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Very happy that my book, 'Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia', published by Harvard University Press early next year, is now available for pre-order. Jacket and HUP webpage coming soon.

Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia

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Arun Shourie today: "the BJP is working according to an ideology. And it is our great failing, including mine, to have not studied it." [Pic of a young Shourie hoisting the RSS flag. "The Boy in the Branch" dir Lalit Vachani] via @IndianExpress

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Promoted to full Professor.

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The proofs are here! With abundant thanks to everyone who helped get me this far. @Harvard_Press #NewBook #HurtSentiments

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My book now has a gorgeous cover and is available for pre-order. I'm deeply grateful to reviewers for their generous endorsements, to my editor Kathleen McDermott for heroic patience + support, + huge team at @Harvard_Press . @historicallyKM #HurtSentiments

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Finally in my hands!!

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“Muslim women have finally come into their own... in all my 35 years of working with Muslim women, I had never witnessed a scene like this.” The Brave Women of Shaheen Bagh by Syeda Hameed @syedaindia via @thewire_in ?lang=en

The Brave Women of Shaheen Bagh

Neither the cold, nor attempts at communalising the protests can take away the fact that Shaheen Bagh is testament to the Muslim woman's arrival in Indian politics.

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My piece in today's @the_hindu Wish you all a thoughtful Independence Day. A brief history of India’s present

A brief history of India’s present

A Hindu Rashtra will be a state whose fires will consume us all — Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Dalit, Buddhist, and those not deemed sufficiently Hindu

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Honored to receive a @HFGuggenheim foundation research grant to work on my book project 'Hurt Sentiments and Blasphemy in South Asia'. Will spend fall 2020 working on this.

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In Lodi Gardens, Delhi

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Looking forward to reading and learning from Vinayak Chaturvedi’s book on “Hindutva and Violence”, a product of years of research. I’ve also had the privilege of reading articles on, and listening to iterations of this project. #mustread @PermanentBlack

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On the proposed demolition of the National Archives of India Annexe @IndianExpress

Clipping of Indian Express - Delhi

Dated 12 Jun 2021

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Excellent conference on #Kashmir with Chitralekha Zutshi @irfannooruddin @sardesairajdeep @sagarikaghose and others

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Look forward very much to speaking @TuftsUniversity next week. All are welcome. @tuftscsaios

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Thinking of Salman Rushdie and how bravely he has managed to continue writing since 1989. Thinking back to his interview with @saliltripathi less than a year ago when he spoke of the durability of literature even as writers (under Stalin and Franco) were destroyed.

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LK Advani on amending the Indian Constitution (also approvingly qts Granville Austin on “the spirit of English liberal democracy” in India), on states rights vs strong center, electoral reform + inevitability of coalition govts. Organiser, Independence issue, August 1970.

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Happy to share the introduction to the special issue of our Asian Affairs issue available at @RSAsianAffairs Includes papers on "Citizenship, Belonging, and the Partition of India" that focus on Assam, Gujarat, Sind, Kashmir, Hyderabad, UP & Pakistan.

INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE: CITIZENSHIP, BELONGING, AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA

Published in Asian Affairs (Vol. 53, No. 2, 2022)

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A 100 years since Chauri Chaura. Read this excellent book on the Event, Metaphor, Memory by Shahid Amin - Paperback - University of California Press

Event, Metaphor, Memory

Taking Gandhi's statements about civil disobedience to heart, in February 1922 residents from the villages around the north Indian market town of Chauri Chaura attacked the local police station,...

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Good to see my first book “Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India”, (Harvard U Press and Permanent Black 2011) spotted in The Bookworm, Bengaluru. Grateful to Rajesh Ranjan for the photographs. #BookTwitter #partition #History #memory @chhotaokil

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Read Sarover Zaidi’s profoundly moving piece on Ayodhya, Babri, and Ramu Gandhi’s “Sita ki rasoi” in this month’s Seminar. @bombaywalee , thank you for this!

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How I wish people writing on Gandhi would move beyond “Hind Swaraj” and see him as also evolving and changing his politics through decades in public life.

