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2 months

In which I dwell on how a more historically accurate #Heeramandi might have looked, with the little I know about courtesans in pre-1947 Lahore. Thanks to Neelam Raaj for the invitation.

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Radha

@RadhaKapuria

2 years

That indescribable moment when, after multiple iterations, you stare at your very final book cover. @OxUniPress Coming 🔜 in late 2022, watch this space for more! Image: Maharaja Sher Singh & Companions Watching a Dance Performance, c1850, Artist Unknown. San Diego Museum of Art.

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

Releasing 📆 30 March 2023 🥳 The 1st social history of musicians and dancers across undivided Punjab 🇮🇳🇵🇰 featuring a wide cast- from tawa’if to mirasis, kanjris to kalawants, & from Maharajas & Sahibs to Bibis & Ustads 📚🎼📕 📩DM now to pre-order your copy. #AcademicTwitter

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

The proofs have arrived (!): it is now beginning to feel *really* real. @OUPAcademic @OUPHistory

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@RadhaKapuria

3 years

Just signed the final contract with @OxUniPress for my book on "Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards & Connoisseurs, 1800-1947": landing 2022! Based on research @kingsmusicdept @kingshistory w/ @katherineschof8 @jonewilson funded @commschols @ihr_history Cannot wait!

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

Academic Twitter: I am putting together an introductory course on Gender, Caste & Community in South Asia, c. 1750-1950. What are some of your favourite books, articles, movies, songs, podcasts? Grateful for recommendations 😄📚

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

Image 1 - Books all neatly stacked up📚 Image 2 - Stupidly happy first time author face 😉 ✍🏽 #BookTwitter #AcademicTwitter #punjab #history #music #UndividedPunjab

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

📍Deadline extended: 22 Jan📍 🎶The Travelling Female Performer: Mobility & Agency in South Asia & Beyond, c. 1760-1940💃🏽 We seek papers that will explore links between travel, mobility & power for female performers during the broad colonial period. Apply:

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@RadhaKapuria

4 years

I can personally testify to what a great resource the Lahore Museum is for historians and scholars of South Asia. Some real treasures!

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

📣 It’s FINALLY here! My book is now available to read on Google Play in the UK 🇬🇧, and on Amazon/Kindle in India 🇮🇳 & the US 🇺🇸. For a sneak peak into some gorgeous colour images, click “Look Inside” on the icon #AcademicTwitter #History #Punjab Links to shop below 👇🏽 🧵/1

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

New workplace views @durham_history - first day today as Assistant Professor- still feels incredible. Thinking of all the fantastic, inspiring SA historians I had the privilege of studying with in Delhi & then in London-in a journey that began more than a decade ago. #FullCircle

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

After 3 marvellous years at @unishefhistory with super mentors & colleagues including @s_lamberthurley @WritingHelena @JulieVGottlieb @Pseudo_Isidore , I’m thrilled to be joining @durham_history this Fall. Excited to work on SA history w/ @Jonathan_Saha #ChrisBahl @durham_uni /1

Durham History

@durham_history

2 years

We are delighted to announce that we have appointed Dr Radha Kapuria ( @RadhaKapuria ) as our new Assistant Professor in South Asian History! (2/3)

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@RadhaKapuria

7 months

Just 1 week until the Delhi launch of “Music in Colonial Punjab”- in the city where it all began, with my MPhil at JNU 10 years ago. Delhi is my home, but it is so much more than that, it is a piece of my heart… 1/3

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

MY book finally has a home on the @OUPHistory website. Publishers have pushed 🇮🇳 release to April, w/ availability in 🇬🇧 slated for May. For now, it’s a high to know the book exists *out there*, in some form! I’ll share more details as soon as I have them.

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@RadhaKapuria

4 years

Very pleased (and relieved!) to share that this article on Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh, and the courtesans and musicians at his Lahore court is finally published in the March 2020 issue of Modern Asian Studies. Please inbox me if you cannot access this.

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

Very excited about this new module; handbook almost fully complete! @durham_history

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@RadhaKapuria

6 months

On the eve of the Delhi book launch, my publishers @OUPAcademic gave me the happy news that the book has *sold out* & gone into its second print run! Thankyou to all those who bought a copy, for showering it with so much love, despite the high price tag (out of my hands, sadly).

