
Debjani
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Historian and author of Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta, doi.org/10.1017/978110… Tweets in private capacity and retweets not endorsement
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My article titled ‘Infrastructuring Floods in the Brahmaputra River Basin : Hydrocracies, Hubris, Hazardscapes’ has been published recently in the journal Economic and Political Weekly. shar.es/ab8zhx Economic & Political Weekly The PDF can be downloaded at the link: epw.in/system/files/p…

Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History by Ornit Shani and Rohit is out later this year with Cambridge University Press (cover below) and Penguin India cambridge.org/core/books/ass…


A long time in the making, our Radical History Review special issue is finally out now. It delves into the phenomenon of economic miracles and their afterlives unfolding across the world. Do check out!


🎉 Time to celebrate! 🎉 My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (Journal of Global History). Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S17400…

Capital's factions clashes in the Trump2 era. "The ambitions of the new Silicon Valley elite is not only to incapacitate the federal bureaucracy, but also to dethrone Wall Street." with Benjamin Braun in Phenomenal World phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ameri…

My article on Rivers in Deep Time! #rivers #himalaya #time #deeptime #bioregions South Asia Bioregionalism Working Group Vikalp Sangam #himalayanrivers #flowingrivers #geologicaltime #memory #riverscapes itswildouthere.com/blog/rivers-in…


'She asked a boss [at Boeing Charleston] if he would let his children fly on a Dreamliner with the litany of flaws and non-conformances...“Cindy, none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas,” he retorted, much to her horror.' prospect.org/economy/2025-0…


in the meantime you can read the first excerpt in the new Dissent Magazine, now unpaywalled: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-va…

We are hiring for our pilot project on #automatictextrecognition Universität Zürich Digital History Lab | University of Zurich: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/… #OCR #HTR #digitalhumanities Please spread the word!




Decades after equal pay laws, #Dalit women in #TamilNadu’s Thoothukudi salt pans earn Rs 10 less daily or Rs 300 less monthly than men. They carry 25-kg baskets in scorching heat, tradition justifying a gap meant to signal that men are still superior, writes Manideep Gudela


We are looking for an IT specialist for our Digital History Lab Digital History Lab | University of Zurich at University of Zurich. Please spread the word.

The making of Muslim ghettos in Calcutta, 1946–64 - Jonayed Rousan Mandal, Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…