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  Devji’s Red Mosque

  04.17.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  The 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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  Decline Scenario

  02.27.08 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  In 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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  Free JSTOR

  02.15.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  A 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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  In Review: Academic Tools

  01.16.08 | Permalink | 17 Comments

  I 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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  AHA

  01.08.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  This 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!
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  Season’s Greetings

  12.20.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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  A Happy Eid (and xmas, hannukah, kwanzaa, festivus) to all CM readers - may your bakras look better than Fidel.