@aditidixit.bsky.social
Postdoc at Wageningen University, Economic and Social History, PhD from Utrecht University, Industrialization, Divergence, Indian Ocean Trade, and Colonialism
NEW @empirepoduk.bsky.social DOUBLE BILL-
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Indian Painting for the East India Company
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Kwan Chin (Malaysian | b. 1946). Kampung Life (2012, batik painting).
06.02.2025 02:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What a book! A gripping road trip through Black Britain, a rich study of culture and resistance outside of the trodden London stories. Out in April, this is one to read by @lanre-bakare.bsky.social
05.02.2025 12:18 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Portrait of Martineau
Harriet Martineau (1802-76):
- Wrote “Illustrations of Political Economy” to help the public understand Adam Smith. Outsold Dickens
- Argued for married women’s property rights
- After visiting the US, she used economic analysis to argue that slavery was an illegitimate form of property
David Dabydeen's short interview of a woman believed to be the last surviving witness of indentured servitude in Guyana. Unfortunately, this clip doesn't provide her name.
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Gujarati Pulp Fiction selected and translated by Vishwambhari S. Parmar
Bar Dancer by Vibhavari Varma
Kaal Kundali (The Coils of Fate) by H N Golibar. Cover shows a skeletal figure stabbing a horoscope with a dagger
Padkaar by Kanu Bhagdev. Cover shows a woman's face in the shape of a gun
THE BLAFT ANTHOLOGY OF GUJARATI PULP FICTION includes English translations of:
Vibhavari Varma's feminist revenge fantasy BAR DANCER
H. N. Golibar's bloodbath horror thriller THE COILS OF FATE
Kanu Bhagdev's crime stories
Apocalyptic sci-fi by Viru Purohit
& MORE!
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Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! on the annual meeting of the AHA and its vote against scholasticide in Gaza. @srseikaly.bsky.social, Barbara Weinstein, and @quinnslobodian.com showing how we amplify our voices as historians on the most urgent issues. @weinstein www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/aha...
06.01.2025 15:07 — 👍 73 🔁 33 💬 5 📌 3if you’re like me and have had your mind, heart and soul torn to shreds by footage from Gaza in the past 14 months here’s a Parenti clip that I hope might help. “Pessimism of the mind, optimism of the will.”
19.12.2024 03:21 — 👍 272 🔁 55 💬 10 📌 1
The Dutch budget cuts to education will be disastrous. Unions are gauging how ready we are to strike. It's with pain in my heart, I haven't even given classes yet since I started at the UvA in August..
But yes, I'm ready to strike, and I expect a lot of colleagues with me. #DoeHetNiet #WOinActie
We're very excited to publish Emmet von Stackelberg's delightfully original new history of Eastman Kodak. Focused on the materialities, the article argues that Kodak's obsession with purity made it possible for cinema to become a mass medium ...
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Jews for a free Palestine have taken over the Canadian Parliament building. Can’t wait for Anthony Housefather’s reaction.
03.12.2024 19:18 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0"So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?" — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
03.12.2024 15:41 — 👍 64 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 1
This is the good stuff. www.newberry.org/calendar/eme...
02.12.2024 15:40 — 👍 93 🔁 49 💬 0 📌 2No flour, no bread, no pampers, no food, no electricity, no water, no houses, no clothes, no cures, no tikiats, no aid. Nothing.
Tell us how we live?
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01.12.2024 06:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For History Compass, I wrote about new directions in the study of the history of technology in modern South Asia. I explored the potential of these historiographic trends through poetic laments of an early 20th-century railway carpenter named ‘Abdul ‘Aziz in Lahore...
30.11.2024 12:37 — 👍 78 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 5
Cat with Flower Cactus
Dorothea Maetzel-Johansen, 1886-1930
A List of Things People Blamed on Short Skirts
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I've had some run-ins with Lavanya Vemsani on private listservs. She gets super mad if you call her Hindutva while doubling down on Hindutva ideas. Also, this book waves away Indo-European connections and was funded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of the Government of India.
24.11.2024 04:36 — 👍 20 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0Would like to be added as well
18.11.2024 14:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am a postdoc at Wageningen University and work on Indian Ocean trade. Could you please add me?
15.11.2024 12:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me please!
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