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#JobAlert The Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenure track appointment as Associate or Full Professor working in #gender and #sexuality studies of the Global South. To apply, please visit

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So glad to announce that @Hurtsentiment @Harvard_Press @HarvardUPLondon @HarperCollinsIN is now available in India. Held by the indefatigable and kind Mithilesh Singh @Bahrisons_books in Delhi. Get your copy!

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Remembering Kamla Masi with so much love. I can’t help but think she has gone to a better place, a kinder place. Rest in power, my friend, my dost, my friend’s mother. #KamlaBhasin

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"1971 and the case for secularism in Bangladesh and India" My piece in The Daily Star. #Bangladesh #India #secularism

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“The will to secular practice”, my piece in today’s Indian Express

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"Unlike most academic books that undertake such rigorous examinations, Nair steers clear of making her book pedantic and ... inaccessible to a lay reader. The tone of the book is reflective, rather than didactic..." #TheSundayExpress via @IndianExpress

Neeti Nair’s Hurt Sentiments is an academic’s deep dive into the trajectory of secularism in the...

Using the NRC-CAA as the backdrop, Nair traces the many ways religious minorities have been disenfranchised across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

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Neeti Nair

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Wish you all a very happy 2024! I will be speaking on "Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia" at a few events in the next two weeks - in Delhi and Kolkata. Please drop by if you are in the vicinity; it will be lovely to see you. Details below.

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Please join us for this important symposium on 'Citizenship, Belonging and the Partition of India' on April 9, at 9 am EST via zoom. @RSAsianAffairs @UVa_IHGC @UVA_History

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My piece on the leadership crisis in the Congress and its consequence for the future of India “Missing Rahul in Delhi” via @IndianExpress

Rahul Gandhi, who lives not far from Shaheen Bagh or northeast Delhi, has not been seen

Rahul Gandhi had declared, “I am against any sort of violence against anybody on this planet”. How about Delhi then? Is it still a part of this planet? Jamia? JNU? Gargi College? Or does he think...

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Kamla Bhasin was also one of the pioneers of the second wave of writing on the Partition. Her 1993 essay in @epw_in "Recovery, Rupture, Resistance: Indian State and Abduction of Women during Partition" coauthored wi Ritu Menon --->Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition.

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My piece on the significance of the street protests against #CAA alongside a history of Indian secularism as a series of proclamations and good intentions from above. @UVA_History @TheWilsonCenter @ThePrintIndia #ThePrintOpinion

ThePrintIndia

@ThePrintIndia

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For the first time, India is seeing secularism go from a top-down decree to a street slogan @NeetiNair , associate professor of history at the University of Virginia, writes #ThePrintOpinion

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Loved the walk with historian Swapna Liddle and Stephen’s alumni on a beautiful winter morning. #Delhi #walks #history #Delhiridge #1857 . ⁦ @CafeSSC ⁩

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My IESHR article on 295a IPC is republished in The Law Weekly and The Law Weekly (Criminal). Hope it's read widely.

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#BornAMuslim is the kind of lived history #Southasianists need to read. Ghazala Wahab’s autobiographical account of growing up in #India esp decades of 1980-90s is a #mustread . Also, sharp critique of ashraf Muslim politics and excellent dissection of Partition-related myths.

Ghazala Wahab

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Here's a screenshot of the contents #BornAMuslim

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Excellent news! Brilliant novelist and journalist Mohammed Hanif is awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz by the Pakistan govt. Hanif has written 'A Case of Exploding Mangoes', 'Our lady of Alice Bhatti', 'The Baloch who is not missing and others who are', & much more.

Ammara Ahmad

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. @mohammedhanif has won the third highest civilian award in Pakistan- Sitara-e-Imtiaz. He has been writing against injustice, state brutality & enforced disappearances. Proud that Pak govt has shown some maturity by recognising a great voice despite its dissent. Photo: @nytimes

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Ayub Khan, in his autobiography published in 1967.

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10 days to go. Join us for an important set of presentations and conversations on Citizenship, Belonging and the Partition of India. Registration details for the zoom webinar are below.

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Looking forward to a virtual symposium on “Citizenship, Belonging, and the Partition of India”, April 9 at 9 am EST with @buchu @aziakashmir @akkhan81 @uttaras @FarooqiMehr Farhana Ibrahim @waheed_sarah Shahla Hussain @bsod_nams To register:

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@_YogendraYadav ‘In the long run, we either have a secular India or we risk having no India at all’.

