Dinyar Patel

Taking place this Saturday! Murali Ranganathan, Sumathi Ramaswamy, and I will be in conversation about Bombay during the Civil Disobedience Movement -- specifically, an incredible volume of photography which we have written about. CSMVS, 11 Oct, 5:30pm.

I'll be giving a talk this Saturday on three Indians in the age of global liberalism: Rammohan Roy, Dwarkanath Tagore, and Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy. How did their global links help shape Indian critiques of colonialism? khakitours.com/experiences/...

Job alert: IIHS University in Bangalore is hiring! www.iihs.ac.in/careers/

Happening this evening!

Brougham was also a supporter of Indian reform, and a well-respected figure in India, associated with Indian liberals' hopes for changes in the fundamental structure of Company rule.

Today is Dadabhai Naoroji's 200th birth annniversary. I write in @scroll.in about the divergence between, on the one hand, the early Indian nationalist vision for mass education and, on the other hand, independent India's woeful record on mass education. scroll.in/article/1086...

Looks like you're finding some really interesting stuff!

Our latest Past Imperfect podcast, with Srinath Raghavan, looks at Indira Gandhi's rule: was she populist, authoritarian, socialist -- or perhaps Caesarist? scroll.in/article/1085...

I'll be delivering a talk this Thursday on "Dadabhai Naoroji at 200," marking the two-hundredth birth anniversary of one of the world's pioneering anticolonial figures. 14 August, 6pm, CSMVS Museum, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai. See images for details.

How did Bombay experience the Uprising or Mutiny of 1857? Find out in my latest piece in @scroll.in, where I describe how fear and panic shaped the British response in the city: scroll.in/article/1084...

‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’ by Manu S. Pillai review

My review of Manu S. Pillai's Gods, Guns, and Missionaries is now out in @historytoday.com: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live!

Visit southasianbritain.org

@qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

Young Bengal was infamous for hard drinking and a propensity to fling beefsteaks into the houses of orthodox Brahmins. Rosinka Chaudhuri scratches beyond this surface, however, to discover their remarkable politics and principles. Listen here: scroll.in/article/1084...

Thanks to @scroll.in for carrying!

What was Young Bengal and why was it so controversial? Find out more in our newest Past Imperfect podcast with Rosinka Chaudhuri, author of India's First Radicals, the most comprehensive treatment of a generation which shaped modern India: scroll.in/article/1084...

India’s Visionary Engineer The career of M. Visvesvaraya, arch-technocrat and statesman, throws much light on how India embraced the idea of modernisation through industrialisation.

The career of M. Visvesvaraya, arch-technocrat and statesman, throws much light on how India embraced the idea of modernisation through industrialisation. Aashique Iqbal reviews Aparajith Ramnath's book
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...

Dadabhai Naoroji started a newspaper to push for reform in Bombay. It was called Truth Teller Dadabhai Naoroji was part of the 'Young Bombay' reformist clique group, which had progressive views on women’s education and rationalisation of religious practices.

I speak to ThePrint on Dadabhai Naoroji's career as a journalist, specifically with Rast Goftar, on his death anniversary. theprint.in/theprint-pro...

For historian Jim Masselos (1940-2025), Mumbai was a city that was both his archive and his muse Masselos wrote about the world of the urban mohalla, crowds and popular culture, and the changing rhythms of everyday life in the city.

Prashant Kidambi writes about Jim Masselos, the historian who spent six decades detailing so many aspects of Bombay's history, who passed away this week: scroll.in/article/1083...

YouTube video by Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest ECHOES OF EMPIRE | Jane Ohlmeyer, William Dalrymple, Dinyar Patel

Last November, I moderated a discussion with @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social on Ireland, India, and the British Empire at Literature Live! in Mumbai. If you missed the session, you can now see it online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK8N...

Our latest episode of Past Imperfect, a podcast on global and Indian history, features Manu S. Pillai. We talk about the genesis of modern Hindu identity over the past 400 years--and the long roots of Hindu nationalism. scroll.in/article/1083...