has been longilisted for the Karwaan Book Award
(@karwaanheritage.bsky.social), recognising outstanding non-fiction works on the history of the Indian subcontinent 🎉 @radhakapuria.bsky.social 🎉

Would you like to work with the amazing @christinajriggs.bsky.social and The Story, Durham to investigate "Images and Empire in British Military Collections: The Photographic Archive of the Durham Light Infantry (DLI)"? Click this link to find out more.
▶️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ463/p...