Edward Anderson @edanderson101 Twitter profile

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Edward Anderson

9 months

I've just written this short piece about my Grandad, who came to Britain as a refugee in the 1930s, and running the @Great_Run next month for @actionFdn - an incredible local charity which supports and empowers refugees in the North East. #RefugeesWelcome

My grandad was welcomed here as a refugee - why I'm running the GNR - Action Foundation

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3 years

Havelock Road in Southall - London's 'Little India' - is finally to be renamed Guru Nanak Road. This is a big deal. Havelock Rd was named after the colonial British general who fought in the Sikh wars & later suppressed the 1857 Uprising. It is home to London's largest gurudwara.

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Just had a taxi driver in Singapore ask me: 'How's things going back in Britain? No deal??', and then laugh uproariously for a full minute.

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Britain's ex colonies, looking at the going ons in Britain.

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Fantastic. My stupid idli comment has now been connected - ever so tenuously - to the US election. For the record: I love Indian food... and especially south Indian food! (Just not idlis).

Row over 'insult' to Indian dish Kamala Harris likes

The idli is a steamed rice cake appreciated by millions - including US VP candidate Kamala Harris.

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

@AnandWrites @geneweingarten Ah yes. That's why the masala dabba was invented: to hold that one spice in multiple containers.

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4 years

What on earth is happening...

Idli-gate: A British Professor Who Called Idli 'Boring' Led to a South Indian Revolt on Twitter -...

UK-based history professor Edward Andwerson's unpopular opinion about 'idli' provoked a response from many South Indians including Congress's Thiruvananthapuram MP Sashi Tharoor.

www.news18.com

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Just been gifted the most beautiful masala dabba by the mother-in-law. It's easily going to make my cooking twice as good, I'm sure. What dish should I make with it first?

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4 years

Idli are the most boring things in the world.

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Romila Thapar is one of the world's most distinguished and respected historians of India. Any top university in the world would have given their right arm to have her on their faculty, but she devoted her entire career to DU & JNU.

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My dumb idli tweet has led to media coverage across India & beyond (BBC, CNN!), TV reports, a radio interview & lots of fun - and more heated - debate. Best of all may be this cartoon of @ShashiTharoor & me in today's Manorama, one of the world's biggest circulation newspapers!

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3 years

Funnily enough *exactly* the same arguments were used when Ugandan Asians were fleeing Idi Amin's regime in 1972. Around 27,000 ended up settling in the UK & went on to achieve enormous success. As it happens Priti Patel's parents were among those who emigrated from Uganda to UK.

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"We can not accommodate 20,000 people in one go." Home Secretary @pritipatel tells @KayBurley it is "important" to have a system "that delivers" regarding the new Afghan refugee scheme. Latest: #KayBurley

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1 year

Just rewatched the Richard Attenborough's 1982 Gandhi film for the first time in ages. It's remarkable in many ways and, of course, problematic in others. But the total absence of Ambedkar is maybe the most shocking part of all.

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23 days

Oof. It's kicking off in the Humanities & Social Sciences building...

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4 years

This has really got out of hand 😂

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A tweet by a UK professor invoked the wrath of netizens after he called the famous South India dish Idli- one of the most 'boring' and 'insufferable' things in the world. Do you feel the same? #NewsMo #UnitedKingdom #SouthIndia #Idli | @Akshita_N

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3 years

Who knew that Sikkim's top export was cooked stuffed pasta, Nagaland's was human hair, and Chandigarh's was needles? (Perhaps lots of people... but I didn't!)

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4 years

One problem with pissing off south Indian twitter is that they are in literally every timezone - even when India sleeps, the irate replies keep coming! 😉

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4 years

Fantastic to hear today that official permission has been granted to preserve the former London home of Dr B.R. Ambedkar as a museum and memorial. Jai Bhim!

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4 years

Brought my dad some provisions and (from a distance!) introduced him to his granddaughter for the first time. Maya is one month old today - a strange time to come into the world!

