How does our understanding of the century – and its impact on the historical imagination of Southasia as a region – change when it is narrated through the emergence of regional film industries, economic ideologies, or labour migration? Amanda Lanzillo: himalmag.com/politics/south…

I’m hiring for an in-person 6-month temporary assistant position to support the South Asia collection at Princeton. The candidate must read Urdu and will be working with me on a Pakistani film project and on our ephemera in Perso-Arabic scripts. Please contact me for details!

Friends, unfortunately it seems some of your emails are not finding me at all! Please don’t use my Brunel address. The bounce-back message that was meant to be there doesn’t work 😩, but I no longer have any access to the account. If you need my new email address, please DM.

While researching, I observed that almost every Indian Muslim I spoke to had experienced discrimination while trying to find a home My piece for Vittles discusses the surveillance apparatus of “vegetarianism” that is ever present in Indian cities vittlesmagazine.com/p/vegetarians-…

I'm finally writing about this, and seeking advertisements for either Meerut scissors or Aligarhi locks in any regional languages (though I already have many in Urdu and English). Anyone come across ads for either of these goods in S. Asian periodicals?

Earlier this year, an old Persian song went viral after appearing in Bollywood film "Animal." Known as Jamal Kudu, the original lyrics actually reference an Afro-Iranian man fleeing enslavement. How did Jamal Kudu go viral? Read on for the answer: ajammc.com/2024/07/20/jam…

a "thought-provoking examination of the intersection between religion, technology, and labor in colonial India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries": Ghulam Rabani on Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India by Amanda Lanzillo

My Latest : In which I write about the re-publication of #NiraliUrdu, the first ever book in #Karkhandari. But it is not just a re-publication of what was originally published in 1932 or reprinted in 2017 (in Pakistan),for there are useful additions to it. thewire.in/books/nirali-u…

Barbican in fine, sunny form today.

Apply now for a 2025 ACLS Fellowship, supporting scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences! Awards of $30-60k + additional funding for independent scholars, adjunct faculty & faculty in teaching-intensive roles. Deadline Sept. 25, 9PM EDT bit.ly/3Q0Oi5I

‘Jaan-e-Mumbai’: The slim Persian book that came to be the first urban biography of the city The book from 1817 remains a prototype for the many biographies of the city that continue to be written 200 years on, writes Murali Ranganathan scroll.in/article/107151… via Scroll.in

"Poets, scholars, archivists and librarians, teenagers and journalists... have been our exhausted lodestars, offering correctives to a media engine that no longer bothers accounting for them, let alone tell their stories. Perhaps that is why many have been killed."

Anybody know if Abhilekh Patal (Indian National Archives online search & digitised collections) is down for everyone? No longer accessible from abroad? Or just personally has it out for me right now?

Friends who will be in Madison this Oct.-Nov. for the annual conference, consider attending our day-long symposium on craft, communities, and material cultures between South and Central Asia on Wednesday October 30. Contact me or Pranav Prakash for additional details & schedule

A quick late summer family holiday in Scotland.

"The question ‘What is the point of doing all of this now?’ dominates my thoughts, profoundly impacting my writing process, readings, and my free time." Read shahdab perumal's insightful reflection on ethnography in the shadow of genocide in Palestine: ethnomarginalia.com/2024/08/28/bea…

to be quite honest if I see a book or paper which cites AI generated text, I will not be reading it any more, and my opinion of the author/authors and editors will be mud. There is no reason for us to aid in the ongoing enshittification of everything.

Today is pub day in India for Our City that Year! Read an excerpt in Scroll.in here: scroll.in/article/107246…

Sharing narratives about food and belonging for a writing workshop, Afghans living in Delhi preserve and construct ideas of home – both the remembered home lost to war in Afghanistan, and the home of refuge they are building in India taran khan: himalmag.com/culture/afghan…