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

TMW the much awaited “Unboxing” of your first cache of author copies of your very first book coincides with a summer party and ends up happening to the weirdest new age Punjabi music blaring in the background 😆🎶💃🏽 #bookstagram #firsttime #academia #punjab #history

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@RadhaKapuria

5 years

I will be doing this on 19 October! #ShutMyMouthToo #StandWithKashmir

Kannan Gopinathan

@naukarshah

5 years

All who feel that we need to stand by our fellow citizens, let's tape our mouth on 19th Oct, that is 75 days of this, for 75 minutes or any time we are comfortable, gather at any place, or do it individually. Do we have even 10 concerned citizens? #ShutMyMouthToo #RegainYourVoice

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@RadhaKapuria

11 months

RIP Prof Kavita Singh 💔: “his end was still untimely, undeserved and unjust…Perhaps that is why almost all the men who are here in this funeral procession have had their heads tonsured…they have also all become sons who have been rendered fatherless.”

In an 18th-century Pahari painting of Dasratha’s funeral, vast vistas of echoing emptiness

Many instances in the history of Indian art deal empathetically with grief but nothing quite equals the elegiac quality of this Ramayana.

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

My article on the cultural/musical significance of river waters in Punjab, with Naresh Kumar, is now published @southasiajsas @tandfonline With thanks to @DrPriyankaBasu @kamamaclean @unishefhistory @durham_uni @durham_history #EcologicalHistory #Music

Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore

This paper traces the centrality of rivers in twentieth-century and contemporary popular music and poetry in the regional context of Punjab in the north-west of the subcontinent. In contrast to the...

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@RadhaKapuria

3 months

New publication 🙂Delighted to have contributed a chapter to the volume *Punjabi Centuries* edited by Prof. Anshu Malhotra. Full details available at the link below 👇🏽

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@RadhaKapuria

3 months

A unique honour to write this piece for @TheQuint -an attempt to place the legendary Amar Singh Chamkila- slain at 27 in 1988- within the wider arc of cultural history in Punjab, where music meets morality. (sharing again with direct access to the link):

Amar Singh Chamkila: Sensuality, Violence & Musical Creativity In Punjab

Imtiaz Ali’s film brings to the fore the curiously intertwined nature of music, morality, and politics in Punjab.

www.thequint.com

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@RadhaKapuria

7 months

Friends in Delhi, beyond thrilled to launch my book @kunzum GK2 on 27 December, with reflections from the brilliant @saeedyousuf @srishtipandey88 and Aaradhana Kohli @IAWRT_India . Please come and celebrate with me? 😄🙂

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

@SansyG So thrilling to see all the gorgeous books on here. Here’s mine - on a cultural and social history of musicians and dancers in colonial Punjab- to be published in late 2022 with @OxUniPress

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@RadhaKapuria

2 months

Most astute take on Chamkila so far, excellent, in-depth analysis:

Was Chamkila the voice of Dalits and the working class? Movie vs reality

Ever since the biopic Amar Singh Chamkila, directed by Bollywood filmmaker Imtiaz Ali released last month, the yesteryear singer from Punjab has once again hit

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

A magical Saturday @britishlibrary on Punjab’s qissa traditions (Hir Ranjha, Sohni Mahiwal) thru collections @BL_IndianPrint & the place of rivers in Punjab w/ Hernoor Grewal #GrewalTwins & a great audience ! #rivers #folklore #Tbt @BL_Learning @BLSoundHeritage @BL_WorldTrad

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

Happy to share this piece I wrote for Punjab’s historic newspaper, The Tribune @thetribunechd , a newspaper I have used extensively in my 10+ years of research on the region’s musical histories; with thanks to @sarikaksharma for the opportunity.

How Partition impacted musical legacies in India and Pakistan

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

A massively enjoyable semester of teaching @durham_history @durham_uni comes to a close - with some exceptional students @durhist_student ! The thrill of designing and leading your own modules (on caste, gender)- esp. when students are such engaged co-participants-is incredible!

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@RadhaKapuria

5 months

The joy of spotting your book next to your PhD supervisor’s @katherineschof8 @Bahrisons_books Ironically, placed next to a recent book on Savarkar by Prof #JanakiBakhle , whose first book was on music, too.

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

This panel for ECSAS 2023 explores links b/w travel, mobility & power for female performers in the broad colonial period (1760-1940), for a dialogue across history, ethnomusicology, literature, politics, and art history. CfP opens 15 Nov, closes 15 Jan 23.

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@RadhaKapuria

6 months

Finally a book signing at @Bahrisons_books in Khan Market, home for many years to my dad and granddad’s famous veterinary (Dr Kapuria’s Dogs and Cats) clinic. This one will be extra special. Hope many of you in Delhi can join me! @OUPHistory @OUPAcademic

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@RadhaKapuria

5 months

Durham South Asianists & @NESouthAsia invite you to a reading group next Thurs 29 Feb. We will be reading *Merchants of Virtue* by @dillivali Pls email nesouthasia @gmail .com for the Zoom link. The book is available to read for free: @durham_history

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@RadhaKapuria

4 months

Delighted to have won the Global Curriculum Award for #DurhamGlobalWeek - as a team led by @Jonathan_Saha , myself, #ChrisBahl , #OrientalMuseum curators @RachelBarclay13 @ramsay_gill & @behindthespines @DU_Collections ! On our new module “South Asia: Texts, Artefacts, Empires.”

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@RadhaKapuria

6 years

In London next Sunday 9th September? Let's catch up over tales of musicians and beautiful dancers! Thrilled to be speaking on music in 19th century Lahore, esp. Maharaja Ranjit Singh's patronage of female cross-dressing dancers. #EmpireoftheSikhs Register:

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@RadhaKapuria

4 years

Did you know Maharaja Ranjit Singh loved the flute? Sneak preview of my last gig for a while: Mon, 21 Sept.@ 5pm (UK) for @UKPHA Images: British Museum, SDMA & MFA Boston. Music: Raga Brindabani Sarang, Pt Chaurasia, Music Today. Link for registration:

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@RadhaKapuria

5 months

Tomorrow afternoon @Bahrisons_books in the Delhi market where my grandfather, the late Dr Pushkar Raj Kapuria and then my dad, the late Dr Rajiv Kapuria ran their veterinary practice for decades, from the 1960s until 2017. Can’t wait! 🙂😃 @OUPHistory @OUPAcademic

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@RadhaKapuria

4 years

Thrilled to be in conversation with my friend @priyaatwal next Weds 22 July@ 5pm, for the 1st ever #SouthAsianHeritageMonth We'll be exchanging tales of powerful women @MaharajaRanjitSingh 's Lahore court. Register here: All welcome! @SAHM_UK @McrMuseum

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@RadhaKapuria

3 months

An external South Asianist visitor to the University is a good excuse for some of us Durham South Asianists to gather around! @RachelBarclay13 @anniezaidi @jhowesuk

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

That moment when the arrival of your books 📚 coincides with a massive summer garden party with all your loved ones around you 🥰💚🎈🎶💖

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@RadhaKapuria

4 years

Join us tomorrow for tales of courtesans like Bibi Moran, Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s wife, who apparently danced like a peacock or a “Mor”. Sign up here: . (Image courtesy, British Museum, early 19th century).

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

Final week @unishefhistory ! 3 full years since I began my @LeverhulmeTrust post @sheffielduni fun times with @s_lamberthurley @JulieVGottlieb @Pseudo_Isidore @carolinepennock @WritingHelena @thesillywonka . Will really miss Steel City, esp. our lovely JW office @ClaireBurridge3

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@RadhaKapuria

5 months

Book Signing at @Bahrisons_books (Khan Market) yesterday! A most memorable and joyous February afternoon in Delhi 📕✍🏽📚😋 #academia #firsttimeauthor @OUPAcademic @OUPHistory

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@RadhaKapuria

3 years

🎶Excited to be hosting this online @sheffielduni @unishefhistory with Vebhuti Duggal @AUD_Delhi Great papers on Punjab’s Sounds historically across 🇵🇰 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 - beyond stereotypes, using sound to engage w/ region, nation, transnation, technology & affect. Register now! 🎶

