The 2025 Ashoka Diplomatic Studies Workshop for early-career researchers will be held at Ashoka University on 10-11 Oct. We welcome research on India's diplomatic studies using IR & historical approaches. Please submit a 250-word abstract and one-page CV by 10th March.

Did you know that liberalism in India began in... Kutch? So happy to be back at Center for the Advanced Study of India to speak about the origin story of Indian liberalism

The Indian edition of my book, put together by the wonderful team at juggernautbooks introduced by this striking image of a much-photographed man. Out next month!

Rosinka’s new book, India’s First Radicals, copies of which arrived today, will be out at the end of February.

3 days. 15 sessions. 40+ speakers. No parallel sessions. Focused sessions for the history-buffs. 3rd ed of the History Literature Festival in Bengaluru on Feb 28-Mar 2 covers science, business, food, music, theatre, cartoons, and much more; ancient world to 20th c. historylitfest.com/register-now/

9 tigers from 9 different Indian folk art forms preserving 9 age-old ways of looking at and living with the tigers. #folkindica #9tigers #tiger #nationalanimal #India #art #studiokyaari

“I say: what if we are entering an age of ‘might is right’? Jaishankar looks at me as a naïf.” “There was always an element of that, that ‘might is right’. I think the virtues of the old order are somewhat exaggerated.” ft.com/content/2877a7…

New #GrandTamasha: Veteran diplomat and public intellectual Kishore Mahbubani joins me to discuss his new book, “Living the Asian Century.” We discuss his Partition-era family’s life in Singapore, his diplomatic career, and the secret to Singapore’s success grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/kisho…

📢 New book in town looks at South Korea through Indian eyes. Two countries with Aug 15 as Independence Day. K-pop ofc, but also K-Biz and more generally K-Culture. Perfect gift to your K-obsessed friend. O Kkkk then. juggernautbooks Pre-order link: tinyurl.com/SeoulmatesKore…

Tomorrow at Harvard University Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics I will be speaking about a sanyasi from Calcutta who in 1858 went up the Himalayas to meditate on how to revive India and eventually came down in 1865 to inaugurate liberal constitutional reform in the Native States beginning with Kutch

What is Comparative? What is Global? Convened by our own Rahul Sagar, with multiple speakers from AGPT, to be held Princeton University.

My letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi avaru on his leadership during #OperationSindhoor. PMO India

I'll be speaking at Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on June 9 (The talk will also be streamed on Zoom, link in the poster below)

I'll be speaking at Cambridge Global Intellectual History and The Cambridge School on Tue June 10. Come by if you're in Cambridge!

Don't forget to join us for a fascinating talk by Prof. Rahul Sagar on Indian liberalism at 4pm today in the Old FDR at St Anthony's. For those joining online, please use the link below: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Oxford History Oxford Global History Rahul Sagar

Last year we launched the Archives on India platform listing and mapping over 600 archives. The map has received over 150K views so far! We've added dozens of new additions to the database and continue to update this with new information. A must-see resource for history-buff!

Despite its size, the constitution was a deeply progressive document. It guaranteed people of Aundh freedoms of speech, press, assembly and worship besides promising them non-discrimination and universal and free primary education. scroll.in/magazine/10853… ✍️Anu Kumar

Having had the pleasure of reading drafts of this book by Arvind Subramanian & Devesh Kapur, I can say—with no exaggeration—it’s one of the most —important books published on India—and development more generally—in recent memory. You can pre-order here: amazon.in/dp/9369891099?…

Excited to launch the Centre for Social and Economic Progress King's College London NYU Abu Dhabi 'Archives & Policy Seminar Series'—working to improve access & navigation in India’s archives. The 1st session featured Mr Syed Farid AhmedDeputy Director (National Archives of India )in conversation w/ Vandana . More soon!