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.⁦ @_YogendraYadav ⁩: The real problem of Indian secularism is the failure of its cultural politics. Many Indians today see secularism as an alien and dispensable idea. v ⁦ @SalmanSoz ⁩

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So good to be at Madison again, in person, with friends and colleagues @SVRuparelia @HistorianDurba Vinayak, Anu, Robert.

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On #AyodhyaJudgment for @ttindia @UVA_History @TheWilsonCenter

Ayodhya case verdict: Secularism not easy to crush, says academic

Neeti Nair spoke about the verdict and the future of secularism in India

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A remarkable book by Anam Zakaria on #1971 . So many perspectives, so much nuance. #mustread

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My new book "Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia" is now available for preorder in India. Many thanks to @HarperCollinsIN and @HarvardUPLondon @Harvard_Press

Hurt Sentiments

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Very happy that my book, 'Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia', published by Harvard University Press early next year, is now available for pre-order. Jacket and HUP webpage coming soon.

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Glad to report that my new book “Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia” can now be preordered from the HUP website. The code HOL22 will get you 30% off the list price (for all Harvard books). @HarvardUPLondon @Harvard_Press

Hurt Sentiments — Harvard University Press

An insightful history of censorship, hate speech, and majoritarianism in post-partition South Asia.At the time of the India-Pakistan partition in 1947, it was widely expected that India would be...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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Very happy to share the latest Harvard University Press catalog. "Hurt Sentiments" is in excellent company, and now available for preorders from amazon and other retailers.

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Kudos to India’s vibrant civil society that has asked the difficult questions, filed RTIs and petitions, started YouTube channels, reminded people to vote, done much of the organizational heavy lifting for this election. This is their win.

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Irrespective of which coalition comes to power, our collective demand for greater transparency and accountability in the electoral process continues. Ultimately, it is accountability to the people which matters in a democracy! ✊🏽✊🏽

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Happy Diwali, Happy Deepavali 🪔

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"Inside the parliament things that should have been said were not said, and that is why people are out on the streets." Judge Kamini Lau as Delhi Police Oppose Bail for Aazad via @thewire_in

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RIP Dr Baker, an institution at an institution. A model teacher, who loved St. Stephens and Delhi with all his heart. ⁦ @CafeSSC ⁩ ⁦ @StStephensClg ⁩

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#1 New Release in Pakistan History. Okay then... Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia #Amazon via @Amazon

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Amrita Pritam, MS Subbulakshmi, Indira Gandhi. From Amrita Pritam, “Life and Times”, Vikas, 1989.

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A beautiful tribute to Ranajit Guha. I had the privilege of listening to Guha speak with Amartya Sen at a seminar at Tufts University in September 2000. RIP to a scholar who "followed his own path throughout his life" and whose scholarship has transformed the field of history.

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Ranajit Guha, India’s oldest living historian, starts his 100th year with dazzling scholarship Guha, who retired from teaching in 1988 but didn’t stop writing, is one of the most influential south Asian historians today. By Somak Mukherjee ✍️

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Looking forward to the panel on India’s elections at Yale tomorrow.

Yale South Asian Studies Council

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TOMORROW, April 18 | 5:30PM ET | Luce Hall 202 Please join us for the second panel of a two-part series moderated by Sushant Singh featuring Ravi Agrawal, Devesh Kapur, and Neeti Nair.

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Finally, a carefully researched, nuanced and excellent essay on the public resignation of Jogendranath Mandal and caste and Bengali Hindu minority politics in the early years of Pakistan. #mustread

South Asia: JSAS

@southasiajsas

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Ghazal Asif draws on archival data to examine some turns in the political career of the Dalit leader Jogendranath Mandal in Pakistan between 1947 and 1950, interweaving Mandal’s trajectory with ongoing debates on the politics of caste in the new state.

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Honored that Prof Krishna Kumar discusses my book “Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India”, in this important reflection. The idea of a South Asian solidarity still has the potential to detoxify the legacies of 1947

The idea of a South Asian solidarity still has the potential to detoxify the legacies of 1947

Krishna Kumar writes: When SAARC was mooted in 1985, it created the hope that trade, cultural activity and intellectual exchange would gradually diminish the political legacies of Partition by...

