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Associate Prof. @durham_history formerly @sheffielduni & @KingsCollegeLon 📚📕 Music in Colonial Punjab, 2023 • Punjab Sounds, 2024 • Performing ‘Nature’, 2025
Leeds, England
Joined August 2017
Thank you so much 🙏🏽 Beyond honoured to have my book shortlisted, and to now receive a Special Mention alongside the brilliant A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar by Ashok Gopal, winner of the 2024 Karwaan Book Award.
Special Mention: the Karwaan Book Award 2024 Congratulations to Radha Kapuria for Music in Colonial Punjab published by Oxford University Press ! An exploration of Punjab’s rich musical heritage, from courtesans to classical traditions, and its evolution through colonial times.
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The visceral hostility of the NDA government to scholars and scholarship is something to behold. A government ideologically committed to Hindi has banned Francesca Orsini. You can't make this up.
Francesca Orsini's scholarship has greatly enriched Hindi literary studies and history of the book in India. She is a renowned scholar published worldwide in English and in Hindi. She has just been denied entry into India, with no reason given.
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Wishing a very happy Diwali to all my friends celebrating around the world. May light triumph over darkness. https://t.co/UfEahgUMPS
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🌙 What did the night look like in Mughal India? Next week in Durham! Dr Amrita C. explores “Light and Nocturnal-time: Materiality of Early Modern Nights in Mughal South Asia” 🗓️ 24 Oct | 🕓 4:30 PM | 📍ER 247, Elvet Riverside II @durham_history @AmritaChattopa3 @NESouthAsia
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Thrilled to start the day with exciting news — my paper on translation and political autobiography is out now! It is part of the new volume *Life Writing and Translation* edited by Mukul.
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NEW Episode: A detailed conversation with brilliant scholars on Dhadak 2, on Bollywood’s history of depicting caste, on Tamil cinema’s politics of resistance, and on the meaning of love in India. Live on all audio platforms, now on Substack too. Tune in!
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Asked to prove citizenship by Pune police, mob says Kargil veteran's family. A Kargil war veteran's family in Pune has alleged they were forced to prove their Indian citizenship after a group of 30 to 40 men accompanied by police stormed their home. The family of Hakimuddin
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Umar Khalid reflecting on nearly 5 years in jail, on how it is something akin to a space between life and death, something like a graveyard of the living... His friends Priya Dharshini, Aseem Sundan and Yashi Verma read out his notes from jail that he scrolled in captivity...
Umar Khalid has been in jail since 14 September 2020. He has not faced trial. He has been denied bail, again and again. In this video, Umar’s friends read out excerpts from a piece he wrote from inside Tihar Jail for The Quint. From referencing Dostoyevsky’s The House of the Dead
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Cover reveal of my memoir, Nautch Boy. Pix is me channeling 80s Salma Agha tawaif vibes. Allah jaane kaun banega iss Salma ka Balma! Mother raised me in a kotha, where dreams dance to die. I went from a dancing boy to a writer. Have a ❤️ Pre-Order now. https://t.co/4AImllA0US
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Fri 25 July / Leeds https://t.co/3rQlRwwbhe
📢 Event Alert! Meet the "Buffalo Intellectual"! 🐃 The Dr. Ambedkar Society at the University of Leeds is thrilled to welcome Professor Ravikant Kisana , Assistant Dean & Associate Professor at Woxsen University. Known widely as the "Buffalo Intellectual", Professor Kisana is
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Peace to the great C.M. Naim (1936 – 2025). When I started studying Urdu I started reading everything he ever wrote, and haven't stopped. Now, as ever, I recommend you read his moving account of his trip to Palestine in 1989
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Grateful for this generous review of Music in Colonial Punjab in the latest issue of the Journal of Punjab Studies by Prof Anne Murphy.
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Here, Zohran Mamdani reads Umar Khalid's Notes from Jail in New York, ahead of Modi's arrival in 2023. Mamdani is a man of guts, character, and integrity. I have to admit, I like him so much more now.
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All mamas/aunties of the global south (and the European south) get this:
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Hi everyone. I have been offered admissions to two Master's programs at UEA, and Goldsmiths. Unfortunately, I haven't received any funding from either and am now struggling to secure funds. Please read my story, amplify and support. https://t.co/8Kj0eLi7Hx
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Hello, my name is Tabish Rafiq Mir, and I’m a self-taught writer from downtown Srinagar, Kashmir - a place that has shaped my voice in ways both beautiful and brutal
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Israel kills 51 people waiting for flour Read this again and again
Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians waiting for flour at Gaza aid site, witnesses and rescuers say
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the eminent ghazal-gayak, the chanteuse of Jammu & Kashmir, Malika Pukhraj (1912-2004) at All India Radio (AIR) in early 1940s
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He is highly educated -- IIT Mumbai, M.A. from JNU then PhD from JNU. He had a fantastic highly paid job in Denmark, then in Bengaluru but now... he is in jail. Why? -- Just because he is a Muslim. That is where India has reached. Hate spread in full throttle against own
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This is Tehran, during attacks A musician playing the violin in the street for his neighbours so they don't hear the explosions It's so cinematic.. soulful and so Iranian https://t.co/GSeAqfAm9P
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