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PhD scholarship for candidate who wants to create and pursue their own socio-legal research project on sectoral water conflicts in South Asia as part of a major new research project at SOAS - (WATCON). Candidate criteria and application procedure 👇 soas.ac.uk/study/student-…

Not long now! Remember to send in your BASAS conference paper abstracts before the deadline on 15 April! 🎊🥰 basas.org.uk/news-events/ba…

The deadline to submit an abstract for the 2025 BASAS Annual Conference is fast approaching...less than a week to go! *Submit your abstracts by 15 April 2025* basas.org.uk/news-events/ba… Deborah Sutton 😊

A tremendous resource developed by University of Leeds School of History's excellent Research Officer, Dr. Joanna Phillips. Highlights the rich research done within the School, which then feeds into cutting edge, research-led teaching. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/450/w…

*@nomhossain will deliver the BASAS Annual Lecture 2025 on 9 May* Full details available on our website: basas.org.uk/news-events/ba…

Great postdoc opportunity on a fantastic project I'm involved with in an advisory capacity: "Genealogies of 'humanity' in Islamic charity", based at Leiden University. Kindly circulate! universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2…

Dear Readers of The Wire In a clear violation of the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press, the Government of India has blocked access to thewire.in across India. +

‘Blatant censorship at a critical time’: ‘The Wire’ says its website blocked by Centre scroll.in/latest/1082179…

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat. Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Dr Benjamin Dalton is a lecturer in French Studies in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Ben's research explores how contemporary French philosophy and cultural production engage with biomedical science (2/5)

Call for Papers: I'm running a workshop on Colourism in South Asia and South Asian communities at the University of York in November (with the intention of putting together an edited collection). Please circulate & consider submitting an abstract by 11 July 2025. #SouthAsia

Replug | Climate change is making salt harder to produce. scroll.in/article/106322… In Gujarat—India’s top salt-producing state—unpredictable, shifting monsoons are threatening the centuries-old livelihoods of salt workers. Vaishnavi Rathore reports

And, just like that, registration opened for BASAS conference 10 - 12 September 2025: wp.lancs.ac.uk/basas2025/

A job! A one year, 0.8FTE job, but a job in Modern History. 🔥🔥hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Join us for an exciting Climates of Empire 2025 conference. Registration open. For more details click sussex.ac.uk/cweh/newsandev… University of Sussex Vinita Damodaran

Pleased to announce a conference in honour of Richard Grove

Environmentalism, historian and columnist Ramachandra Guha has written, is thought to be a “full-stomach phenomenon” – it’s believed to be a Western concern because people in countries like India are simply too poor to be green. Watch ⤵️ youtu.be/NGpbAwjqBfM?si… #WorldEnvironmentDay

You flush and forget. But someone else deals with the shit. scroll.in/article/914512… A graphics-led investigation uncovers how India’s sanitation system still relies on caste-bound labour—and what happens to waste when the system fails. By Anirudh A Ashar & Aarefa Johari

“Embedded in these is a storehouse of knowledge systems relating to the landscape and ecologies in and around the rivers.” Beautiful work. Creating a People’s Biography of Rivers: Northeast’s Own Digital Archive m.thewire.in/article/cultur…

We’re back after a short break! Help us grow the #CitiesInFiction archive. If you’ve recently read a book set in South Asia, let us know — we’d love to include it on the site. More info here citiesinfiction.com