Have joined Edinburgh University as a Newton International Fellow of the British Academy. Coming from DU & Jamia and a working-class Delhi family, this opportunity means a lot. My new work explores the history of domestic servants in early modern India.
I am very excited to join University of Leicester as an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow. In my research, I will do a social history of astrology in early modern India. I will examine how astrology found a great career in the lives of kings & queens, merchants & ordinary people.
I’m excited to share that I have been selected as a Newton Fellow. I will work at Edinburgh university on the history of domestic servants through Urdu, Persian and Hindi sources. So happy to start this new chapter in my career🥰🤞
My new piece in EPW reflecting on “A Most Notable Life: The Biography of Ashrafunnisa Begum”.
Ashrafunnisa was one of the earliest autodidacts of the nineteenth century who devoted to learning & teaching against family & societal odds, who were opposed to girls’ learning.
Arun Kumar
@arunk_patel
& I celebrated our reception in Arun’s home town Hardoi. In celebrating it, we were joined by UP’s ex-chief minister and national chief of SP
@samajwadiparty
Shri Akhilesh Yadav ji
@yadavakhilesh
. Thank you for coming and giving your blessings.
Celebrated the Independence Day by meeting fellow Indians in Nottingham, England & with
@arunk_patel
.
Wore the saree gifted by Shri Akhilesh Yadav ji
@yadavakhilesh
. Thank you for the lovely Saree. Absolutely loved it. You made our celebration special.
Fortunate to have found Sajjad Husain’s Nashtar, Urdu trans of a Persian autobiography written in 1790 by Hasan Shah who was working as munshi of a British officer
Prof.
@Crispinbates
and I are inviting abstracts for our ECSAS panel on servitude and mobility. Please consider submitting yours. Deadline 15 Jan 2023. Read more here:
Arun Kumar’s column in The Indian Express
@IndianExpress
explaining how SP became the third largest party in the Lok Sabha .
He argues what explains SP’s dominance is the rise of a new Subaltern Class.
@arunk_patel
Hum sabki favourite
@heenaadelhi
(BA Newton Fellow) presenting at the School of History, Classics and Archeology, University of Edinburgh.
What a brilliant, brilliant paper touching upon so many themes of history and contemporary society.
Happy to share our latest public history essay on India’s paper makers in our
@thewire_in
series on ‘Workers of India’.
Please read & retweet for broader reach.
The Kághazis’ Story: How the Indian Papermaking Industry Evolved, Declined & Transformed
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
Just thinking
#Qala
beautifully captured all it’s possible meanings: Qal’a (guarded space/characters) or kala (art) or the mercury sign in the poster (concerning mind/psychology in astrology).
My book, Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship and Technology, is now available for pre-order through
@ucpress
. The book will be released in both hard copy and open access (free!) e-book form in January 2023.
Found this portrait of a servant, Sarah Malcolm, sitting in despair, waiting to die. She was executed in 1733 for murdering her mistress and two fellow servants.
@NatGalleriesSco
I usually listen and enjoy
@PuraniDilliWali
on my train journeys. Today, on my way to Leeds, I get to know a new nazm called Alauddin ka Tarbooz of
@sagharkhayyami
. A brilliant satire on the struggle of finding a house in Delhi.
I just learned about ‘sandwich technique’- negative feedback sandwiched between positive ones to ease the conversation. Guess I always needed this approach in my personal life.
Visited the Edinburgh University to deliver a lecture on Indian labor and social history. Great audience, interesting discussion, and beautiful campus.
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
@VFSGlobal
@ItalyinUK
@ItalyinLDN
l’m sitting in Manchester visa application centre since morning, paid £200 for taxi, trying to convince the lady. But she is just not attending me.
Dear
@VFSGlobal
can you plz help
@heenaadelhi
to get her visa application submitted? The VFS Manchester
@ItalyinLDN
is not accepting her application. Due to national rail strike, she took a taxi to Manchester and the employee is asking her to travel again. This is unfair & cruel.
Thankyou for pointing this out
@khareswarnim
. Turns out that it had my name in the beginning and they have removed it now. Don't know the reason though 🤔
@GetNewsd
could you help?