Uttara
uttara.bsky.social
Uttara
@uttara.bsky.social
Historian of borders, migration, and refugees in Modern South Asia and the British Empire. Sindhis.
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I’m thrilled to finally share my article on citizenship, caste, and exit control at the time of the India-Pakistan partition out now on first view in Modern Asian Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians
Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core
Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit
www.cambridge.org
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Professor Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge) will give a lecture entitled Dislocated Families: Women, War, and Migrations in French India during the Age of Revolutions.

For more information and to register for the event, please visit our website:

www.asmcf.org/news/sixteen...
Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2026 | ASMCF
Sixteenth Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture in French History
www.asmcf.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The Introduction to my book OCCUPIED REFUGE is now freely available online: bit.ly/482e3i1

Book will be out 17 Feb 2026 but you can pre-order now:

In the Americas: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...

Outside of America: mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803313...

Get 30% off with this promo code: E26BRNKM
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Please join us for the next session of the Joint Center for History & Economics seminar (in person and on Zoom) on Fri 21 Nov at 12pm EST. @malickghachem.bsky.social (MIT) will discuss 'Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue & the Debt of France. Click for further information and Zoom link.
MALICK GHACHEM
Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France
histecon.fas.harvard.edu
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Join us online, at 2.30pm this afternoon, for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN

Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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'The science select committee should recognise that its remit covers all of research, and conduct an inquiry into the Library, with a view to helping it recover. It could quantify the funding that is needed to properly rebuild the Library’s digital infrastructure'.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Anyone seeing a Cloudflare outage atm?
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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👋 Hi Bluesky!

The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate.

Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/
School of Advanced Study
Uniting research institutes and centres at the University of London to form the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of academic research in the humanities.
sas.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I am thrilled to be the new #ASLH president, receiving the gavel yesterday from former president Barbara Welke at our Detroit conference awards ceremony. My term is 2025-27. Excited to get to work! #legalhistory
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Going to lecture my class today with my entire wardrobe on.
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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📣 CFP British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2026 -- "Alternate Histories of the Body"

I'm very excited to be organising this together with Lloyd Maedhbh Houston! 🥳 Send us your abstracts by November 21! #academicsky #callforpapers #literatureandscience
Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium January 30th 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body – The British Society for Literature and Science
www.bsls.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...
PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by ERC - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - RHS
PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by European Research Council Call for Applications, deadline - 1 March 2026 This is a call for expressions of interest for a European Research Council-fund...
royalhistsoc.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Such sad news to hear that Geoffrey Bindman KC has passed away. One of the architects of UK equality and human rights law, he was an inspirational figure - as well as being kind & extremely good company. www.bindmans.com/news-insight...
In remembrance of Sir Geoffrey Bindman | Bindmans
We are very sorry to announce the death of our founder, Sir Geoffrey Bindman on 4 November 2025 at the age of 92.
www.bindmans.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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“In the regime we live in today, thinking freely itself is perilous”

Activist-author Anand Teltumbde in an interview with Kavitha Iyer reflects on the price he paid, and on preserving his critical consciousness over 31 months in jail
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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New password must contain 16 characters???? In this economy?????
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Our latest “Document of the Week”, chosen by our Editor, Nishah Malik, is an article from 1915 depicting Indian soldiers who served in the British Army during the First World War.
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Bakerloo line extension, please.
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Aftab Pureval, the son of a Punjabi immigrant and a Tibetan refugee, beating JD Vance’s brother is the kind of desi-coded schafenfreude that will keep me going for months 🤣😂

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Aftab Pureval wins reelection as Cincinnati mayor, defeating JD Vance’s relative
Aftab Pureval won reelection as mayor of Cincinnati on Tuesday, defeating Cory Bowman, a Republican who is Vice President JD Vance’s half-brother.
www.pbs.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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It is a low bar possibly, but seeing a politician win, especially a significant win, by galvanising disenfranchised voters on a platform of unity, compassion and hope, a platform which supported marginalised groups such as migrants and trans/non-binary individuals, feels pretty important right now.
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Yup
The "why do you care so much about the NY mayoral election" takes strike me as pretty obtuse. The world's sole superpower is being taken over by fascists, and this was part of the struggle to define what the opposition to that will look like. That obviously has major implications for all of us?
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Bad commute this morning but dhoom machale is getting me through it 👌
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Very much looking forward to speaking about my book 'Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception' on the Equality Talks series next Tuesday 11 November 2025 @5pm UK time, 6:00pm CET. For details and to join:

academy-humanrights.uni-koeln.de/en/news/equa...
Equality Talks
academy-humanrights.uni-koeln.de
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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My book Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy is out with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. It has been shaped by the support of a great community of scholars - grateful for generous endorsements from
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social

Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Or an interface like this. Brilliant collection but why this way. nehruselectedworks.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM