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nwitkowski.bsky.social
Proofs (w/ pagination) now available for my 2025 article, “Rethinking ‘Brahmanization’ and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity” with #CSSAAME @dukepress.bsky.social

Download article here: tinyurl.com/2p8ycf6d

#monasticsubalterngovernmentalities
January 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
sepoy.bsky.social
Remaindered Life and The Surrounds: A Conversation with Neferti Tadiar and AbdouMaliq Simone in CSSAAME 44 (1) (open access)🗃️ read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...
June 11, 2024 at 1:00 PM
dukepress.bsky.social
CSSAAME challenges and expands theoretical, disciplinary, and political imaginations.

Issue 46:1 is now available. View the TOC and read "What Is Kafala?: Rethinking 'Sponsorship' as National Servitude," made freely available: buff.ly/XKo5mjP
CSSAAME cover with painting of worker covering suited figures eyes against blue background
May 21, 2026 at 7:00 PM
nwitkowski.bsky.social
Thank you to Dheepa Sundaram @themodsisyphus.bsky.social & Rohit Chopra @rohit.bsky.social for all their work editing the just published May 2025 #CSSAAME @dukepress.bsky.social special volume "Religion and Its Publics in South Asia"

Entire Issue free for download: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/issue
Volume 45 Issue 1 | Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East | Duke University Press
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May 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
jacobius.bsky.social
My latest article on the conflicting pressures faced by Muslim scholars in reformist circles of the 18th century:

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Toward the Formation of a Waliullahi Public in Eighteenth-Century India: The Trials and Tribulations of Nurullah Budhanwi
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May 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
jdryan08.bsky.social
My contribution to the CSSAME roundtable on the 25th anniversary of Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet’s seminal book, Frontier Fictions, is now freely available, as are the other contributions from some dear friends and colleagues. read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...
Building Nationalism from the Zamin Up | Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East | Duke University Press
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August 17, 2026 at 11:18 PM
nwitkowski.bsky.social
Now out: my article answering the question:

What does it mean to talk about #Indian #Buddhism as a #subaltern religion?

Download here: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...
Rethinking “Brahmanization” and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia | Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East | Duke University Press
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June 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
sepoy.bsky.social
Delighted that my friend and brilliant artist Rajkamal Kahlon’s work is on the cover of the CSSAAME journal I co-edit!
August 23, 2023 at 4:12 PM
nwitkowski.bsky.social
Now downloadable w/o paywall @dukepress.bsky.social in #CSSAAME: my most recent study which attempts to answer the question,

What does it mean to talk about #Buddhism as a #subaltern religion?

tinyurl.com/2zu4pe4m
Rethinking “Brahmanization” and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity
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July 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Jonathan Saha's Colonizing Animals for an animal history take, as is Rohan Deb Roy's book Malarial Subjects, and the CSSH special Volume Nonhuman Empires: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/sear...
January 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
nwitkowski.bsky.social
NEW ARTICLE in #CSSAAME on #monastic #asceticism as #subaltern resistance to #imperial power. Download here:

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“Rethinking ‘Brahmanization’ and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity”:
November 23, 2024 at 9:47 PM
ranjer.bsky.social
Go read my article “Global Revolution Starts with Palestine: The Japanese Red Army's Alliance with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” at “Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.” It’s free!

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November 12, 2024 at 5:45 PM
nielsboender.bsky.social
Thrilled to say that my most recent article has been released. It appears in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, on the politics of chieftaincy in decolonising Central Kenya, where many ex-Mau Mau found their way into local politics. read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...
Neo–Mau Mau and Ex-Loyalists | Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East | Duke University Press
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August 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
will-smiley.bsky.social
Delighted to announce that my new article, “Tipu and the Tabur: South Asian Influence on Ottoman Military Reform,” has just been published in CSSAAME!

I argue that an embassy from Tipu Sultan of Mysore catalyzed the first steps toward the Ottoman Nizam-ı Cedid reforms.
Tipu and the Tabur: South Asian Influence on Ottoman Military Reform
Abstract. This article examines connections and influences between Muslim polities across the Indian Ocean in the eighteenth century through the legacy of an embassy sent by Tipu Sultan of Mysore to t...
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August 20, 2026 at 2:36 PM
biqbal.bsky.social
nadia fadil - the ethics & pragmatics of ethnographic refusal read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...
The Ethics and Pragmatics of Ethnographic Refusal/Acceptance: Making Sense in Common
Abstract. Ethnographic refusal has been thematized as a challenge by many anthropologists. However, instead of approaching it simply as a problem, this article seeks to understand how both refusal and...
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December 13, 2024 at 3:12 PM
jdryan08.bsky.social
New piece from yours truly: a roundtable contribution on the 25th anniversary of Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet’s seminal book, Frontier Fictions. I reflect on a trip I took to eastern Turkey 15 years ago & how FKS’s ideas of borderlands and nationalism are still alive.