Punjab Sounds

@PunjabSounds

3 years

You know bhangra, but do you know about the kavishris? 📢Join us to tune into Punjab's sounds🎧 from 📅August 16-18, 2021, to find out more. Register here -

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@RadhaKapuria

2 months

We are thrilled to welcome @Dil_afruzi @Cambridge_Uni for our #SouthAsia seminar @DurhamIAS @durham_uni in exactly 1 month. She’ll discuss regions & gender in key erotological texts from the 19thC. + earlier. All welcome! @NESouthAsia @DrMeghani @durham_history @IMEMSDurham

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

Not the most prosperous time to commit to life in 🇬🇧, and I am proud to have messed up at least 1 answer where I confused James II with Charles II, but here we are 🥳

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

New staff profile is now live!

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

Eid Mubarak and Chaand Raat greetings to all celebrating! 🌙

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@RadhaKapuria

9 months

New publication on South Asian music enthusiasts in London, featuring some of the nicest people I have had the pleasure of knowing. Dedicated to the late Firdous Ali. During my time as @LeverhulmeTrust ECR @unishefhistory @s_lamberthurley @durham_history

Strains of friendship: post-partition rāgadārī music publics in London

How is cross-cultural communication around music in the British Asian diaspora shaped by the Partition of 1947? This article will discuss this question through a case study of the writings and rela...

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

Grateful to @WomensVoicesMCR for hosting my book launch along with the book of @zahid4Labour on Monday 24 July 4:30 pm @MancLibraries Central Library for @SAHM_UK . Beyond honoured that @Yasmine_Dar the first female South Asian Lord Mayor of Manchester will be the chief guest 🙂

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@RadhaKapuria

3 months

My two bits on Chamkila, or for a “Hot Take” on @TheQuint - grateful for an opportunity to place “Punjab’s Elvis” within a longer historical trajectory going back to colonial Punjab.

Amar Singh Chamkila: Sensuality, Violence & Musical Creativity In Punjab

Imtiaz Ali’s film brings to the fore the curiously intertwined nature of music, morality, and politics in Punjab.

www.thequint.com

Quint Neon

@QuintNeon

3 months

" #ImtiazAli ’s #AmarSinghChamkila brings to the fore the curiously intertwined nature of music, morality & politics in Punjab. Chamkila’s lifestory & music are part of the gendered & caste-inflected nature of Punjabi music-making," writes @RadhaKapuria .

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@RadhaKapuria

6 years

This coming Sunday, 3pm @SOAS . I promise to entertain you with tales from the quirky history of music in undivided Punjab, esp Ranjit Singh's famed contingent of warrior female dancers. Pls tag/ share with those interested! #GirlPower #EmpireOftheSikhs

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

This Saturday, @tribalgulabo and I delve deep into Partition’s music memories for @karwaanheritage with @hussainsadaf1 @iameshansharma_ on their YouTube page at 5PM India/4:30PM Pakistan/ 12:30pm UK time.

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@RadhaKapuria

3 years

Did you know the 1st painted images of the #tabla are of Pahari women playing it? Thrilled to present some fledgling research into the long history of Punjab’s drumming women, this coming Tuesday Aug 17th for the @PunjabSounds colloquium. #girlpower #southasianheritagemonth

Punjab Sounds

@PunjabSounds

3 years

You know of Punjab’s male Dhol players, but do you know the history of its powerful drumming women? Join us on Day 2, Aug. 17 to trace the history of female Dhol(ak), Pakhawaj & Tabla playing with @RadhaKapuria & others. #SouthAsianHeritageMonth Register:

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@RadhaKapuria

11 months

To mark the Independence Days of 🇮🇳🇵🇰 I am giving away a FREE signed copy of my book to 1 lucky winner! 🎁📗📕 Because 'Azaadi' also means the freedom to access knowledge (despite exorbitant publisher prices!) :) 🚩To enter, simply RT by 11.59 pm today (UK only)🚩 #bookgiveaway

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@RadhaKapuria

2 months

I am excited to have an Instalive conversation with the superlative @manishgaekwad We’ll discuss his mother’s lifestory, reflect on stories of courtesans in the Bambai-Kalkatta network in the 1970s/80s, & 19th c./early 20th c. Lahauri courtesans. I hope many of you can join us!

