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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

11 months

Why is culture of (school/public/police) punishments as spectacle so pervasive in India? My thoughts:

Why is the culture of punishment as spectacle so pervasive in India?

Violence impacts and transforms for a lifetime all those who experience it, commit it and witness it.

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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

1 year

Shri Akhilesh Yadav ji @yadavakhilesh , ex-Chief Minister of U. P. and the National President of @samajwadiparty supported our love marriage and blessed us. We share a vision of social justice & a continuous development of marginalised communities.Thanks to SP leaders for support.

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Arun Kumar

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3 years

Happy to announce that I got the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (also my first grant). It is funding my research on the popular histories of Indian labouring castes (OBCs). Happy to share the trade secrets (DM me for proposal copy) @BritishAcademy_ @UoNHumanities

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

Call for Papers: Writing Global History: Perspectives from the Global South Please apply and circulate.

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

समाजवादी विचारधारा के सबसे अग्रिम नेता और उत्तर प्रदेश के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री, आदरणीय श्री अखिलेश यादव जी @yadavakhilesh हमारे पैतृक क़स्बा Mallawan हरदोई में आयोजित विवाह समारोह में आकर हमें आशीर्वाद दिया। श्री अखीलेश जी हमेशा से मेरे लिए प्रेरणा श्रौत रहें है।

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

Friends, Happy to share my new research on the history of sleep violence under colonialism. How the sleep of colonial British people produced violence against colonised on racial lines. @scroll_in Sleeping Masters, Drowsy Servants: via @scroll_in

Amidst UK heatwave, a reminder of how British colonials exploited ‘punkah-walas’ in India’s summers

Colonial rulers created a cruel regime to keep their workers awake as they slept.

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Arun Kumar

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4 months

Many congratulations JNU student community for making a great presidential choice. I have studied in Europe, UK, and have visited USA, Latin America, & other countries. There is no other JNU in the world. It is perhaps the most global and progressive universities of our times.

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

Scholarship for Dalit Bahujan and Adivasi (SC/ST/OBC) & First generation learners at Oxford University to do a Masters degree. If you have got any questions about UK degrees, please feel free to ask. A commendable initiative by ⁦ @UniofOxford ⁩ 👏

Savitribai Phule Graduate Scholarship - Somerville College Oxford

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

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

My research on the history of working-class nights of Bombay workers is seeing light now. It will be out soon as an open-access chapter in edited vol. The work emerges from my PhD on working-class education and dreams.

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

From love letters to marriage paperwork in 13 years! ये हम आ गये है कहाँ… With Heena @heenaadelhi

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

My living cost at Delhi University in 2007-8 1250/per month for a shared room. 800/per month for tiffin service. 100/per month for a DTC bus pass. 200/per month pocket money. 150/per month phone. It's hard for lower-income families to send their children to study in Delhi now.

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

Sad to read the news of the demise of Professor Ranajit Guha, the founder of Subaltern Studies Collective. I owe much of my use of social history & "history from below" approach to his remarkably insightful writings. We have lost the most brilliant historians of our times.

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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

3 years

70 years of Independence & still no suitable OBC candidate has been found to become Assistant & Associate professor in 2021. And mind you the OBCs form roughly about 50 % per cent of the population. Can someone explain this to me?

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

One of the fascinating autobiographies of a Dalit Intellectual who dealt with caste & class issue in the industrial city of Bombay. Usually the two are seen as very different categories, but how they interacted in individuals’ lives is shown here brilliantly. A fascinating read

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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

11 months

This is the time when a lot of university students would be leaving their homes/villages to start their university journey. This perhaps is the most exciting journeys of the life. Here I am leaving my village in Uttar Pradesh to attend college in Delhi University.

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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

4 years

I never passed their final round with the high table dinner in the 'great' Taj hotel. I must say that I wasn't the most polished guy in the room. The whole process was awkward for me because I stayed at a friend's chawl and then went to the grand Taj for the dinner and interview

Adil Hossain

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4 years

After reading 'Merit Must Fall', the brilliant review of @ajanthasub book by @SnehaK20 , I am curious on these three things, A. What are the numbers of SC, ST & OBC students selected for Rhodes Scholarship in the last two decades (2000-2019)? @rhodes_trust @nandankamath

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

Teaching is hard work. Hours go in preparing a 45 minute class. It requires kindness, high degree of empathy, and passion. And when you try to combine it with research and family commitments, one could go nuts. Three years on the job as a teacher, as a historian, as a son.

