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Radha Kumar

@mailradhakumar

historian of South Asia, police, Tamil worlds.

library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49454
Joined May 2017
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Rohit@itihaasnaama21 Mar 2025
Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History by @OrnitShani and @itihaasnaama is out later this year with @CambridgeUP (cover below) and @PenguinIndia cambridge.org/core/books/ass…
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AIIS@AIISIndia19 Mar 2025
📢 #AIIS Dissertation to Book Workshop Applications are now open! Part of the Annual Conference on South Asia at UW Madison, this workshop helps recent PhDs transform their dissertations into books. Workshop: October 21-22, 2025 Deadline: July 15, 2025 indiastudies.org/book-prize/…
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Now in HINDI, BANGLA, and TAMIL: In "The Tamil Voter: Savvy or Starstruck?" @mailradhakumar (@SyracuseU) challenges the trope that cinema paves an assured path to electoral success in Tamil Nadu politics. casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/trans…
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In "The Tamil Voter: Savvy or Starstruck?" @mailradhakumar (@SyracuseU) challenges the trope that cinema paves an assured path to electoral success in Tamil Nadu politics. casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/radha…
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1/6. Tata Institute of Social Sciences suspension of Dalit scholar P. S. Ramadas for alleged ‘anti-national’ activity is appalling. This must mark the lowest point TISS has seen in its distinguished history in both leadership and action.#TISS #DALIT
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Today, we are releasing a subset of the findings from the (unofficial) 2024 U-M Community Survey on Anti-Palestinian Bias and Islamophobia. Full report here: tinyurl.com/5n89yrwm A🧵on the survey, some highlights, and what the findings mean 1/n

UM_SurveyReport_2024.pdf

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I have some bad news - buried in the appropriations bill being voted on this week is a terrible new gun policy rider that significantly rolls back the firearms background check system. 1/ You need to know about this - it’s bad enough that I will vote against the entire bill.
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The women making iPhones in India live in hostels that don't allow them to venture out during the week for anything other than the commute to the factory Read @Johanna_Deeksha's eye-opening report scroll.in/article/1064027/in…
India’s iPhone factory is keeping women workers isolated

India’s iPhone factory is keeping women workers isolated

Women workers are housed in hostels that restrict their movement. This helps keep a lid on their working conditions, activists say.

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Posted Today: Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History | Columbia University Department of History dlvr.it/Sw3fpv
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Rohit@itihaasnaama21 Sep 2023
Open rank search at History of Art at Yale on South Asian art and architecture h-net.org/jobs/job_display.p…
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Please reach out if you wish to access the collection of Professor Karen Leonard ( Professor Emerita, University of California Irvine) I post this message on her behalf.
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I’m thrilled to be guest editing a thematic dossier on Indian Ocean histories to be published in 2025. Please share the call for papers widely and consider contributing! Thanks @medievalqabq and @zaydeantrim for this exciting opportunity!
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We are pleased to announce a thematic dossier on Indian Ocean histories guest edited by Jyoti Balachandran, to be published in 2025. To that end, we are soliciting original research articles that employ the Indian Ocean as their analytical framework.
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Hearing shocking stories from friends in Gurugram about the aftermath of the violence: charred streets, homes abandoned by Muslims. That this is happening in a tech hub that is seen as the symbol of tomorrow's India bodes very ill for the future. reuters.com/world/india/indi…
Indian business hub Gurugram remains tense after Hindu-Muslim clashes

Indian business hub Gurugram remains tense after Hindu-Muslim clashes

Traffic was lighter than usual on Wednesday and some streets deserted in the Gurugram business hub south of the Indian capital New Delhi as authorities said the death toll from two days of Hindu-Mu...

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Irfan@irfaniyat29 Jul 2023
Harindranath Chattopadhyay (1898 – 1990) was a poet, dramatist, actor, painter musician and a member of the 1st Lok Sabha. He used his Curd Seller verses as a weapon to hit out at the then Government’s policies and follies. After the Railway Budget speech, he rose and said, 🧵+
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Privileged to have been the reviewer of this compelling work @FrontImmunol @FrontiersIn. Congrats @Rukmini_Vantage & the team at Merck & Co. @Merck on their insightful publication. frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Madras HC appoints retired judge to probe Vengavayal caste crime thenewsminute.com/article/ma…
Madras HC appoints retired judge to probe Vengavayal caste crime

Madras HC appoints retired judge to probe Vengavayal caste crime

Retired judge M Sathyanarayanan will be conducting a probe into the incident of contaminating tank potable water with human excreta in Vengavayal village of Pud

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sharath rao@sharathrao16 Apr 2023
Replying to @UnitedAirlines
@UnitedAirlines we have a flight booking for Auckland to sfo. Your systems can't detect the confirmation code. The flight doesn't exist for today. we are at Auckland airport. There is nobody from united airlines here. We are on hold with united for an hour.
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Join us on Thursday Apr 6, 3:30 pm EDT, for a talk by @ahona_panda on “Popular Sovereignty and the Bengali Language Movement in East Pakistan.” Registration details in comments.
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sarah besky@SarahBesky14 Mar 2023
I'm hiring a postdoc in Agrarian Studies, Climate Change, and the Future of Work to be based @cornellilr . DUE MARCH 31. No LoRs up front. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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