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@RadhaKapuria

3 months

For our next 'Pedagogies of Dispossession' SA event @durham_uni , @DrMeghani , #ChrisBahl #StephenAshe & I are are thrilled to be hosting @churnjeet & @RKDasgupta for an exploration of desi queer collectives & culture in 1980s-'90s🇬🇧. Fri 24 May at 2 pm! @DurhamIAS @NESouthAsia

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@RadhaKapuria

5 months

Such a lovely time speaking about my book & the Mirasinamah (1891) @csdsdelhi this past Friday. I had the best chair/respondent in #NareshKumar with sharp, stimulating questions from students & experts like #RaviKant , #ShikhaJhingan , #VebhutiDuggal & @shii_vani . I feel so lucky!

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

‼️Good news 🚨 friends in India 🇮🇳 - my book is NOW available at the discounted price of ₹1492 for the e-book (which includes images in colour) and for ₹1795 for the hard copy. Click below to order 👇🏽 #booksof2023 #History #music #punjab #AcademicTwitter

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@RadhaKapuria

4 months

A story that has brought so much “rang”-joy & colour-to me and my family since 2019. Finally found a moment to share it with the world. Holi Mubarak everyone❣️🌈 The colour of hope, of discovery, of 🩷& continuing legacies. May the happy colours always overshadow the sad ones !

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@RadhaKapuria

4 months

Full house today @NorthumbriaUni for a fantastic talk for @NESouthAsia on the travelling ayah, caregiving & British imperialism by the brilliant @migrationhist , organised by @edanderson101 Great to see many faces- both new & old @Malya_B @Jonathan_Saha #DarakhshanKhan & others

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

1 Month to go until this fabulous musical dialogue across the 3 Punjabs: Chaar Yaar in Delhi, Marifat Sufi Band in Lahore, and the Grewal Twins in London. On 5 August, 2-4 pm UK/ 6:30-8:30 pm IST, over Zoom. Register below to attend (FREE admission):

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

Today!

Centre for Historical and Literary Research

@thisischlr

1 year

On 17th May, 2023 CHLR is organising a lecture on “The History of Music in Punjab” by Dr. @RadhaKapuria Join us! #History #modernhistory #Historia #India #Cannes2023 #ACADEMIC #ChampionsLeague #music #MusicaInternacional #COLDPLAYinKL #historyteacher

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1 year

Photos that make your day. A friend #ManavKapur spotted my book @Bahrisons_books store in Delhi's Khan Market, just a few stops from the location of my Dadaji’s and dad’s veterinary clinic (1960-2017). A strange, glorious feeling! "Kaleje nu thand mili!", as they say in Punjabi!

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@RadhaKapuria

13 days

Such a high to celebrate our fantastic graduands today with the best colleagues @durham_history 1 of those rare days when the value of education and of the Humanities was wholeheartedly re-affirmed. So proud of my amazing students 👏🏽 who produced top class research on South Asia!

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@RadhaKapuria

9 months

One week too late, but here are some photos of the most incredible academic book launch last Thursday @durham_uni @durham_history @rasadurham

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@RadhaKapuria

4 years

In conversation about borders and musicians in Punjab with the Grewal twins tonight at 8:30 pm GMT on Instagram Live, as we approach the eve of South Asian Independence/Partition on 14-15 August. @unishefhistory @tuosmusic @SAHM_UK @UKPHA @priyaatwal

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@RadhaKapuria

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🎵🎶Upcoming talk on Maharaja Ranjit Singh's patronage & powerful use of musicians & sword-bearing dancers @ his 19th century Lahore court. *Monday, 21 September, 5pm GMT on Zoom* I'll be sharing exciting new images, so do tune in. You can register for the link via @UKPHA

UK Punjab Heritage Association

@UKPHA

4 years

An exciting line-up of talks in September at the UKPHA bookclub. Taking you backwards in time from WW2, WW1, Ranjit Singh and then we finish the month by Walking with Nanak. As ever register at Who would you like to hear from in October ?

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@RadhaKapuria

2 years

✊🏽 such good news!