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Arun Kumar

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We had the pleasure of meeting Mr Akhilesh Yadav ji @yadavakhilesh who gave an unprecedented result in the UP. We discussed a vision of developed, inclusive, and powerful India. Presented him the works of Ambedkar & Harishankar Parsai (अपनी अपनी बीमारी). @heenaadelhi

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

From reading history together in Delhi University & getting drenched in Delhi rains to making history together & avoiding rains in the UK. With @heenaadelhi

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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

7 months

Took 10 years to find the right wall for these… I came to Delhi University in 2007 from my village with a bag of clothes & a quilt. DU was a cultural shock in every sense. Changed my medium from Hindi to English. Topped the University. My native home wall now Frames byManish🙏

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Arun Kumar

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4 years

In the autumn, going to offer this brand new course at Nottingham University. Global Histories of Labour and Capital: Perspectives from India

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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

2 years

Having studied in Delhi University for many years, I fell in love with momo. Hudson lane/Shagun was an iconic destination for the purpose. But good momos are as rare in the UK as a sunny day. So made my own momos on a Saturday night with friends.

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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

4 years

My essay on the discovery of a new colonial archive in global history, business and labour history of India and the British Empire @thewire_in @lnuccon A Scandinavian 'Nabob' of the British Empire: The Discovery of a New Colonial Archive

A Scandinavian 'Nabob' of the British Empire: The Discovery of a New Colonial Archive

Joseph Stephens’ life history forces us to rethink our understanding of India’s railway development, the wider distribution of colonial wealth in the Western world, and the transnational nature of...

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

So what? Your issue is that they sat on 5k$ seat or they discussed poverty? Had more rich people discussed and thought about poverty, things would have been different. Many rich people deny that the poverty exist as a systematic problem, but is a poor man’s own creation.

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Ravish Kumar met Amartya Sen today in a flight where they sat on a $5000 first class seat & discussed the Indian Poverty

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

As we celebrate Delhi University's 100th year, I just want to say that what I am today is because of this great institution. Straight from my village, I was in the warm hands of my DU teachers & friends. They gave me knowledge, confidence, job &, not to forget, two lovely awards.

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Arun Kumar

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I’m facing a huge challenge of half-backed PHD proposals from Indian applicants. Precisely, for the reasons that students are not trained for research degrees. Unless masters & 4 year BA have research component, there is a danger of students not meeting required research skills.

Sahil Kazmi | ساحل کاظمی

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all thanks to the UGC's discontinuation of the mphil, the great majority of master's graduate students are now expected to apply for PhD admissions despite having no formal training or even knowing how to approach a research proposal or research idea et all

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

I'm very happy to announce that our open-access book is published which looks at the history of Night-Time work. This book brings new knowledge on how nights have histories to tell. I have a chapter in the book titled 'The Nights of Bombay Workers'.

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

This is our 7th piece in the longest running series on Labour in India. We have written on tailors, carpenters, spinners, perfume makers, paper makers, bookbinders & typists. It was very exciting to write on “How Cycle Mechanics Helped India Move”

How Cycle Mechanics Helped India Move

Considering the role of the cycle mechanic in the Indian economy of the 20th century is especially important today, as automobiles and motorcycles increasingly displace the bicycle as the preferred...

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Arun Kumar

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4 years

It is my humble appeal that academics should consider reference letters to be very insignificant in weighing a candidate's worth. In fact, employers should abolish this archaic practice. Many students fail to secure them; some of them are not even at good terms with supervisors.

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Arun Kumar

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3 years

Reviewing Outcaste Bombay by Juned Shaikh. Congratulations Juned ji. His works explore the history of Bombay city, caste, Marxism, labour and Dalit literature.

