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Falak Sufi Memorial Prize
via BASAS:
I wanted to draw your attention to a new annual accademic prize that has been instituted for Humanities and Social Science students studying at a university in Pakistan.
The Falak Sufi Memorial Prize has been established to support innovative work on women and gender in South Asia by Pakistani undergraduate and graduate students. This prize [...] -
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Some Observations on Library for Indian Travelers
06.03.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsEdward Eastwick (1814–1883) joined the East India Company in 1836 as a cadet but was soon promoted because of his capacity for language acquisition. In 1845 the East India Company appointed him to the post of professor of Urdu at their officer-training school at Haileybury. He continued to serve the India Office in a number [...]
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univerCity, wizbango! tech
Surfing on Crowds
A week or so ago Stephen Mihm had an interesting article in Boston Globe, Everyone’s a historian now: How the Internet - and you - will make history deeper, richer, and more accurate. Mihm concentrated on the effect of crowd sourcing on history as a research/archival practice, but I have been thinking about the positive [...]
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univerCity
Spurned Lover
Via pdcs
What is it that must precede the conveying of history? Must there not be the declaration of a double passion, an eros for the past and an ardor for the others in whose name there is a felt urgency to speak? To convey that-which-was in the light of this passion is to become a [...] -
imperial watch, univerCity
Devji’s Red Mosque
04.17.08 | Permalink | 10 CommentsThe Winter 2008 issue of Public Culture covers “The Public Life of History” and has an intriguing piece by Dipesh Chakrabarty on the practice of history writing and the lessons from India. It is something that I will want to return, in the near future, for a thorough discussion. But, right now, I want to [...]
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univerCity
Decline Scenario
02.27.08 | Permalink | 18 CommentsIn a rather half-hearted piece for TNR, Imperial Illusions, Amartya Sen spends some time ruminating on the good/bad of British colonialism in India with an eye towards comparison with the American imperialism. He offers a sketch of the 2,000 year old pre-history of British rule in India as a “country” with “global influence”. Though, he [...]
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univerCity
Free JSTOR
02.15.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsA few weeks ago, danah boyd wrote her resolve to publish only in Open Access journals. I couldn’t agree more - being an ardent supporter of scholarship that is freely accessible. One of my biggest complaint about our academic world is about the inaccessibility of research to anyone without institutional affiliation or a hefty bank [...]
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univerCity
In Review: Academic Tools
01.16.08 | Permalink | 17 CommentsI haven’t really rolled the mental rolodex over into 2008. Something scares me about that number. It portends change, maybe dislocation, perhaps an end to the way things were. I embrace change with the same fatalism as when a human, lacking the natural means to flight, jumps out of a plane strapped to a parachute. [...]
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univerCity
AHA
01.08.08 | Permalink | 6 CommentsThis past weekend, I was on a panel at the annual historian’s shindig, the AHA: Contested Pasts and Constructed Presents: Memory in the Local. It was the last panel on Sunday afternoon - colloquially termed the “Luggage Panel”. And yet, it still managed to be a good one - with up to 6 attendees!
Dresner’s [...] -
holydays, portraits
Season’s Greetings
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A Happy Eid (and xmas, hannukah, kwanzaa, festivus) to all CM readers - may your bakras look better than Fidel. -
portraits, purple people
A-jad Asleep
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imperial watch, portraits
The Fur of a Lion
A manly public image can take a lot of work. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s image is managed on many levels, including media depiction of his relationships with household pets. It has been widely reported that Putin is frequently photographed with an imposing black lab named Koni, whom he even invites to summits with [...]
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univerCity
Teach In at Chicago
11.19.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsOn Friday, we organized a Teach-In on Pakistan at the University of Chicago, The Past and Future Emergencies in the State of Pakistan“. Alongside me were Atiya Khan, Aqil Shah, and Naim Sahib speaking on various historical and political aspects of this here crisis.
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univerCity
Examining Iqbal
Naim Sahib forwarded a correspondence in which he answers a question about the Urdu poet and intellectual Iqbal (1877-1938). I reproduce it below without his consent. He can yell at me later:
Q: I have a question for you. Attached is (supposedly) Iqbal’s Tarana-e-Hindi (The Song of India) written out in his own hand. What [...]
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