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@EditorRajan

2 years

Like every time we can proudly say that "We have Rana". When people read you, they will say that Rana is also a name for struggle and courage.✊🏽🇮🇳 Congrats @RanaAyyub 💫

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Thanks to Neelam Raaj for the opportunity to write this. In today’s Sunday TOI. Voices : Heeramandi’s stereotyped courtesan world is a missed opportunity

Heeramandi’s stereotyped courtesan world is a missed opportunity

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s new show was a wonderful chance to fictionalise the powerful cultural legacy of courtesans: be it Mah Laqa Bai Chanda (d.1824) of Hyderabad who was the first female Urdu poet;...

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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@RadhaKapuria

1 year

🏷️💯My book is currently on offer at a massive 60% discount from the exorbitant original price. “Used like new” copies for £36 or “brand new” ones for £54. I’d recommend the “used like new” since I still await the hard copies! Click here for a copy👇🏽

Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800-1947

This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the Patiala royal darbar. It unearths new...

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@RadhaKapuria

5 months

Such an honour to be on this fantastic panel led by Prof Partho Datta @HistoryLitFest - where we discussed everything from gharanas, ragon ki tasir, to Ustads & Pandits, Tawai’fs & Kalawants sarangi vs harmonium, khayal vs dhrupad, & beautiful musical examples by Radhika Joshi.

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@HistoryLitFest Music History: Radhika Joshi and Radha Kapuria @RadhaKapuria in conversation with Partho Datta.

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Finally here! Musical Concert of 5 August on #PartitionsMusicalLegacies with poetry on 1947: ‘Hariya’ @MadanGo45566955 , ‘Soṅ Jaa Mere Malka’, 'Ajj Akhan Waris Shah Nu' (Amrita Pritam) @GrewalTwins & 18th c. Bulleh Shah's 'Jogi De Naal' @marifatsufiband 🎼

Partition's Musical Legacies- Part 2, Concert

To mark 75 years of the 1947 Partition, in collaboration with The British Library, Dr Radha Kapuria (Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Sheffiel...

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Absolute honour to speak about my work on musicians in the Patiala archives to the students, faculty & VC @PbiUniPatiala . Thank you @daljitami for hosting us, offering a space for collaboration with @durham_uni @durham_history & such a rich dialogue with my mentor #NareshKumar

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ਐਜੂਕੇਸ਼ਨਲ ਮਲਟੀਮੀਡੀਆ ਰਿਸਰਚ ਸੈਂਟਰ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਯੂਨੀਵਰਸਿਟੀ ਦੇ ਕੁੱਝ ਵਿਭਾਗਾਂ ਦੇ ਸਹਿਯੋਗ ਨਾਲ਼ ਕਰਵਾਏ ਗਏ ਪ੍ਰੋਗਰਾਮ ਵਿੱਚ ਦਰਹੈਮ ਯੂਨੀਵਰਸਿਟੀ ਤੋਂ ਰਾਧਾ ਕਪੂਰੀਆ ਨੇ ਪਟਿਆਲਾ ਰਿਆਸ�� ਦੀ ਸਰਪ੍ਰਸਤੀ ਦੇ ਹਵਾਲੇ ਨਾਲ਼ ਸੰਗੀਤਕਾਰਾਂ ਦੇ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਬਾਰੇ ਗੱਲ ਕੀਤੀ। ਕੁੱਝ ਤਸਵੀਰਾਂ: @arvind_iiserm @daljitami @emrcpatiala @durham_uni

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Congratulations to my awesome friend Dr Sonia Wigh @Dil_afruzi for winning the prestigious Bayly Prize 2022 for her PhD @UniofExeter on “The Body of Words: A Social History of Sex & the Body in early modern South Asia”, so well deserved! Check out also:

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New blog post: Events and Awards gives details of recent lectures, book launches and medal awards. It also announces the winner of 2022 Bayly Prize. Congratulations to Sonia Wigh @Dil_afruzi

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Really looking forward to this tomorrow @durham_history - glad to be in such excellent company!

