@kalramnath.bsky.social
writing and teaching histories of 19 and 20c South Asia and the Indian Ocean World
Congratulations Gautham!
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For legal historians: did you publish a book recently that won't be represented at the Detroit ASLH conference book sale in Nov.2025? You should bring a copy for this new initiative to showcase your work! Much needed as only a few publishers are represented at the book sale: aslh.net/new-works-in...
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The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun โ๏ธ
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Very excited that the Asian Legal History Association will be formally launched at 2 events in March 2026--at Chinese University of Hong Kong (March 17-18, 2026) + Oxford (March 23)! Here's the Call for Papers for "Legal History in Asia and Beyond" (due Oct31): www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...
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<3 Excited for your book @durba.bsky.social !
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Book cover of Boats in a Storm in blue, lavender and white with the outline of India's Madras High Court in the background.
Boats in a Storm gets an India edition with Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social!
Releasing on 18 August.
How a small island nation that produced virtually none of the emissions changing Earth's climate is struggling to move its people and villages uphill amidst USAID and other foreign assistance cutbacks: wapo.st/3JsEao4 [gift link]
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"Tamil asylum denial was not only a matter of domestic politics, but one that crucially entailed international and transnational dimensions."
Niro Kandasamy on the complex history and politics of asylum denial.
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My review of Vineeta Sinha's Temple Tracks: Labor, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia.
Absolutely brilliant on history & memory, ruination & revival, the role of labor, gender, kinship & religion, identities that travel, morph & unsettle across oceans.
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This is going to be a fantastic book.
30.07.2025 08:10 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Taking up the sorry task of trying to AI-proof the syllabus for my research seminar. Please share tips, advice, examples.
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Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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A generous review of Boats in a Storm for readers of Simplified Chinese:
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The picture shows the first page of the Postscript, accessible using the link in the post.
Our Special 20th Anniversary Issue ends with a Postscript written by Kalyani Ramnath, Editor-in-Chief of SLR in 2007. Ramnath reflects on SLRโs journey, particularly the initial years, placing the question of socio-legal in an institutional context. repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol20/is...
25.06.2025 05:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโm thrilled to finally share my article on citizenship, caste, and exit control at the time of the India-Pakistan partition out now on first view in Modern Asian Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians
23.06.2025 07:42 โ ๐ 45 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1A shoutout for Elizabeth Lhost's wonderful essay on the contributions and challenges of socio-legal studies x legal history @slr-nlsiu.bsky.social @lawandhistrev.bsky.social - #History #AcademicSky
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Today is World Refugee Day.
โ๐ From the archive, a podcast episode by Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social featuring Peter Gatrell, Pual Dudman @paulvdudman.bsky.social, Heather Faulkner and Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social, on creating Refugee Archives.
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#WorldRefugeeDay
This looks fantastic, with a great line-up of scholars including legal historians Elizabeth Lhost and Kalyani Ramnath (who was there in the early days)! Also includes Anup Surendranath & Maitreyi Misra on death penalty (India) and Maryam Khan on socio-legal studies in Pakistan. Congratulations, all!
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Table of Contents from Socio-Legal Review, Volume 20, Issue 2. The contents include: Editorial โ page vi Articles: Fingerprints and Fragments: Reflections on the Challenges and Contributions of Socio-Legal History by Elizabeth Lhost โ page 1 Cultivating Attentiveness to Law in India through Legal Anthropology by Deepa Das Acevedo & Jahnavi Chamarthi โ page 25 The Meaning and Challenges of an Interdisciplinary Sentencing Exercise: Reflections from a Death Penalty Mitigation Practice by Anup Surendranath and Maitreyi Misra โ page 52 Locating Socio-Legal Research in Pakistan: A Reflexive Approach by Maryam S Khan โ page 92 Socio-Legal Enquiry on a Global Scale: Legal Intermediation, the Geography of Extraction, and the (Re)Negotiation of Africaโs Relationship with the World Economy by Sara Dezalay โ page 120 Postscript by Kalyani Ramnath โ page 149
SLR's Special 20th Anniversary Issue is out now! Volume 20(2) reflects on two decades of socio-legal inquiry from India, South Asia, and beyondโthrough legal history, anthropology, mitigation practice, comparative method & institutional memory. Read here: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/
19.06.2025 08:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1@slr-nlsiu.bsky.social 20th #anniversary: I was delighted to write a reflective essay on early years of SLR at #NLSIU and interdisciplinary legal research and publishing in #India
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@slr-nlsiu.bsky.social 20th #anniversary: I was delighted to write a reflective essay on early years of SLR at #NLSIU and interdisciplinary legal research and publishing in #India
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@slr-nlsiu.bsky.social launched their 20th anniversary issue yesterday, featuring superstars Elizabeth Lhost, Maryam Khan, Anup Surendranath and Maitreyi Misra, and Sara Dezalay.
The 20th anniversary issue also includes an essay by Deepa Das Acevedo and Jahnavi Chamarthi.
Watch recording here -
Congratulations and celebrations to @slr-nlsiu.bsky.social and editors and authors past and present.
Please sign up below for the launch of the 20th anniversary issue 18 June at 3 PM with the stellar line up of authors!
Yes! Really looking forward.
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