itβs sooo good
15.12.2025 22:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Cover of Wacana journal, vol. 26.3 (2025), with illustrated manuscript page showing a battle scene.
Important group of new studies on the "Kawi culture" that grew out of the use of the Old Javanese in the 8th-15th c. as a cosmopolitan vernacular by speakers of various languages, esp. in Java & Bali. Lots of exciting new work in this field. Wacana 26(3), free download: scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/
25.11.2025 00:38 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1
archaeology in the age of colonialism
12.07.2025 10:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
One monkβs lonely battle against Sinhala-Buddhist extremism in Sri Lanka
One monkβs battle against extremist Buddhism in Sri Lanka
Galkande Dhammananda is a rarity in Sri Lanka: a monk speaking out against Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism and looking to build bridges after civil war. Jeevan Ravindran writes buff.ly/eMtdqa7
16.05.2025 14:31 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Ons Jabeur says sheβs been called βa terroristβ for trying to help starving people in Gaza:
"I've been called a terrorist so many times. I don't know how that's even related. I'm trying to help people, and especially kids, who are starving."
Source:
www.wtatennis.com/news/4260883....
08.05.2025 17:58 β π 87 π 19 π¬ 0 π 9
Ranajit Guha on a truly Indian history writing as expropriation of the expropriators
02.05.2025 19:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In Space, No One Can Hear You Girlboss
Strapped in next to Gayle King and an all-women crew aboard Jeff Bezosβ rocket, the pop star set a record for the most feminist publicity stunt in history as she smashed through the glass ceiling of E...
A pop star floating in zero gravity on a mission funded by Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in history, while the rest of us guess at what economic downturn or fascist political maneuver will strike nextβ¦is exactly how I saw this year unfurling
15.04.2025 17:54 β π 239 π 43 π¬ 3 π 24
Looking forward to my talk this Tuesday at Notre Dame
01.02.2025 18:50 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
at this point this is a Kosambi fan account
19.01.2025 18:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
kosambi did not mince words
06.01.2025 15:04 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF with Babasaheb Mech Head
Aaand the Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF is off to print.
Really cut it close here -- our 1st launch event is Dec 21 at Champaca Bookstore in Bangalore! π
We're hoping to do events in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, London, & maybe Hyderabad & NYC too... watch this channel!
www.blaft.com/products/the...
02.12.2024 20:29 β π 67 π 34 π¬ 5 π 7
South Asian book specialist based in London. Fine art and handmade fair-trade craft products from across the sub-continent. Est. 1968.
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Journal of Middle East Medievalists (@mideastmedieval.bsky.social), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal on the medieval Middle East. Edited by Zayde Antrim (zaydeantrim.bsky.social) & Alison Vacca (@medievalqabq.bsky.social)
Teacher-scholar at the intersection of World History, Jewish Studies, and Islamic Civilizations Studies. New book in 2026: https://bit.ly/PerrySlavery. Co-editor: The Cambridge World History of Slavery vol. 2: https://bit.ly/CWHS2
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Historian-in-public with a focus on African anti-colonialism and the global media. Editorial fellow at @historyworkshop.org.uk, freelance everywhere else!
Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
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Director, South Asia Center University of Pennsylvania, anthropologist
Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
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News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (Basic Books, 2026) and Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing (@ucpress.bsky.socialβ¬, 2019)
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South Asian Studies
Syracuse University
historian, translator, author deeply committed to India's rich cultural heritage and diverse civilizational legacy. Author of the Delhi trilogy and In Search of the Divine: Living Histories of Sufism in India, A Firestorm in Paradise
Engineer. SFF Writer. Triple Nebula Award winner. Viα»t (Kinh)/French. Asian auntie. Weird. She/They. Queer. π³οΈβπ Loves tea. Profile:
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Bahari Research Fellow @ AMES, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iranian Studies, history, philology, late antique Zoroastrianism; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. My views.
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