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2 years

How have I only just found out about Kismi biscuits?? An absolute revelation! Basically the lovechild of Parle-G and Biscoff. With a cup of tea, perfection.

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2 years

Mother-in-law has just arrived to stay and brought this with her for the house. Is she trolling me?

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2 years

Well here's a plot twist I never saw coming... Just made my first ever batch of idlis at home!

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3 years

@chortle Cool story. Here's a screenshot of it which includes the 'Live Comedy Picks' featuring... er....a load of straight white men.

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2 years

Just had the most incredible meal in Trivandrum. Not pictured: about every fish dish on the menu, which I was unable to resist ordering. Now immobile.

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4 years

Having accidentally enraged the entirety of South India (and its omnipresent diaspora) on twitter, it was only right to order idlis for lunch. I'm very sorry to report that my unpopular - or "blasphemous", as some have said - opinion remains unchanged. #sorrynotsorry

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4 years

Idli are the most boring things in the world.

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p.s. Before the whole of south India attacks me, can I just say that I love dosa and appam and basically all south Indian food. But idli (and puttu for that matter) are insufferable.

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4 years

Wonderfully detailed map showing global trade routes in the 11th-12th century. Great illustration of the myriad layers & reach of global connectivity - and with Europe decentred - that long predates modern notions of globalisation. Zoomable version here:

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Encampment underway in Newcastle. #MayDay4Palestine #StopArmingIsrael @ucu

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8 years

British man "fed up" with “rubbish” being talked about #immigration takes out full-page advert in @MetroUK . #EUref

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India becomes the first country to ever receive more than $100bn from its overseas migrant population, according to new World Bank figures. This represents a 12% increase on last year and ~$1 of every $6 remitted globally. Equivalent to 3% of India's GDP.

India remittances set to hit record $100 billion in 2022

Remittances sent to low and middle-income countries have grown by 5% this year, says the World Bank.

www.bbc.com

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@edanderson101

3 years

'Why Kerala, not Bollywood, is India’s rapid-response unit for Covid films' - great piece by @Namrata_Joshi on the thriving Malayalam film industry (featuring a quote from the world's best mother-in-law).

Why Malayalam cinema, not Bollywood, is India’s rapid-response unit for Covid films

From Mumbai noir to plantation Macbeth, Kerala’s more dynamic and independent-driven industry is responding urgently to the pandemic

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Amazing map showing the distribution of India's 1.1 million students studying abroad. I was surprised recently to find out there were 18k Indian students in Ukraine. Many people also seem to have a rather Western-centric notion of where Indian students study. (via @indiainpixels )

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@nathanfiler @amolrajan Here we go @amolrajan . Courtesy of the peerless @EddeLacy !

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2 years

Just found this handsome fellow in a local antiques shop. Slightly enormous. But I've got to buy him.... right?

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6 years

Often wonder whether any actual terrorists or spies have been caught out by the US visa question: "Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide?"

The woman who accidentally ticked: 'I am a terrorist'

Cancer patient Mandie Stevenson had to postpone a bucket list trip to New York after her visa mistake.

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3 years

"This is to introduce to you an Indian gentleman, Mr B R Ambedkar... He is not only a very able, but an exceedingly pleasant fellow." This reference, written in 1920, is part of a new exhibition on Babasaheb's time at LSE. His whole student file has just been digitised. Jai Bhim!

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7 years

Some of the old Air India posters were incredibly weird.

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6 years

Daily Mail hatchet job on my colleague, @PriyamvadaGopal , is as hateful & racist as you'd imagine. But it does collate some of her 'greatest hits'! We fully stand by her. And it seems everyone the snivelling hack contacted at Cambridge either ignored him or told him where to go!

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Edward Anderson

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3 years

Just come across this rather wonderful photo of Nehru at a Penicillin factory in Pune (August 1956). Indira is seen behind him. This captures a pioneering period in the development of India as a major manufacturer of pharmaceuticals.

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3 years

Does anyone else find it unbelievably frustrating that you can currently go into all 'non-essential' shops, to buy anything you fancy and mill around in a confined space, but we're all still prohibited from going to museums and galleries. What does that tell us?