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@Shehla_Rashid @Tahir_A @Syedtg @AskSheikhAadil @ShujaUH @free_thinker @svaradarajan @samar11 @AzaanJavaid Stay strong and incredibly brave. More power to you!

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Mamdani on European Modernity and the Boundaries of Tolerance

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You are warmly invited to my virtual book launch on March 13 at 11 am EST. Thank you, Michael and @TheWilsonCenter for hosting! @GlobalUva @UVA_History

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@MichaelKugelman

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On March 13 at 11am, I host an online event w/ @NeetiNair on her timely new book on the history of censorship, hate speech & majoritarianism in post-partition South Asia. @tarunkhaitan (India) @AU_Qasmi (Pakistan), Ali Riaz (Bangladesh) to offer commentary.

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The National Archives of India Annexe is slated to be demolished for the new Central Vista Project. There is no clarity with regard to how the millions (literally, millions) of documents will be preserved & moved, or why this demolition is necessary. Please sign this petition.

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@mformcmprime

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The NAI annexe buildings which substantively contain the the archival documents of the repository is being demolished with no oversight or information on proper transfer, future location or future access to them. Read, sign and share widely:

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Happy Diwali, Happy Deepavali. Hoping for light in dark times, good health in a time of sickness, hope amid despair.

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Sarover Zaidi writes wi so much love: "What is this new speed of protest? How do we measure its weft and weave? When is it a crowd, and when does it become a camp, a community, a commune? Is it a protest about rights, or is it a sit-in..." #FarmersProtest

Survivance - Sarover Zaidi - The Gift of Food

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Finally heard this. Listen from min 19-32, 56-end if you're an academic (of any sort), have no time, but want to learn about caste in the American academy. good news? the times, they are a changin' #mustlisten

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Much awaited episode 'Caste in America' is out! We discussed if caste is the number one export of India to the USA. How it operates among Indian diaspora in tech, academia, cultural organisation and many other spheres. You shouldn’t miss this one out. All links in next tweet👇

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Looking forward to this book discussion in Delhi tomorrow.

Kashif Ahmed Faraz

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CSPS invites you to a #bookdiscussion on 'Hurt Sentiments: Secularism & Belonging in South Asia' Author: Prof @NeetiNair , @UVA Chair: Dr @smujibrehman , @jmiu_official ⏲️ 6 Jan 2024 | 12:00 PM (IST) Venue: CSPS Office Register Below: #southasia #cspsindia

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Thinking also of his approach to writing: "The world is immense. The idea that you should only write about things that emerge from your immediate personal experience is limiting. Go find things out!" May he rise from this disaster, write and create once more, live his life.

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Thank you to Michael Kugelman @AsiaProgram @TheWilsonCenter for hosting my book launch and to Professors Ali Riaz, Tarun Khaitan and Ali Usman Qasmi for their excellent comments. @tarunkhaitan @AU_Qasmi Link:

Hurt Sentiments | Book Launch Event

At this virtual book event, Dr. Neeti Nair, a distinguished historian of South Asia and a Wilson Center global fellow, will discuss her new study, Hurt Senti...

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@WC_IndoPacific

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ICYMI - Author and global fellow @NeetiNair joined us to talk about her new book Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia. You can watch the video of the event on our website now -

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Looking forward v much to the virtual bk launch of my new bk @TheWilsonCenter on March 13, 11 am. Commentators are Professors Tarunabh Khaitan @tarunkhaitan , Ali Usman Qasmi @AU_Qasmi and Ali Riaz. Big thanks to Michael Kugelman for hosting. Will be live-streamed.

Michael Kugelman

@MichaelKugelman

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Save the Date: On March 13 at 11am, I will host a virtual discussion w/ @TheWilsonCenter fellow @NeetiNair on her important new book, Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia. Also joining are commentators @tarunkhaitan @AU_Qasmi & Ali Riaz.

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I am an academic and I call for a free Palestine and an end to the Israeli state's apartheid. This is integral to both my world view and my scholarship. Pass it on.

Mubbashir Rizvi

@Mubbashir_R

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I am an academic and I call for a free Palestine and an end to the Israeli state's apartheid. This is integral to both my moral world view and my scholarship. Pass it on.