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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

11 months

If you would like to know how colonialism drained Indian wealth and resources and led to the poverty of Indians, this recent book by Prof Moosvi explains this complex drain of wealth. Thanks @epw_in for sending the book all the way from India.

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

Rare things happen in the academic life too— have been invited for an online history lecture and being offered 25k inr for the lecture.

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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

9 months

Natalie Zemon Davis: She meant so much to us historians. We have lost one of the most outstanding scholars and social & gender historians of our time. As a scholar of Indian history & then a Ph.D. in Germany, she had little business with my work. But she not only invited me 1/4

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

Update about the CHS JNU Library

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

The National Archives of India ❤️ Amazed by new facilities

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Arun Kumar

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9 months

I'm beginning a new research project on How India Became Literate? that aims to track India's pre & post-Independence literacy adventures, literacy campaigns, library movements, and rural night schools. Please suggest ideas, readings, sources, and existing networks on the topic

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

On May Day, sharing the links of our “History of Labour in India” series. We are very proud that I & @LanzilloAmanda have been able to do this now year long running series with all our normal official work. It is the only series on labour. @thewire_in

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Arun Kumar

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3 years

Do you still read from photocopies, Academics? I spent more time at patel chest and later at the shop of Ashish da in JNU than actual classrooms.

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

But capitalism itself was fuelled by slavery in the eighteenth & nineteenth century. Slave grown cotton found space in Lancashire mills. Slave produced Sugar enhanced taste of Europeans & increased their energy and productivity. ships banks & insurance benefitted fom slave trade.

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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

2 years

Our book has been published!! Years of hard work. The Imperial Underbelly looks at the history of capitalism and global economic connections between India, the British Empire & Scandinavia. It is open access (free to download).

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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

4 years

In my understanding 'recommendation/reference letter' is a very colonial/archaic practice. Colonial officials needed it from natives/servants to know their and behaviour as 'proper' candidates. I am open to be corrected here.

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Arun Kumar

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4 years

However, what was more tragic was that some of my teachers who were ex-rhodes didn't write a reference letter for me. They said they couldn't spot my strengths in a class of 250 students. Many students and candidates in India suffer from 'recommendation letter' problem.

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Arun Kumar

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3 years

Supervising first-generation socio-economically/educationally marginalised background PhD scholars is hard work. No wonder many (abroad & home) supervisors reject such students based on the idea of 'pure' merit & language. Thankful to mine, Rupa Vishwanath & Neeladri Bhattacharya

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Arun Kumar

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3 years

Thought my new office was okay until I saw the colours changing yesterday. At the Nottingham University.

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Arun Kumar

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3 years

We're very excited to announce that our next piece in 'Workers of India Series' with @thewire_in would look at the history of labour behind perfumes. We will do the history of perfume/essential oil workers (itrsaz & khushbusaz) & how smell has a labour history. @LanzilloAmanda

Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

3 years

Our new essay on the invisible women of economic history and the widening gender pay gap. In this series, I & the amazing @LanzilloAmanda uncover the history of the poor, the socially marginalised. Our first essays were on carpenters and tailors. 1/4

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

A professional historian's lives in sum. Sit in archive for hours just to get 1 useful evidence.

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Arun Kumar

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4 months

PhD proposal and CV must be the key criteria for PhD Admission which is also a global practice. UGC must rethink this proposal.

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

Mandal Commission Report & its implementation is perhaps one of the most social revolutionary event of the postcolonial India. It changed the dynamics of universities where students from peasant & labouring background could dream of education. I was one such student from village.

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Arun Kumar

@arunk_patel

2 years

While elite histories are on rise globally, I & @LanzilloAmanda are trying to bring back the history of working people/class back to public realm. Latest in our series is the history of Indian perfume makers/industry. The Labour of Smell via @thewire_in

The Labour of Smell, and How the Artisan Attar Industry Survived Pressures Across Ages

Tracing the history of perfumers reveals worlds of labour migration, processes of industrialisation and indebtedness among workers, and the pressures of global trade.

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Arun Kumar

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3 years

Good News from my alma mater: Masters & PhD fellowship for Indian students from marginalised backgrounds. Please apply and circulate. Thank you. Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen ❤️

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

Meeting my teacher, Prabhu Mohapatra, in London. One of the finest labour historians of our time.