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5 years

An estimated 5 million women joined hands today across the length of Kerala, demanding gender equality. Incredibly powerful & moving. Here are some pics I took in Trivandrum of the last 1km of the 620km route. #WomensWall #VanithaMathil

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2 years

Nothing quite like a long train journey in India.

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4 years

If I took up everyone's offers to provide me with delicious idlis - from all corners of India & beyond - I wouldn't have to cook or buy food for a year! It's confirmation that Indian people's passion for food is matched by their generosity. 🙏

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3 years

Had a sublime, nostalgic end to the weekend after discovering a long-lost tetrapak of Old Monk in my cupboard.

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4 years

Wow. I now know to criticise south Indian food at my peril! The idli defenders appear to be a seriously passionate bunch. But will my in-laws in Kerala forgive me??

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4 years

Oh dear...

Shashi Tharoor

@ShashiTharoor

4 years

Yes, my son, there are some who are truly challenged in this world. Civilisation is hard to acquire: the taste & refinement to appreciate idlis, enjoy cricket, or watch ottamthullal is not given to every mortal. Take pity on this poor man, for he may never know what Life can be.

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@ShashiTharoor Oh no, I feared that the world's most famous idli evangelist would see this after @ishaantharoor tweeted it! Coincidentally 'this poor man' is currently re-reading one of your books which I've set my students to read for a class next week!

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2 years

This video - of Europe's constantly shifting borders - is superb. Apparently, less than 1% of international borders were created before 1500. Will definitely be showing this video at the start of my next lecture on nationalism and national identity.

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8 years

Just got this message from a close friend. UK in 2016. How long before I'm berated for being the grandson of a refugee who fled the Nazis?

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3 years

Have always found this photo from 1941 captivating. It shows Indian soldiers drinking tea outside Woking's Shah Jahan Mosque: the UK's first purpose-built mosque. I think it's the juxtaposition of something so ordinary - having a mug of tea - with the remarkable moment & setting.

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3 years

People saying that I want to remove or erase history because I support a street being renamed. I'm a historian. I have literally made it my life's work to teach people about the past. I'm sorry for you if the extent of your understanding of history is a road name or a statue.

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Brilliant, well done Rishi. You're sabotaging one of the most successful and important sectors of the British economy. And for what? International students and their families have no recourse to public funds and contribute tens of billions to the UK economy every year.

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We’ve taken action to reduce migration. Student dependant applications are now down by 80%.

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6 months

Publication day today!

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6 years

Do you think India Today writers would like doing actual journalism, if they tried it?

IndiaToday

@IndiaToday

6 years

Do you think PM @narendramodi would like chocolate Swiss Roll if he tries it?

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4 years

For the record, the sambar and chutney were good. And I still adore almost all of the wonderful cuisine of south India. Thanks to Newcastle's Malayali restaurant, Ury, for the idlis. I may not have finished them, but the delicious fish curry, dosa and payasam were devoured.

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2 years

This story is shocking. Not only for Liddle's intentionally upsetting remarks but those of the head of the college who invited him to come and say all this hateful stuff at a Christmas bloody dinner. And then calls his students "pathetic." What a nasty man.

South Principal calls students “pathetic” for protest over “transphobic” guest

Columnist Rod Liddle’s comments about colonialism, single mothers and trans issues prompted student outcry.

www.palatinate.org.uk

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4 years

Another twist in the tale of idli-gate. (He must be keeping an eye on me to make sure I don't denounce any other South Indian delicacies.... which I won't!)

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Idli are the most boring things in the world.

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Visited Dr Ambedkar's bust @LSEnews . Babasaheb Ambedkar was awarded a Masters & PhD in Economics at LSE in 1922-3 (whilst also studying law at Gray's Inn, having already completed postgraduate studies at Columbia). His LSE thesis was published as The Problem of the Rupee in 1923.