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Building Nationalism from the Zamin Up: Frontier Fictions and Modernization in Post-Ottoman Borderlands
James Ryan is the executive director of the Middle East Research and Information Project and an adjunct professor of history and international studies at Rowan University.
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April 10, 2026 at 2:48 PM
sepoy.bsky.social
I am especially proud of the Dec 2025 issue of *CSSAAME* @dukepress.bsky.social with the special issue "Technologies of War* (edited by Madiha Tahir and Adrien Zakar) and the Kitabkhana on Hafsa Kanjwal's *Colonizing Kashmiri* (2024) <--free to read!
Volume 45 Issue 3 | Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East | Duke University Press
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December 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
workshops4gaza.bsky.social
Also read Jeremy Randall's recent article Global Revolution Starts with Palestine: The Japanese Red Army's Alliance with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (if someone has an unpaywalled version pls link) read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...
Global Revolution Starts with Palestine: The Japanese Red Army's Alliance with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Abstract. This article examines the development and history of the alliance between the Japanese Red Army (JRA) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). It draws upon Arabic and J...
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August 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
New publication by Prof. Adrien Zakar
🗺️ “Gimmicks of War” shows how Ottoman maps were reactivated to legitimize territorial claims, mobilized as affective tools of political authority 🔗https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/429/402209/Gimmicks-of-War
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#History #STS
March 25, 2026 at 12:03 PM
biqbal.bsky.social
aaron eldridge, "dispossessing property: notes from monastic struggle in lebanon" read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti... check it
May 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
dukepress.bsky.social
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME) seeks to bring region and area studies into conversation with a rethinking of theory and the disciplines. Issue 47:3 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/bvx0QjV
Cover of Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East featuring an illustrated scene with two women posed as action figures against a painted backdrop.
December 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
sepoy.bsky.social
A Call for submissions from *Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East* hosted at @dukepress.bsky.social. Happy to answer any queries!
Dear Colleagues, We are writing because you have expressed interest in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East or related areas of study through Duke University Press. We would like to encourage you to consider submitting your research to CSSAAME or developing a special section or Kitabkhana for the journal. In addition, we hope you will keep us in mind as you encounter promising and established scholars presenting research that would fit well with us. Below please find a new call for papers. The call and more information about how to submit to the journal are available on the journal's webpage. Please do pass this information along to your own networks. Cover of the journal 'Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East,' Volume 45, Number 1, May 2025, featuring an abstract black and white illustration of a face surrounded by geometric shapes and symbols. As you may know, CSSAAME is devoted to publishing scholarship deeply rooted in the history, culture, and intellectual traditions of our areas of concern—often emerging from and mindful of the fraught epistemic politics of area studies. We particularly encourage projects that address current crises, such as those in Gaza, Iran, and Sudan. We encourage projects that push at the boundaries of conventional scholarly forms while also offering full scholarly peer review and rigorous academic engagement. Both of us are delighted to discuss potential submissions and special section proposals and would be happy to set up Zoom meetings with prospective organizers. Once again, thank you for your generosity, and we hope to be in touch soon. All best wishes, Manan Ahmed and Steven Pierce Senior Editors
July 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
historyasif.bsky.social
3/ "Making Space for the Nation: Satellite Television, Indian Scientific Elites, and the Cold War": read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...
Making Space for the Nation: Satellite Television, Indian Scientific Elites, and the Cold War
Through newly accessible archival materials, this essay recovers a particular moment in the birth of the Indian space program when its principal architects sought to leverage US commitment to Indian d...
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August 23, 2023 at 11:56 PM
nielsboender.bsky.social
the national political settlement. It shows how national elites, colonial officials and grassroots "bush politicans" were dragged into a triangular contest over the nature of independence. Give it a read (along with its two predecessors, JAH and CSSAAME)! (4/4)
October 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM