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Nayanika Mathur

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3 years

If you are finding Indian Twitter scary right now then let me tell you the reality on the ground is far worse

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Instead of wasting time on an overwritten whataboutism on words, language, rhetoric by a once-admired novelist read this short and sharp essay by Arundhati Roy. Grateful for her moral clarity in these times.

Arundhati Roy on Gaza: N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ Again

The millions of protestors on the streets of Europe and the US are the hope for the future of the world..

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Last time I felt so hopeful for India was during the CAA-NRC protests over the winter of 2019-20

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2 years

This WhatsApp forward resonates for more reasons than one.

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4 years

Things are so bad that even Hauz Khas is out on the streets marching to cries of Inquilab Zindabad. Never seen such diverse parts of Delhi - from #ShaheenBagh to #HauzKhas - participate in opposing the very same thing. #IndiaAgainstCAA_NPR_NRC #CAAWapasLo

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Less exit polls, more ethnography

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Now that I have managed to explain what this means to my family, sharing some professional, personal - and political - news here. Way too many people to thank: teachers, referees, little sis, friends, colleagues, students. Promise to try to pay it forward

Nayanika Mathur promoted to ‘Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies’ in Oxford Univers...

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With deep regret I have resigned as External Examiner for the excellent MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology @ucl in solidarity with @ucu and in protest against the decimation of our pensions, casualisation of academic labour, pay gaps & unsustainable workloads. #FourFights

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4 years

My take on precisely why the National Register of Citizens is such a monstrous idea, which - coupled with the #CAA - will divide and devour India like no previous bureaucratic measure ever has. #NRC

The NRC is a bureaucratic paper-monster that will devour and divide India

The processes through which the NRC would be implemented will greatly exacerbate the violence of paperwork that lies at the heart of the Indian state.

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"I feel we are entering a long and dark tunnel" @_YogendraYadav on the fear of "electoral authoritarianism" in India or "a regime where elections take place at the appointed hour but everything other than elections that a democracy needs does not exist" 💔

BJP poll campaign was a perfect ambush: Yogendra Yadav

Following Pulwama, what Narendra Modi’s team designed was a classic dodge, distract, derail scheme, says Yogendra Yadav

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4 years

Does a book really exist till the cover is finalised? This beastly tale of 'Crooked Cats' and the Anthropocene is out in early 2021 @UChicagoPress

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2 years

My edited book with @rkadelhi that studies #NewIndia through an exploration of the many types of people that constitute it is out soon with @PenguinIndia . Long in the making, this is a collective effort to situate the defining politics of #IndiaAt75

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Hugely privileged to be delivering the Malinowski memorial lecture next month on beasts of all stripes in the Indian Himalaya, the ethnographic method, and what an anthropology for the Anthropocene could become. Thanks @LSEAnthropology for the invitation

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6 years

Awwww! Sweetest story out of my hometown Lucknow in the longest time. And "Lifted" is so the perfect name for this puppy ❤️🐶

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The thrill of receiving book proofs. And the shock of recognising the text as one that you have lived with for many years and intimately know. #CrookedCats

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My article on nonhuman governance and the Anthropocene is now out in American Ethnologist. It is centred upon the question of how the Indian state goes about identifying a big cat that has been categorised as a "man-eater" before it is hunted or captured.

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Statement from students of Delhi University. I spent 5 years of my life in DU but the true value of public Universities was never clearer to me than it is today. Critical, lived, transformatory politics isn’t easy to teach even (esp?) in so-called ‘top’ Universities #CAAProtests

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4 years

My colleague @SnehaK20 and I are going to be running a series of methodological conversations (via Zoom) over the Summer on how social scientists and humanities scholars can 'study South Asia from afar'. First session on June 23, 2-3 pm BST. Email me if interested in attending.

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As we swap Netflix suggestions and hold Skype parties, spare a thought for Kashmir which has been put under a lockdown since August 5, 2019. An official ban on high speed internet is still in operation. #StandwithKashmir

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An open letter from some of us Gates Cambridge scholars unequivocally condemning the decision of the Gates Foundation to present an award to Indian PM, Narendra Modi. Gates scholars please do consider adding your name to this letter.

An Open Letter from Gates Cambridge Scholars to the Gates Foundation for Awarding Narendra Modi...

An Open Letter from Gates Cambridge Scholars and Alumni to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for Awarding Narendra Modi with the Global Goalkeeper Award As Gates Cambridge scholars and alumni, we...

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2 years

Weeks 1-4 of @CSASPOxford seminars for this term now out! Panel discussions on political, methodological & ethical challenges of researching South Asia. *Thrilled* to have these incredible scholars join us online. Open to all. Register here:

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Presenting first iteration of a new paper on a pet peeve - the hierarchy between ethnography and theory - and current obsession - how the climate crisis changes knowledge-making - at JNU next week.

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4 years

Cecil Rhodes is still standing in Oxford guarded by riot police. However, going by what we saw, heard, and felt this evening Rhodes *will* fall and soon. As one poster said “all Rhodes lead to the river.” Thank you Oxford for coming together like never before. #RhodesMustFall

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We are hiring for an Associate Professor in Digital South Asian Studies. Joint appointment between @CSASPOxford ( @OSGAOxford ) @oiioxford & @StAntsCollege . The field is wide open for a South Asianist working on technology/the digital in creative ways.

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Deeply sorry to hear of the passing of Prof. David Washbrook today. He was taken suddenly very ill just before Christmas, with a diagnosis of advanced cancer. But the end came much more quickly than anyone expected. I am told he died peacefully at home, free of pain. What a loss.

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Excellent essay by Deborah Coen on histories of climate change. Especially agree with her on climate historians having a lot to learn from historians of disenfranchised populations, as well as her scepticism with simply following the lead set by scientists

What’s Next for Histories of Climate Change | Los Angeles Review of Books

Deborah Coen shows how historians miss a great deal when they rely on the quantitative tools of scientists....

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3 years

Very excited for the upcoming Modern South Asian Studies seminar series @CSASPOxford with @MaliniSur @mariarshd @rohandroy @pallaviraghava1 @Suryakant_Waghm Hugo Gorringe @SusVinita @vindib_ Open to all but do pre-register here:

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4 years

This video goes into my lecture on bureaucracy/state. What explains the complete collapse of the civil services in India - in terms of an ethic of public service, accountability, political neutrality - and why is Uttar Pradesh leading the way in this historic breakdown?

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Great Indian Civil Service is leading its people to the den of the pandemic! No hope, nothing is left for this country when the brightest of among us shed all logic & reasoning and wear their servitude as a honour!

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A good day to re-read Niraja Gopal Jayal on the foundational shift the #CAA will bring about in the conception of the Indian citizen.

Faith-based Citizenship

The Citizenship Amendment Bill and the pan-Indian National Register of Citizens mark a foundational shift in the Indian conception of citizenship, providing paths to citizenship for some and driving...

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4 years

So I wrote up my field notes from the #RhodesMustFall protest in Oxford on June 9. This is what I learnt from the protest and here's why I am confident that, this time round, Rhodes will fall.

What I Learnt at the 'Rhodes Must Fall' Protest in Oxford

It is possible to be socially distanced yet politically together even in the midst of a pandemic.

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I can't decide what is more scary: the slow-but-sure normalisation of utterly ubreathable air in South Asia or the localised 'solutions' to it, which are not only somewhat batty and mostly unimplementable, but also incapable of shifting scale to the regional and planetary levels.

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Statement by Filippo Osella on his astounding deportation from Kerala. Like a good anthropologist he ends it with a message of solidarity with Indian academics who are facing more punitive disciplinary measures & Malayali migrants subjected to deportation

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Joins us for the first Modern South Asian Studies seminar of the year at Oxford. I am going to be in conversation with Prof. Polly O'Hanlon on race, caste, and hierarchy. For the first time ever the seminar is genuinely 'open to all'. Register here:

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Peak academia on #PlagueIsland in 2021: just came out of a Zoom meeting with 4 colleagues of whom one currently has Covid, the second suspects he has it and is waiting for PCR result, the third has recently recovered from it, and the fourth is suffering from long Covid.

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It will never be not intimidating to return to the place you were once a student in to present your own research! Wish I was back in 'D School' irl though.

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Good morning to everyone other than my Uncle from Kanpur who has continuously voted for the fascists since 2014 but is now proudly proclaiming "see how UP decides who gets to rule Delhi"

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How quickly India went from an overnight imposition of the world's harshest lockdown to an unblinking acceptance of the fact that every third person seems to have contracted Covid-19 with everyday life carrying on as if there is no pandemic ripping through the country.

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The only post-elections analyses I need today are memes/tweets forwarded by friends, this dizzying sensation of relief mixed with hope, and the uncharacteristic silence on bigoted WhatsApp groups.

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Kumbh was almost certainly the superest spreader event in the history of this pandemic. Its catastrophic impact will be hard to quantify because the state has actively impeded testing and tracing. The toll it has taken in just Uttarakhand is unspeakable.

Kumbh Mela: how a superspreader festival seeded Covid across India

Millions attended Kumbh Mela as India’s second coronavirus wave began

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How the farmers protest in India is linked to the climate crisis. Or why climate politics is to be found everywhere and in things that would appear, on the face of it, unrelated to climate change.

The farmers’ demand for an MSP law is linked to an environmental crisis. Here’s how

Crop diversification could address the problems caused by intense wheat and rice cultivation but the lack of government support makes it a risky prospect.

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4 years

To mark the first anniversary of the Shaheen Bagh protests a special *open access* issue on 'The Hindutva Turn: authoritarianism and resistance in India' in SAMAJ.

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A much-needed new graduate scholarship at Oxford @SomervilleOx named after Savitribai Phule.

Savitribai Phule Graduate Scholarship - Somerville College Oxford

This scholarship has been established by Somerville College and the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development to support students from marginalised communities and underrepresented backgrounds....

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2 years

Delhi peeps, come join our launch of 'The People of India' tomorrow. Hard to offer out hope in this bleak political landscape but this collection does try to make sense of the confounding politics of #NewIndia and pushes for innovative methods for understanding the contemporary.

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3 years

Professor Romila Thapar will be talking about her latest book - 'Voices of Dissent' @seagullbooks - at the next India-Oxford (IndOx) event @CSASPOxford @AsianStudies_Ox on the 30th of April. Register here:

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Really unfair to be living in such a hot climate without mangoes to compensate for it

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. @rkadelhi and I have been writing an essay together for the past year in which we centre both the #FarmLaws and #FarmersProtest as key to an understanding of 'New Indian Politics'. The repeal provides us with the happiest of all possible conclusions, at least for the time being.

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4 years

If my Twitter feed is any representation of reality, then the world is currently divided between increasingly abject hunger and those who are baking sourdough bread from the safety of their homes.

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The backlash against the very mention of redistribution we have been seeing *across the political spectrum* in India has been astonishing and profoundly depressing. Everyone should read this commentary on redistribution by Jean Dreze

Who Is Afraid of Redistribution?

There is a growing attack on the entire idea of redistribution, with social benefits being decried as freebies even as the super-rich are praised as wealth creators.

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4 years

First Christophe Jaffrelot's 'Hindu Nationalism' saved a JNU student from violence. Then Paul Brass's 'Forms of Collective Violence' is listed as evidence against Sharjeel Imam in a sedition charge. What is the lesson here for academics in how they chose their book titles?!

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2 months

For the first time ever I bought a bag in the hope it will match with an event #VotingDay

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India's most respected think-tank with some exceptionally strong researchers and scholars has it's foreign funding license suspended.

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A Statement

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Congratulations to @desai_manali on becoming Head of Department of Cambridge Sociology. A little bit of me is stunned to learn she is the *first* BAME woman to head a department in the University's 811 year history. But most of me is coldly unsurprised.

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Reviewers of an academic article on the National Register of Citizens are suggesting I lessen my use of these words: beast, monster, ominous, devour, Frankensteinian, sinister, grovelling, dangerous, wicked twin. I am going to plead ethnographic specificity and emic discourse.

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We really need more histories and ethnographies of the Indian civil services. Fascinating essay by @narayani_basu on the institutional misogyny of the IFS told through the life of Chonira Belliappa Muthamma, the first woman to top the entrance examination

Ambassador

She topped independent India's first civil services examination. Then she made history by exposing the misogyny of the country's elite diplomatic corps — A new story from India to the world, each...

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We are now at that stage of this grossly mismanaged pandemic in India where it is considered remarkable if someone has managed to *not* contract Covid-19 quite yet

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My two cents on the ecocide in Uttarakhand in @timesofindia . This is an edited and foreshortened version of an argument calling for the centring of history and ethnography in climate change expertise with the #ChamoliDisaster as the case study.

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Delhi seasons should henceforth be classified by its air quality rather than temperature: breathable, unbreathable, and beyond-unbreathable.

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Spine-chilling scenes emerging of a disaster in Chamoli district in #Uttarakhand . Still unclear what precisely has led to this Himalayan flooding or the scale of the destruction. This is what life - and death - in the #Anthropocene consists of.

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Delighted and relieved to see my 'Crooked Cats' is, at long last, out in South Asia and that too at a reasonable price. Snazzy new cover and an updated preface, but otherwise the very same beastly tale. Thanks @HarperCollinsIN

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UP and “political earthquake” in the same sentence 🫶🏽💜😭

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My take on #hautalk : why it shocks but doesn't surprise; what counts as evidence (and what, perplexingly for anthropologists, doesn't), and how comparisons with Indian academia and bureaucratic reforms might be helpful. @allegra_lab

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Looks to be a great module! I dream of designing an 'animals in anthropology' paper with sessions on 'bears and global warming', 'pangolins and pandemics', 'cows and Hindutva', 'leopards and the Anthropocene', 'dogs and urban politics', 'pigeons and dirt' and 'octopus cognition'.

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Excited to teach my MA module 'Animals in history' again this year. Sessions include 'Cats and Class', 'Mosquitoes and Warfare', 'Elephants and labour', 'Tigers and Empires', 'Dogs and and detection' (with expert @SniffThePastDog ), 'Insects in Fascist propaganda'

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As a "Pakistani pigeon" is declared innocent by the Indian state, re-upping my short piece on spy animals ("Chines yaks") that roam the Himalaya and trample across borders with impunity.

Incursion

On July 25th, 2017, a Chinese “incursion” into a Himalayan pasture land called Barahoti was widely reported by the Indian media.[1] Coming in the wake of a tense Himalayan border fracas to the east...

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Super excited that 'Paper Tiger' is finally getting a book launch - a mere three years on from its release - and that too in Cairo of all the wonderful places! Many thanks to the American University in Cairo @AUC for organising this. Please come along if in the vicinity on 02/04.

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From DU, in defiance and with solidarity. Thousands on the streets, I have never before seen such a huge protest in North Campus ❤️❤️❤️

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Am delighted and honoured that #PaperTiger has won the American Ethnological Society's (AES) Sharon Stephens Prize!

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My reading of “Chinese incursions” into the Indian Himalaya. Or, what happens when a multispecies ethnographer tries her hand at International Relations. #spyanimals

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Once when I was presenting a paper on tigers and leopards, I was rather angrily asked “but what about lions?” #TrueStory

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Desperately sad news. David Graeber singlehandedly demonstrated the unique power of anthropology as a discipline to speak to democracy, bureaucracy, value, anarchism, and facets of capitalism ranging from debt to crises. Everyone knows of "bullshit jobs" and "the 1%" due to him.

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We have just heard of the recent passing of #DavidGraeber -according to his wife @nikadubrovsky he died yesterday in a hospital in Venice. May he rest in peace - sending all the love to Nika on this bleak day. She has lost a husband and friend, the world has lost a brilliant mind

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"Our editorial collective is less concerned with demands for conceptual and theoretical ‘newness’ and anthropological ‘turns’ than with making the world safe for human difference. We are defending a vision of anthropology that is ‘in the world’, i.e a ‘worldly’ anthropology..."🫶🏽

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NEW EDITORIAL OUT in which we explain why we keep talking about Palestine and why we think it is our responsibility as academics to do so #FramingGaza

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TFW you read a student thesis and it is so brilliant that it blows your mind. And, suddenly, all the struggles and miseries of the past academic year don't seem all that bad.

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Interested in the roles played by animals in the emergence and development of the French and the British empires? I will be speaking on what bearing this history has on the Anthropocene via big cats in India. Join in for this @MFOxford event later today.

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Highly recommend this micro syllabus on ‘Citizenship and Provisional Belonging in South Asia’ compiled by @ChawlaSwati @j_namakkal @kalramnath @Lydia_Walker_ . Readings that locate the stakes of India’s #CitizenshipAmendmentAct and why we are protesting it.

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Oxford proving this very moment that politically together but socially distanced protests are very much possible. #RhodesMustFall #BlackLivesMatter

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A jetlag-induced thread of entirely personal thoughts on #AmAnth18 . This meeting was overshadowed and, in critical ways that we must not be allowed to forget, defined by #CaliforniaWildfires and the ensuing smoke that hung over and draped us in a toxic haze for the full meeting.

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As an ethnographer of bureaucracy and law, I am simultaneously mystified and intrigued to learn that a bureaucratic process exists in my home state of Uttar Pradesh that allows the Police to legally snatch blankets away from peaceful protestors. UP police are #BlanketThieves

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A good day to re-read this important conversation between @veenadubal and @navyuggill on the #FarmersProtests in India. Situates the strike within the history of agrarian political economy and chillingly brings out the depths - and stakes - of the protest

“Long Live Farmer-Laborer Unity”: Contextualizing the Massive Resistance Going on in India

Although it has hardly broken through the parochialism of the US news cycle, India is currently experiencing what is perhaps the largest strike wave in world history. In this post…

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Achille Mbembe on what decolonisation at a planetary scale means and how techno-optimism is transforming life itself into a computational object.

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For the past two months as the Indian government publishes its laughable official daily death count, my family and I consider the people (note the plural) we know - personally or more remotely - who have succumbed to Covid-19 that very day.

Just How Big Could India’s True Covid Toll Be? (Published 2021)

The country’s official figures grossly understate the pandemic’s true effects. Our estimates, informed by more than a dozen experts’ research, range from very bad to catastrophic.

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David Graeber's academic exile to England, excerpt from his introduction to Kropotkin's 'Mutual Aid', and his bio in his own words (where he tackles Q of the coinage of 'we are the 99%'). Read to get a sense of his politics, career and vast academic reach.

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The only way to recover from the deep disappointment of watching the one minute long trailer of #ASuitableBoy is, surely, by re-reading all 1474 pages of this glorious novel.

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The best thing I wrote in 2020 was a terse two sentence automatic out-of-office email reply saying I am unavailable for 2 weeks.

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The colonial state in India was similarly suspicious of "native" bureaucrats. The transfer system, concept of "home cadre" & many other aspects of Indian bureaucracy emerge from a British fear of native complicity. Bharat sarkar emulating the British Raj.

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On telling the story of the pandemic, the climate crisis, and why the 'resurgent nature' trope is problematic.

‘Nature is healing’: Why we need to be careful about how we tell the story of the pandemic

This narrative is detrimental to the development of a radical climate politics.

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2 years

Anthropologists, if you are AAA-ing this year then do come join us on Saturday night for our book party! #2022AAASeattle

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As an Indian who also bristles when complimented in the UK for how well I speak the English language, this essay by sociologist Satish Deshpande on how this response is borne out of caste-class privilege is a must-read.

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Looking forward to discussing the relationship between the history, philosophy, and ethnography of animals and the climate crisis with Erica Fudge @BasnTweets , @DollyJorgensen and Peter Adamson in the 'Anthropocene Histories' series on Weds @ihr_history

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"Oxfordschnösel" Eternally indebted to the German language for inventing a word to describe this particular type of person.

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Opinion: In Germany, Boris Johnson has been dismissed as a ‘spätimperialistischer Oxfordschnösel’ (late imperialist Oxford snotty-nosed brat), Frederick Studemann writes

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My new article, 'A Petition to Kill', has just been published in Modern Asian Studies! It studies petitions that have been efficacious in their appeals to capture or kill leopards and/or tigers in India.

A Petition to Kill: Efficacious arzees against big cats in India | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge...

A Petition to Kill: Efficacious arzees against big cats in India - Volume 53 Special Issue

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Teaching 'caste' today - first lecture of term - and am struck anew by the sheer brilliance of this article by anthropologist David Mosse on 'the modernity of caste'. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the contemporary nature of caste.

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Only thing more terrifying than the visuals and stories of extreme flooding, collapsing buildings & roads, and accidents in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh is the manner in which it is all now being largely received as just-what-happens-in-the-'fragile'-Himalaya-in-the-Monsoons.

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Little sister muttering "chamatkar, chamatkar" to herself

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Dates for the diary in (!!) 2022: Professor Joya Chatterji's Radhakrishnan memorial lectures on the afterlives of subjecthood in post-partition India.

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An excerpt from Anupama Roy's terrific book on citizenship, belonging in India, and the evil CAA-NRC twins.

Does the Citizenship Amendment Act draw its provenance from the ideology of Hindutva?

An excerpt from ‘Citizenship Regimes, Law, and Belonging: The CAA and the NRC,’ by Anupama Roy.

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What made Nasserism as a political project both singular and powerful? And how do ideas, concepts, and theories change and shift as they move temporally and geographically? By @saramsalem from her exciting new book

Gramsci in the postcolony

How useful is Antonio Gramsci’s concept of hegemony in making sense of 20th century Egyptian politics?

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"You are so good at writing ethnography"

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What’s an insult that actually sounds like a compliment?

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Astonishing to not include anthropologists and historians in this group. Is it because these disciplines are not considered 'sciences' or because they produce uncomfortable forms of knowledge that sit uneasily with the expertise required of such an advisory group?

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Resisting the urge to ring my mother every two hours to find out where she is and when last she washed her hands. #helicopterdaughtering

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What does it mean for rivers to have rights? Not sure it signifies a shift from an extractivist to conservationist approach to nature, but this is a fascinating socio-legal trend visible across the world.

Do India’s rivers have a Constitutional right to flow?

Several Indian courts have ruled that rivers have rights equivalent to that of a person.

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