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

Oxford breakfasts!

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

U.P. आया हूँ, चाचा बोल रहे है IAS बने होते तो रूतबा होता। मैंने अपनी अनकही असहमति के साथ सहमति दे दी।

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

Professional historians do not write histories for the ruling elites by sitting in their lap. Hagiographers do.

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

If you are looking for a good History method book, this is well-written. Recommend it.

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Arun Kumar

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7 months

Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship 2024-2025 This Fellowship is intended for early to mid-career scholars who are resident and domiciled in India to spend a term of study and residence in Cambridge Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship - CRASSH

Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship - CRASSH

The Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship is intended for scholars who are resident in India and are in the earlier or middle stages of their career.

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Arun Kumar

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5 years

Happy to share my new Past & Present article on the letter-writing culture of the labouring poor. 4 years of writing. Would love your comments and criticism. Thankful to @nit_sinha , Shahid Amin, Natalie Zemon Davis, Ulrike Stark, Rupa Viswanath.

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Arun Kumar

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3 months

Formally, we made to our first year. Informally, fourteen years. Cheers to many more years of togetherness & friendship. Thanks @heenaadelhi .

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

In our artisans of India series, we're excited to write our next piece on the history of compositors and typesetters--people behind India's book revolution. I & Amanda @LanzilloAmanda go back to archives to understand such workers who gave words a physical reality.

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

Here is a good book on historical methods with contents written in a clear manner. Highly recommend it to students and new research scholars. A good entry point in historical methods.

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Arun Kumar

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6 months

Reading Agrarian Poverty in Colonial Uttar Pradesh by a stellar historian, Professor Shireen Moosvi. It is sad that there have not been many works on the social history of poverty in India. Prof Moosvi fills the gap. Trying to write my reflections/review of the book.

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

Finally the Imperial Underbelly in my hand! I have a chapter on Contract, Colonialism, & Capitalism.

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

Spot the JNU library from Nottingham?

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

Our new piece on workers of the printing industry. It took a while for this one. Read our series on the history of labourers/workers who shaped modern India @LanzilloAmanda 'The Workers Who Typed': The Labouring Stories of Book Production via @thewire_in

'The Workers Who Typed': The Labouring Stories of Book Production in Modern India

The world of the printing press in the 19th century was complex and specialised. Among other workers, compositors, who typed the words, emerged as an important new category of labour.

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

Another generation of the best history teachers of Delhi have retired who gave history a distinct recognition: Shahid Amin Mukul Mangalik Neeladri Bhattacharya Mukul Kesavan More in line 😔

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Arun Kumar

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1 year

Heena wrote & read a Nazm (नज़्म) for me on our wedding registration day. चूकीं मैं गद्य का आदमी हूँ, पर फिर मैं पद्य सुनकर फ़िदा हो गया। आप भी सुनिए। शुक्रिया @heenaadelhi

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Arun Kumar

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6 months

A funded doctoral workshop on Global History at Shiv Nadar University University. An excellent opportunity.

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Arun Kumar

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3 years

Writing this series on 'artisans/workers of India' with @LanzilloAmanda for @thewire_in has been an enriching experience. Our new piece on the history of tailors. How Colonial History Contributed to the Socio-Economic Marginalisation of Indian Tailors

How Colonial History Contributed to the Socio-Economic Marginalisation of Indian Tailors

Tailors are part of our intimate lives and yet we know very little about their histories and practices, perhaps because the profession contributed marginally to the national economy and was viewed...

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Arun Kumar

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10 months

On this #VishwakarmaJayanti , if you are interested in knowing more about history of artisans, read our longest running series on artisans of India with essays on carpenters, perfume makers, tailors, cycle mechanics, paper makers, etc. @LanzilloAmanda

The Labour of Smell, and How the Artisan Attar Industry Survived Pressures Across Ages

Tracing the history of perfumers reveals worlds of labour migration, processes of industrialisation and indebtedness among workers, and the pressures of global trade.

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

In the lush green campus of Nottingham University. First day of the teaching semester. Teaching following courses: Rule & Resistance in Colonial India Slavery, Caste, & Capitalism Roads to Modernity Past & Futures

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My liberal friends always doubted UP and saw it a den of political conservatism and communalism, but UP has emerged as the land of hope, land of a new wave of inclusive and progressive politics, and land which wants development and jobs. Touring UP gives new perspectives

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Arun Kumar

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3 years

We need research grants and permanent academic posts for universities that have been running without permanent faculties. We need alternative history, not “alternatives to history". My piece in ⁦ @IndianExpress ⁩ on recent 'politically manufactured' history controversies.

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Arun Kumar

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9 months

Professor Shahid Amin, my teacher at Delhi University and one of the founding members of Subaltern Studies Collective, remembering Natalie Zemon Davis. Across Fields and Disciplines, Historian Natalie Davis's Pathbreaking Work Has Left a Lasting Mark

Across Fields and Disciplines, Historian Natalie Davis's Pathbreaking Work Has Left a Lasting Mark

Davis was one of the most daring band of historians of our times.

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Arun Kumar

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My piece for the Print @ThePrintIndia Indian education system creating new forms of inequality. Caste, class lines now more defined via @theprintindia

Indian education system creating new forms of inequality. Caste, class lines now more defined

Huge tuition fees and increased living costs in major urban centers where these desirable educational institutes are located are segregating student bodies along caste and class lines.

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डिग्री तो थी, पर दीवाल नहीं। दस साल लग गये सही दीवाल खोजने में इनको टाँगने के लिए। खेती किसानी के घरों में बोरी और अनाज से भरे ड्रमों के बीच दीवालें अक्सर पंचांग और दुकानदारों के एडवर्टिजमेंट से भरे कैलेंडरों की होती है। +1

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3 years

This world, government, and middle class have been very cruel to informal workers.

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Modern day feudalism

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A world class university of India will start paying its new faculty hire by hour. This will be the final death of JNU's academic excellence. DU has been doing it for its faculty for a while now. Universities, Why don't you have money to pay for your teachers?

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#JNU Recruitment 2021: Deadline to apply for Guest Faculty positions ends soon, salary up to Rs 50,000 per month #Recruitment2021

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I spoke to the @bbcnewspunjabi on the discovery of a new archive of 300k Indian (Punjabi) soldiers who fought in the First World War. I explain why the UK & India forgot about the contributions of Indian soldiers. It is an amazing archive of WW1.

ਵਿਸ਼ਵ ਜੰਗ -1: ਕਰੀਬ ਇੱਕ ਸਦੀ ਬਾਅਦ ਕਿੱਥੋਂ ਤੇ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਮਿਲਿਆ 3 ਲੱਖ ਤੋਂ ਵੱਧ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਫ਼ੌਜੀਆਂ ਦਾ ਰਿਕਾਰਡ - BBC...

ਉਹ ਸੈਨਿਕ ਅਤੇ ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦਾ ਯੋਗਦਾਨ ਭਾਰਤ-ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ ਅਤੇ ਬ੍ਰਿਟੇਨ ਦੇ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਦੇ ਪੰਨਿਆਂ ਤੋਂ ਗਾਇਬ ਹੋ ਗਿਆ।

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Wedding registration day pics with lovely friends who honoured us with their presence ❤️❤️

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Yesterday at the Department of History, Delhi University. My alma mater. Discussed histories of Sleep & Night under colonialism

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A guide for colonial officials arriving in India: ‘Rise at daybreak, and ride gently for one hour in the hot season, and two hours in the cold season; make a moderate breakfast, avoiding melted butter, salt meats, salt fish, sweetmeats, &c., 1

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If you are researching on caste and looking for a postdoc fellowship: Two Postdoc fellowships in Critical Caste Studies

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Visited the Edinburgh University to deliver a lecture on Indian labor and social history. Great audience, interesting discussion, and beautiful campus.