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My two impossibly lovely ladies all dressed up for #Onam . (If anyone can point us in the direction of a good sadhya in Newcastle we'd be very grateful!!) #HappyOnam #Onam2020

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3 years

Maradona will be missed the world over. But not least in Kerala, where you can witness unbelievable adulation of him. He visited in 2012 to the elation of the state's innumerable Argentina football fans. RIP

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3 years

You can't properly understand WW1 without the context of Empire. In turn, WW1 tells us so much about imperialism in the 20th century. These records of 320k troops from Punjab will help shed new light on these often misunderstood & overlooked connections.

Records of 320,000 Punjab soldiers from first world war uncovered

Military files of Indian troops left unread in Pakistan museum for 97 years go online

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

I promised myself never to tweet about idlis again, but this article by @Poojaspillai is great. The story of how they became so popular and ubiquitous is a fascinating history of labour, migration, and more. Not remotely boring!

Serves all, with a side of chutney

There’s no doubt that the humble idli is one of India’s most consumed breakfast dish. But what accounts for its popularity?

indianexpress.com

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7 years

Afternoon spent in a ridiculously beautiful corner of an amazingly gorgeous part of India. Feeling the love for Kerala!

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3 years

Filling a glass with water from a tap in your house and drinking it.

Rarely Seen, Always Noticed 🤞🏽

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3 years

What is something most people don't realize is a privilege?

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Distraught to learn that the digitised archive of Spare Rib - the iconic feminist magazine - is no longer accessible due to Brexit. My students and I spent weeks exploring the archive just last semester: it's an invaluable resource for studying the Women's Liberation Movement.

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@MikeStuchbery_ Tony's going to be gutted when he finds out the etymology of the word village is French and Latin.

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If yr not familiar w/ Bollywood & think people like Brad Pitt/Kim Kardashian are big stars, watch this video. #SRK 's house on his birthday.

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Thank you everyone who came from all over the world to wish me. U make me feel so special & loved. Really this is the best moment for me.

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@nadinebh_ Regardless of what you think about Bolton, I like how she demands "deference and respect" at the end, but a couple mins earlier calls a very senior journalist "darling".

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4 years

Currently thinking of Kala Ghoda ('Black Horse') in Mumbai. This was a statue of Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, mounted on a horse. In 1965 it was removed & relocated to the city's zoo. Then, in 2017, a near replica of the horse was restored to the original site... sans rider!

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Interview with Prof Christophe @jaffrelotc - 'Hindu nationalism and the "saffronisation of the public sphere"'. Just crossed 1k views! Open access.

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6 years

Massive turnout at the #USSstrike really @Cambridge_Uni . Incredibly heartening & quite emotional to see such remarkable solidarity & support from our students. #UCUstrike

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Just found an old notebook from early on in my PhD. Brilliant stuff. #phdchat

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"I've been fighting against empire... slavery & colonialism all my life. I've been writing to connect with people, not to impress governments & monarchy. So how could I accept an 'honour' that puts the word 'empire' onto my name?" RIP Benjamin Zephaniah

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6 years

I often think about the fact that 1 in 50 Brits don't know if they've ever lived in London.

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6 years

Just received the strongest statement yet from @Cambridge_Uni VC, Prof Stephen Toope. Positive stuff - we are being heard!

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3 years

To all those in the replies who feel the need to defend the legacy of Havelock, why not try to adopt the considered, respectful & sensible approach of one of his actual ancestors...

Emily Mckenzie

@Emily_Mckenzie

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@edanderson101 @EalingCouncil @VirendraSharma @juliangbell As a descendant of Henry Havelock, this news makes me really happy. My ancestor's story will always be part of British history, but his living relatives have a much different view on the world and are very happy to celebrate Sikh influences and culture in the UK.

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93,000 candidates - including 3,700 PhD holders, 50,000 graduates, 28,000 postgrads - have applied for 62 messenger posts in UP police.