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Looking forward to our research seminar tomorrow @durham_history on new books in the department! Weds 21 Feb 3–4.30pm PG20 🥳🌟📚 + ☕️🍪

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And to @RachelBarclay13 @ramsay_gill and @behindthespines at the Oriental Museum and Palace Green Special Collections with whom we jointly won this award! @durhist_student @NESouthAsia

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Huge congratulations to @RadhaKapuria , Chris Bahl, and Jonathan Saha for winning the @durham_uni Global Curriculum Award for their Level 1 module on South Asia which uses artefacts from the Oriental Museum and the Palace Green Special Collections. 🎉 @DUThingsToDo @DU_Collections

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Glimpses from a masterful lecture by @anniezaidi @READEnglish this evening @durham_uni chaired by #DrShamiraMeghani Full of tasty (and not-so-tasty) tales about witches, consumption, and food in South Asia. Perfect way to kickstart the 2024 events for @NESouthAsia !

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Can online repositories of music help subvert the borders of 1947? Thrilled for this event in Sheffield @MigMatFest Thurs, 23 June, 6:30-8pm. South Asian music, digitisation & heritage across the Indo-Pak border- with live music to follow. @SaareyMusic @tuosmusic @unishefhistory

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Such a joy to finally meet the brilliant writer @manishgaekwad : full fangirl moment ! Watch this space for our very own ‘Tawaifmandi’ chat, coming soon. Waiting for the day we can host Manish @durham_history @durhist_student for a chat with our students on courtesan histories.

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Just chatted with @RadhaKapuria , a historian of gender & culture at Durham University. Radha also writes astutely on music, courtesans, poets, waghera-waghera. We are plotting our version of Tawaifmandi - her expert research, my experience (as a lacklustre tawaif). Coming soon.

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My friend Dr @rajpal_shilpi has published her book on the history of insanity in colonial north India (10 years’ hard labour across 🇮🇳🇵🇰) So imp. to break mental health taboos in SA, talk about #insanity & the long #history to cure it! Grab your copy now:

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10 days today, Squeeks, since you left us for your onwards journey - and we cannot fathom just how we are able to continue functioning in a world without you. Each moment with you, soaked in love, and an affection we didn’t know our hearts possessed. 🐱❤️‍🩹🧵/1 @EconAbhishek

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Thanks to Siddharth Mehrotra @indicanews1 for this generous book review 🙏🏽

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Book Review: Radha Kapuria’s ‘Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs’ #BookReview #ColonialPunjab #JenaMehrotra #music #RadhaKapuria

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Such a thrill to speak to @BBCRadioManc @BBCLancashire about my book today, on #MeetTheAuthor for July, along with Manchester author @zahid4Labour whose second book has just released.

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On this month's #MeetTheAuthor , we have not one, but two talented writers in the studio. Manchester author @zahid4Labour has just released the second instalment of 'The Curry Mile' and @RadhaKapuria has released her book 'Music in Colonial Punjab'. 🔊

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Beyond heartbroken - the most inspiring Prof Kavita Singh is gone way too soon. Rest in peace, Mam. We had so much still to learn from you.

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There will never, ever be as kind and strong a person as her in the halls of Indian academia again. Your sharpest scholarship and your affection for your students will forever live with us, Professor Kavita Singh.

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Looking forward to the book launch this coming Monday at 5 at Manchester central library - grateful for the book’s endorsement by these fantastic scholars, whose work has inspired me so much! @OUPAcademic @OUPHistory @OUPMusic @SAHM_UK @ManchesterSAHM @WomensVoicesMCR

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Overwhelmed (overjoyed!) with the Twittersphere response to my piece on Ranjit Singh and music. I've now uploaded the preprint version submitted to MAS on my website 👩‍💻 available for downloading under ‘Research’ and publications. Please read and share!🙏

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Some days are blessed with an extraordinary generosity of spirit & moments of grace-both small & grand. Yesterday’s launch @MancLibraries organised by #NadiaSiddiqui & @WomensVoicesMCR was 1 such. So lucky that the 1st SA woman @LordMayorOfMcr launched our books @thezahidhussain

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Mind-bending music for @SAHM_UK 🎼 Poems on 1947 set 2 music 4 the 1st time @chaaryaar 🇮🇳, Bulleh Shah qawwali @marifatsufiband 🇵🇰 & modern+Sufi songs by GrewalTwins 🇬🇧 Booked your place yet? @soundarchive @britishlibrary @LeverhulmeTrust @UniShefEngage #partitionsmusicalegacies

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Witnessing a weird, scary & alienating mix of hooliganism & white supremacy-sat amidst loud & drunk football fans on a severely packed train from Manchester-only 2 hours long, it’s the longest journey ever. Never before felt this level of vulnerability-as a woman of colour.

