Kalathmika Natarajan
@KalathmikaN
Historian of modern South Asia at the University of Exeter | Diplomatic history/IR at the intersections of indenture, migration, and caste.
Nearly a decade on from beginning the PhD, we have a book cover! Out later this year - my book exploring caste, migration and indenture as foundational to Indian diplomacy. @HurstPublishers hurstpublishers.com/book/coolie-mi…
What aircraft?
“The family of a Dalit man in Bathinda who died after an aircraft allegedly crashed and exploded on May 7 during the recent India-Pakistan conflict submitted a formal request last week seeking compensation from the government,” reports Kamaldeep Singh Brar
At the Security Council, the State of Palestine warned that Israel will not stop until it destroys the Palestinian people:
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Anyone who knows Whitefield in Bangalore as the exemplar of neoliberal IT development will be surprised to learn of its origins in the late 19th century as a self-help” settlement planned by the Eurasian and Anglo-Indian Association.
*NEW PUBLICATION* - My chapter “Race in the Garden: Eugenics and Utopian Planning” in this volume edited by Lauren Andres, Yasminah Beebeejain, and Yvonne Ryddin is now out. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
A Harvard publisher canceled an entire special issue of a journal on education and Palestine that planned to cover topics from the annihilation of Gaza’s schools to the challenges of teaching about Israel and Palestine in the United States. trib.al/pBFBGfZ
We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live! Visit southasianbritain.org @QMUL @BristolUni @britishlibrary @ahrcpress @UoBArtsMatter @BL_Learning @QMULsed
Upcoming film project stay tuned #GailOmvedtfilm @PatankarPrachi
A mass grave site in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna district,which has drawn domestic and international attention, is putting to test the Anura Kumara Dissanayake government’s pledgeto address Tamil people’s grievances. thehindu.com/news/internati… via @Meerasrini + @the_hindu
Pattanaik: "...we see a proliferation of vegertarian terrorism around us. And everyone knows this has nothing to do with saving the environment and everything to do with caste - establishing caste hegemony and the domination of the mercantile communities and their priests..."
Bengali is not an Indian language, I suppose. Thanks for saying it out loud.
Peace to the great C.M. Naim (1936 – 2025). When I started studying Urdu I started reading everything he ever wrote, and haven't stopped. Now, as ever, I recommend you read his moving account of his trip to Palestine in 1989 franpritchett.com/00litlinks/nai…
Huge respect to the art team for sifting through thousands of photos of this invariably smiling and neighborly man to find the one where he looks like Jafar from Aladdin
This is stellar, much-needed work on caste, immobility and the prevention of exit of caste-oppressed communities during Partition - do read, share, cite!
I'm very happy 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: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
The problem isn't simply that Trump bombed Iran without congressional authorization. The problem is that the United States under multiple administrations & congresses has consistently proven to be a rogue state, belligerent empire, & threat to world peace.
The Instagram account of The Savala Vada, a satirical meme page with over eighty thousand followers known for its sardonic, dark humour and sarcastic critiques of the Union government, has been withheld in India. maktoobmedia.com/india/we-just-…
OKAY OKAY! This is now REAL and while I'm nervous as hell and while the world is burning, I'm still really excited because this has been 5 years & a pandemic in the making. Preorders for the biography of KM Panikkar are open! Available at bookstores near you & online! ✨
The big summer book is here! 📢 @narayanibasu's detailed biography of K.M. Panikkar, one of India's most fascinating figures, the public intellectual and diplomat who helped shape the new nation, A Man for All Seasons is now available for pre-order. amzn.in/d/3WfRsjI
TIME cover from 2003 about ‘remaking’ the Middle East. We’re not exaggerating when we say it’s the same playbook.
TIME's new cover: The new Middle East ti.me/4k1s02r
How did political & economic transformations reorder women’s relationships with cycling in China, Japan & India? Mobilities across Nations & Times I analyse the cultural implications of women’s cycling. If you want to read, drop a line. @SnehaAnnavarapu @JSAnjaria #cycling
A ground report on expulsion of Assam residents to no man's land between India and Bangladesh border. reporting with @raghavKakkar30