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Happy to share my column piece in the Indian Express on how the Samajwadi Party and Akhilesh Yadav ⁦achieved 37 seats in the Lok Sabha and how a new class of subalterns supported his call. ⁦ @yadavakhilesh ⁩ ⁦ @IndianExpress ⁩ ⁦ @MediaCellSP ⁩

Samajwadi Party’s comeback in UP: The informal worker, Akhilesh Yadav’s new constituency

As we progress, what solace does politics offer to those employed on precarious contracts or with no contracts on low salaries? Their lives encapsulate both the injustice of social and economic life

indianexpress.com

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A year since this! Thank you @heenaadelhi for decades of togetherness. Happy anniversary to us.

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I will be giving a lecture on Silent Rebellions and Working-Class Dreams at the India International Centre, Delhi. I will discuss the birth of industrial and technical education in India and labouring and socially subalterns’ experience of education. Please attend and share

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This election has given a new Rahul Gandhi. One who is embedded into matters of Aam Jan Manas (subalterns), social justice politics, & constitutional values. Godi media & influences have been cruel to his sharp intellect, perseverance, hard work & pushed a negative image of him

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As a Professor of History, I write on the implications of Chat GPT and see an opportunity to reform our outdated education system. @IndianExpress A teacher writes: Challenges posed by ChatGPT are an opportunity to initiate long-overdue educational reforms

A teacher writes: Challenges posed by ChatGPT are an opportunity to initiate long-overdue educati...

It is a chance to turn around an education system that looks at students as passive recipients of curriculum to one that challenges their creativity and makes them co-creators of an evolving knowle...

indianexpress.com

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Amanda @LanzilloAmanda & I are excited to announce that the next piece in our one and only series on Workers of India with @thewire_in will be on cycle mechanics who helped India move. You can explore our series here to know the world of labourers and workers.

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We walked through Humayun’s Tomb at night. Such a beautiful experience!

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2 years

India has numerous great historical libraries which need our attention, both financially and as a reader. My friend @LanzilloAmanda explores the life of a Mumbai working-class library.

The Muslim-left legacy of an Urdu library in Mumbai

Upon entering the Awami Idara (People's Institution) library in the summer of 2022, I first met the older members of the library peering over their newspapers.

www.himalmag.com

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क्या किसी ने गुनाहों का देवता पढ़ा है? मेरे दिमाग़ पर फेविकोल की तरह चिपक हुआ है। एक महीने हो गया है।

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I am happy to speak with any potential postdoc candidate interested in South Asian history/British imperial history (in areas I work on) who wishes to apply for the British Academy Postdoc fellowship. Please read the eligibility rules before contacting

Postdoctoral Fellowships Outline Stage 2024-25 scheme guidance notes

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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My brief response situating recent history controversies and the IndiaToday Conclave on history by @sardesairajdeep , @ShashiTharoor , etc. 'We don't need to return to dynastic histories.' Thanks, @IndianExpress . @UniofNottingham

What lies at the heart of demands to rewrite history textbooks?

Shift in political power, need for social media-friendly content and outdated views on the role of history and historians have led to such demands.

indianexpress.com

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History of sleep and climate continues to fascinate me, here is a piece I wrote on how British colonial officials survived the Indian summer.

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Arun Kumar

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2 years

This meme sums up my last two years of life.

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Arun Kumar

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3 years

They say that the first PhD student is always special...Welcome Subodh. Very happy to be part of your much needed research on Musahars.

UoN History

@UonHistory

3 years

We are happy to announce that Mr. Subodh Kumar has joined @UonHistory as a PhD student to work on the history of the Dalit Musahar community. He will be supervised by Dr. Arun Kumar @arun_historian &Prof Sarah Badcock. Research Funding by the Indian Govt Overseas Scholarship.

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Our new essay on the invisible women of economic history and the widening gender pay gap. In this series, I & the amazing @LanzilloAmanda uncover the history of the poor, the socially marginalised. Our first essays were on carpenters and tailors. 1/4

The Invisible Women of Colonial India's Textile Industry

The experiences of women working in colonial India's textile industry inform the discussion on the discrimination, sexualisation and the wage gap which women in the workplace are faced with today.

thewire.in

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Why do some historians/theorists write in such abstract & complicated language? Do they want people to hire a 'Munshi' to read/interpret their works???

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