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Our panel “The Travelling Female Performer in South Asia” is now open & welcoming abstract submissions! Final Deadline: January 15, 2023; Decisions by end February 2023. Apply via (Paper title > 150 characters, abstract > 1500 characters). @jhowesuk

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This panel for ECSAS 2023 explores links b/w travel, mobility & power for female performers in the broad colonial period (1760-1940), for a dialogue across history, ethnomusicology, literature, politics, and art history. CfP opens 15 Nov, closes 15 Jan 23.

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Thanks to @DurhamIAS & along with South Asia colleagues @durham_uni #ShamiraMeghani #ChrisBahl #StephenAshe I’m thrilled to share that on 23 Apr @jhowesuk will speak on the EIC, art & propaganda, using material from the @DU_Collections Part of our @NESouthAsia calendar for 2024

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Book signing @Bahrisons_books Khan Market postponed from tomorrow 1 February to Saturday 3rd February at 3 pm. (Publishers were waiting for newly released stock from the second print, hence the delay.) Friends in Delhi, hope I can meet some of you there!

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PhD rejections 0 PhD acceptances -JNU -KCL -SOAS -Manchester I’d barely applied elsewhere (considered York-Canada & Michigan in the US, but ultimately chose the UK). I was lucky to have the best mentors who worked v. hard with me on my applications. 10 years later, I am 🫠

pasha m khan نہیں مانتا 🍉

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PhD rejections UToronto & my mom wrote them an irate letter 🙈 Acceptances UT Austin Genocide-loving Columbia UPenn SOAS where i wanted to go study Punjabi lit with Shackle & use commode & lota which they had in their restrooms 💖 but I had no money 20 years later I’m furniture

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Do you love Bhangra? Have you ever thought critically about sound, history, region and identity? Then this is for you! :D Call for Papers for a workshop (summer 2021) on Affect, Technology & the Aural across Region & Nation. Abstracts Deadline: 1 June 2020

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@PunjabSounds

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Sounds of the dhol, tumbi, bhangra-rap➡️ Punjabi music as pervasive as the Hindi film song. But what do Punjab's sounds "mean"? An exciting new workshop across History & Sound Studies @sheffielduni in 2021. Call for Papers: Abstracts due: ⏲️ 1 June 2020.

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Absolutely crackling talk yesterday by @churnjeet #RohitDasgupta @CBQdesi @DurhamIAS @NESouthAsia on histories of Desi Queers in 1980s/90s 🇬🇧 chaired by @DrMeghani + great Qs from students, made us rethink ‘Pedagogies of Dispossession.’ Excited for their book w/ @somakwa_hist !

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Looking forward to this in London on Saturday !

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Thrilled to be at the History Lit Fest in Pune this February, on a panel with @Radhikagaayika and Prof Partho Datta (JNU).

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Get ready for an unforgettable ride through untold tales and vibrant narratives! @chatterjeearupk @Radhikagaayika @RadhaKapuria @VGokhale59 @UnamPillai @ChinmayTumbe @Karboholic @narayani_basu @KoralDasgupta @tca_raghavan #HistoryLitFest #Pune #2024

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Only 4 weeks to the Durham Launch of *Music in Colonial Punjab*. Excited to speak to Prof @LauraLeante @DrMaryamMirza #DrChristopherBahl @anniezaidi #BuddhadityaBhattacharya #DavindarSingh . Moderator: @AvarnaO @durham_history @MusicDurhamUni @READEnglish @harvardmus @durham_uni

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'Tomb of Sand'-esque moment in reality <3

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92 years old , Rena Verma, from India , reached Rawalpindi her ancestral Towm , after 75 years . The residents of her Mohala, welcomed her with Dhol thumping .

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