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Shreya Das "... by exploring the connected historical causes of its current embattled state in India, Pakistan & Bangladesh, Hurt Sentiments stands out as an original work of research that has much to offer to scholars of South Asian history & politics."

Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia

Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)

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An Interview with members of the editorial board of Socio-Legal Review ⁦ @SLR_NLSIU ⁩ . Part of a conversation we had last December in Bengaluru. Grateful for their engagement and professionalism in the middle of a busy semester. ⁦ @KRManoharan ⁩

Hurt Sentiments: An Interview with Neeti Nair

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Enjoyed reading Norms and Politics - Arvind Elangovan - Oxford University Press. His emphasis on conflict rather than consensus in the making of the #Indian #Constitution and attention to political history is valuable and long overdue. #twitterstorians

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‘Attacks on freedom of speech outsourced to the mob... that is NEW’ @sagarikaghose with @radvaz @dhume and Gautam Adhikari #FreeSpeech Panel on ‘freedom of expression in media & the arts’ @indiaideasconf

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Evocative, thoughtful, tastefully designed projects on #Lahore 's past by students and Professor @AU_Qasmi of Lahore University of Management Sciences. Linger a while here ... #WalkingInTheCity

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@AU_Qasmi

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here's the link to our projects:

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Grateful for this thoughtful, detailed review of "Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia" by Shahin Kachwala in SAMAJ @Harvard_Press via @OpenEditionActu

Neeti Nair. Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia

In Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia, Neeti Nair unravels the historically shifting meanings of secularism, religious statehood, citizenship, censorship, majoritarian demands,...

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Colleagues, @UVA_History and @UVADemocracy are launching a search for a Distinguished Professor of Democracy and the History of South Asia. Please click here for information on how to apply. Circulate widely, thanks! #SouthAsiaJob

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Happy Diwali!

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My book 'Changing Homelands' on #Punjab 's #Hindus and the #Partition is now available in paper from @PermanentBlack

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A preview of my current research on “Hurt Sentiments and Forbidden Speech in India”. Many thanks to the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy @PennMitchellCtr for the conversation.

Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy

@PennMitchellCtr

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For those who may have missed it, our latest installment of our Free Speech Battles series, is now available on YouTube. Special thanks to Dr. @NeetiNair for an excellent and important discussion:

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3 years

Eqbal Ahmad’s chicken tikka masala marinade recipe!

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@NeetiNair

2 years

Very happy to share the latest Harvard University Press catalog. "Hurt Sentiments" is in excellent company, and now available for preorders from amazon and other retailers.

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@HarvardUPLondon

2 years

Our international Spring/Summer 2023 catalogue is live! Take a look at the books we're publishing next year:

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1 year

Thanks to the Bookshop at Jorbagh @BookshopJB for the shoutout on instagram. @HarperCollinsIN @Harvard_Press @HarvardUPLondon

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@NeetiNair

6 years

So excited for the ⁦ @tmkrishna ⁩ concert about to start at Georgetown. Grateful to the organizers for scheduling this after the SSVT temple changed their mind. And, what a tremendous turnout. Well done, Karnatic music and T M Krishna aficionados!

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2 years

“There is a tendency…for leading statesmen in Europe and America to look at the world from Europe and America. Well, if we look at the same world with the same principles from let us say Delhi or Karachi, the world looks slightly different. Geography counts.” - Jawaharlal Nehru

BBC Archive

@BBCArchive

2 years

Today marks 75 years since the partition of India. In June 1953, independent India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeared on the BBC for his television debut. 🧵1/4

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3 years

@nkhverma Thank you for sharing this. So important to record these experiences and to learn from them about true allyship. In that photograph of the two of you, he looks so proud of you.

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1 year

ICYMI. My interview with @Ullekh of @Openthemag on the rise of hurt sentiments and discourses of victimhood in South Asian politics, on #Partition , communalism, secularism, and maybe a bit more.

Open Magazine

@Openthemag

1 year

It is far too easy to blame Cold War dynamics for the placement of India and Pakistan in rival blocs, and Pakistan’s subsequent hurtling into chaos, @NeetiNair tells @Ullekh ; @Harvard_Press , #HurtSentiments

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11 months

Hurt Sentiments in the “wild” ⁦ @HarvardBooks ⁩ in the Asia & the Pacific section.

