@sepoy where in the city is this?

A folio from Akbar’s 16th-century Persian translation of the Harivamsa. Krishna lifting Mount Govardhan.

Join us online for Afterlives of the Babri Masjid: Thirty Years Later. Speakers include Irfan Habib, Arvind Rajagopal, Anand Patwardhan, @audreytruschke, @themodsisyphus, Thomas Blom Hansen, etc. for more information, please go to Columbia South Asia Center’s website.

It’s that time in the semester where we (I) need to be reminded that we are all doing the best we can. We all need a bit more grace.

Just got the jacket for "Scripts of Power", which will be published in late January 2023 by Permanent Black. So excited!

#histodons #southasia #culturalhistory #scripts #language #Marathi #westernIndia #southasianhistory #maharashtra

The Department of History, in collaboration with UIC's Middle East and Muslim Societies (MEMS) Cluster, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in late nineteenth or twentieth-century Middle Eastern history. https://uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/1279?c=uic

Dosto, you know what today is? The beginning of #Mahabharata days. Looking forward to be moving on to a new #epic in my course. Bring on #draupadi.

Excited for today’s class on #gender and #Nationalism in #india. #hindunationalism #columbia

@pashamkhan what was the first?!

This is LITERALLY how I roll. An ode to Murty Classicsl Library.

Well it’s that time of year again.

I am trying to understand how @google allowed a rogue employee resource group to bring an anti-black, anti-dalit, and anti-queer speaker like #rajivmaholtra but is not able to have a talk on caste equity. Google's bias is showing and it is absurd. https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-sets-rules-hq-guest-speakers-after-row-over-indian-historian-emails-2022-11-18/ #casteintech

Because this is the single greatest illustrated demonstration of #mughal #shade ever. Thanks to Yael Rice for finding me a great JPEG for my Mughal India class poster. #jahangir and his sweet sweet dreams.

So here I am on this toot toot hathi app trying to figure out where my #southasian #scholars at. Me: #hindi #earlymodern #modern #manuscripts #printculture #print #literature #ReligiousStudies #identity #SWANA #mena #arthistory #yogis #sufis #Sikhs #asceticism #hindutva #gender #manuscriptstudies #marginalia #intellectualhistory