Jobs Crisis: Over 93,000 candidates, including 3,700 PhD holders apply for peon job in UP

3,700 PHDs holders, 50,000 graduates, 28,000 PGs have applied for 62 posts of messengers in UP police. The post requires a minimum eligibility of Class V.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

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Young people protesting in London against the 1971 Immigration Act. This restricted migration to the UK & eroded the right of Commonwealth citizens to settle. Such a fantastic, dynamic picture; just chosen for cover of my Migration & Diaspora module guide. (Photo by Peter Arkell)

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Here is @EalingCouncil 's official announcement (which avoids mentioning anything about why it was called Havelock in the first place!) Great news. Congrats to @VirendraSharma @juliangbell and all others involved in campaigning for & effecting this change.

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7 years

Telegraph & DM frame articles on the evolution of English teaching at Cambridge to attack BME scholars. Ugly racism.

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3 years

@LukeDon80051530 It's good to debate these things but if your best example is Vikings then you may not have a great case. The Vikings haven't invaded Britain for 1000 years, whereas many of Britain's >4.5 million people of South Asian descent have a living memory of suffering under colonial rule.

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My article on colonial statues, how India dealt with them after independence, and why one of them ended up in a garden outside Cambridge. Out now in the July issue of @thecaravanindia .

India’s troubled relationship with colonial-era statues

A statue of a former governor-general, which once occupied pride of place in Kolkata’s Government House, now sits in a backyard in rural England.

caravanmagazine.in

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4 years

I have an academic joke, but you won't be able to read it for three years because it's undergoing peer review.

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I have a history joke, but it’s aged badly

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This pic of Amitabh Bachchan's visit to Leicester in 1990 is wild. Incredible.

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4 years

@ishaantharoor Thanks, Ishaan. I seem to have united the entirety of south Indian twitter against me.

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A few pictures of Jawaharlal #Nehru around his time at Trinity College, Cambridge, on the 129th anniversary of his birth. He referred to his undergraduate days as "three quiet years... moving slowly on like the sluggish Cam".

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In awe of this man - who spent 8 hours under an immigration enforcement van to stop it from moving - and the people of Glasgow, who banded together and refused to let the police and Home Office kidnap two men from their community. #RefugeesWelcome #GlasgowSaysLetThemGo

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My son has lived under 3 different Prime Ministers. He is three months old. I was 13 years old until the same was true for me.

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3 years

Putting together the reading list for a new second-year history undergraduate module I'm launching next year: 'Migration, Diaspora & the Making of Modern Britain.' Alongside these classics, what absolutely must be on the list? Books/articles/blogs/source suggestions all welcome!

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Many replies reveal not just bigotry but a worrying - and often causative - lack of understanding of two areas: 1) The history of British colonialism 2) The history of South Asian communities in Britain This is why decolonisation must go well beyond removing & renaming things.

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2 years

Not sure who will find this more offensive... Italians or Indians?

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4 years

Some news: very happy (and feeling extremely lucky) to share that I'll soon be joining @NorthumbriaUni as Lecturer in History. @NorthumbriaHist is a brilliant, dynamic department full of fantastic colleagues and I can't wait to get started.

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Another blinder from @Cambridge_Uni VC Prof Toope in today's letter to The Times. He totally gets that the #USSstrike is about marketisation & not just pensions. Exciting possibilities to where we go from here...

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6 years

. @the_hindu commemorative front page from 15 August 1947 - 71 years ago today! #HappyIndependenceDay #IndependenceDayIndia

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3 years

This response, which I originally thought was satire, gives a sense of the problem.

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Just treated myself to this 1924 Bombay guidebook, published exactly 100 years ago. As you can tell from the map at the back, the city has changed rather a lot since it was written!

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3 years

Benedict Anderson: The Man Who Imagined Communities.

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What a subtitle.

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Edward Anderson

@edanderson101

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Have they tried turning it off and on again?

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Edward Anderson

@edanderson101

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Latest project...

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Edward Anderson

@edanderson101

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'Indian Son Rises Over The Empire' - one of many jubilant Indian headlines. Just hours later, Sunak reappointed Suella Braverman as Home Secretary. She recently said “I am proud of the British Empire", and has soured India-UK relations with her draconian stance on immigration.

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