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@NeetiNair

4 years

Reeling from⁩ Mohammed Hanif’s ‘Red Birds’. Brilliant, and achingly sad.

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@NeetiNair

2 years

A brilliant book, albeit depressing as hell. Some of the best work coming out of India is by grounded journalists with a strong sense of history that enables them to track changes in the last decade or so. #DespiteTheState

m rajshekhar

@mrajshekhar

3 years

And here we go. #DespiteTheState has been launched. You can buy it online as paperback or ebook at Amazon: (Indian subcontinent) or (World). And at a growing number of bookstores. On whom, this slowly accreting thread.

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4 years

Reposting my interview on the Citizenship Amendment Act and the extreme right within the BJP forging a path for a Hindu Rashtra. #CAA_NRC

The Telegraph

@ttindia

4 years

Neeti Nair, associate professor of South Asian history at the University of Virginia in the US, tells The Telegraph that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the NRC represent steps towards a “Hindu Rashtra”.

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@NeetiNair

4 years

Put private hospitals to public use. Massively expand production of PPEs. Supply free water tankers to slum shanties. Expand and extend the employment guarantee program. A host of useful suggestions from @harsh_mander to tackle covid-19 in India.

Natasha Badhwar

@natashabadhwar

4 years

Send migrants home within a week. Give loans to MSMEs. Grant bail to undertrials. Pay frontline workers. Care for the homeless. India CAN still deal effectively with the pandemic, but WILL we do it? @harsh_mander shows the way.

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1 year

Hurt Sentiments stays at #10 on the non-fiction bestseller list @Bahrisons_books . @HarperCollinsIN @Harvard_Press Thank you! Keep reading and buying 📚 ! ♥️

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10 months

“Hurt Sentiments” spotted at Readings in Lahore. Thanks to @ilsarazzak for the pictures!

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5 years

@atti_cus I predict a hung parliament followed by days of negotiations, and finally, a UPA-MGB coalition with different parties, some surprises (but obviously no BJP).

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2 years

On the Haridwar hate speech and the choices of political parties on the eve of elections. A lesson from the elections of 1971, perhaps? #secularism #hatespeech @IndianExpress

It is dangerous to ignore Haridwar hate speech

🔴 Neeti Nair writes: Incidents like this should remind us about the fragility of secularism in India, of its confinement to the realm of beautiful language

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4 years

My take. ‘For Congress, a history lesson’ | The Indian Express

Mindless devotion to Congressi politics is no substitute for a thoughtful reckoning of the past

The Congress party today is a pale shadow of its former self. That the landscape of politics in India has completely transformed is obvious. But there can still be room for the Congress as an...

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@NeetiNair

5 months

Look forward to speaking in Kolkata - at the Netaji Research Bureau on 14 January and at Presidency University on 15 January. Hope to see you there. Details 👇🏼 #bookdiscussion

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4 years

This is extremely powerful and moving. A fitting tribute to the preamble and the Constitution by #WeThePeople . #IndiaRejectsCAA_NRC #JaiHind

Betwa Sharma

@betwasharma

4 years

Just happened: A reading of the preamble to the Constitution of India at India Gate. “We, the people of India...” #Delhi #CAAProtests

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3 years

First day of in-person teaching in more than a year. It is *so good* to be back even though it is quite something to speak through a mask 😷. Fingers crossed this semester works out, in-person!

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5 years

‘An Emergency Today’. My review of Gyan Prakash’s ‘Emergency Chronicles’ where I compare that Emergency with the ongoing emergency in #Kashmir

The New Rambler

@TheNewRambler

5 years

New today: A timely review of Gyan Prakash's *Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point* by Neeti Nair

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6 years

@AzmiShabana speaks @TheWilsonCenter for @WPSProject Dismal stats for women’s participation in parliament and public service in #SouthAsia , barring #Bangladesh

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1 year

Thank you, Shivendra and @HarperCollinsIN

Shivendra Singh

@shivarko_writes

1 year

We are delighted to announce the arrival of an important book that breaks new ground for South Asian historiography, depicting how claims of hurt religious sentiments have been weaponized by majorities. *Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia*, by @NeetiNair .

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