#Colonial

The Parallel Campaign

thellcampaign

With Navroze just been, we've been thinking about the fascinating history of the Parsi community, which is - in the increasingly mainstream insistence on a grand unifying narrative of India's

Indian Alliance Paris

paris_alliance

[THREAD] 1/nThe Hindu Swayamsevak Sangha (HSS) is the international wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha (RSS), the modern proponent of the nativist and colonial Hinduism project. Want to know more?

Dr Donna Yates

DrDonnaYates

I'm working on the provenance narratives in very recent sales of Polynesian items right now. Gone are (most) references to "primitivising" assertions (i.e. the headhunting and cannibalism, but I am

Sheshapatangi1 ಪ್ರಭಾ ಮಗ ಈ ಅಲೆಮಾರಿ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರಿ

sheshapatangi1

The self-styled social justice intellectuals and parties do not want an India without castes, they want castes without Dharma. This may be profitable to some in the short run but

'Hold The Line' Digital Krakens!

peatapann

Heinrich Mueller, the former head of the Gestapo, told his CIA Interrogator that the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, the most devastating plague in human history, was man-made.The "Spanish Flu" was

Maximillian Mørch

max_morch

1/n At least 426 people have been arrested since the coup on 1st Feb, but what are conditions likely to be for those detained? A thread on political prisoners, prisons,

Batho Motlhake

BathoMotlhake

HISTORY OF LAND IN BWBefore BW became a Protectorate in 1885, we just had settlements based on territories of tribes. As we know, that was the when tribes constantly fought

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

“The key to understanding the contrasts between the slave system of the United States and that of the Caribbean and Latin America… probably lies in variants in the emphasis upon

Rebecca Hamlin

hamlinr1

I just finished final edits on my book “Crossing” on the migrant/refugee binary (out from @stanfordpress this winter), so for this #WorldRefugeeDay I thought I’d share the recent works

Jacqueline (Jacqui) Mckenzie

JacquiMckenzie6

Thread: News that the #Jamaica50 flight left carrying the grand & great grandchildren of the #Windrush generation is shocking. Despite much success in getting stays in individual cases, a JR

Christopher Curtis

titocurtis

1. Yesterday, I took @JFLisee to task for the Télé-Québec video in an editorial. I don’t want to relitigate it. I found the way he went about criticizing the video

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

“The Dred Scott case, also known as Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott. The case persisted through several

Fuzzy #EndSARS

coolieduppy

A tracing of Jamaica’s Islamic HeritageI want to start off by saying congratulations to Sameerah Dyer and Salama Abdul-Majeed for their recent success in their Principles of Business CSEC exams!

Jason Hickel

jasonhickel

Last year I wrote an open letter to Steven Pinker, questioning his triumphalist narrative about global poverty reduction. I never received an answer. But I've worked on this issue a

Holger Nehring

Holger_Nehring

Just finished Perry Anderson's 'Ever Closer Union?' in the @LRB. This is much more specific on policy processes (as opposed to ideologies) than the first part a couple of weeks

Rueeta Athalye

rueeta

Today is Doctor's Day in India. On this occasion sharing a thread about some exemplary female doctors. @DrSameerKalani @docbhooshan @PavanSonar @milantheshrink @kausmazum @DrHarish139 @DrUdgeeth @DrMuktesh @ompsychiatrist @drdayal Eliza

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