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Woh toptatti? - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #KashmirAndJammuHistory #KashmiriHistory #SouthAsianHistory #IndianHistory #PakistaniHistory #RajHistory #LineOfControl #CurzonLine #HistBookChat
October 9, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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Thrilled to receive gorgeous new book by @moubanerjee28.bsky.social in the mail! For legal historians: I recommend ch.3 on the great Tagore will case. #SouthAsianHistory Congratulations, Mou!!
December 27, 2024 at 8:02 PM
martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social
हे भगवान! (Hey Bhagwan!)! - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #IndianHistory #SouthAsianHistory #PakistaniHistory #BangladeshiHistory #PunjabiHistory #JammuAndKashmir #EastPakistan #IndoPakWars #HistBookChat
June 2, 2026 at 12:50 PM
martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social
Zounds - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #19thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #BritishImperialHistory #SouthAsianHistory #AfricanHistory #RussianImperialHistory #AsianHistory #SikhWars #CrimeanWar #MaoriWars #ZuluWar #Sudan #HistBookChat
January 1, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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Trip to Denver for a CMH meeting and supplies - one of the lads found a cache of Ballantine's! #GarageSaleScore!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #BritishImperialHistory #RajHistory #SouthAsianHistory #IndianHistory #PakistaniHistory #BurmaHistory #HistBookChat
September 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
easterneye.bsky.social
Shana Chandra on Banjara and the Hidden History of Girmitiyas | Eastern Eye Interview

#ShanaChandra #Banjara #Girmitiya #IndoFijian #IndianHistory #SouthAsianHistory #IndentureSystem #BritishEmpire
June 8, 2026 at 12:27 PM
easterneye.bsky.social
From Rajasthan to Fiji's sugar plantations, this is the story of a forgotten migration. Shana Chandra discusses the history behind her acclaimed debut novel, Banjara.

#ShanaChandra #Banjara #Girmitiya #IndianHistory #IndoFijian #MigrationHistory #BritishEmpire #SouthAsianHistory #Books
June 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
ufvpresident.bsky.social
#NationalTreasure:
"Photos fill a historical gap in the Canadian narrative, where the stories of over a million South Asian Canadians have gone untold."

Read more at #UFVToday:
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#History #CanadianHistory #SouthAsianHistory #Research #Stories
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February 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social
Abbay yaar / Abbay! (عجیب / ارے یار)!! - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #21stCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #SouthAsianHistory #IndianHistory #PakistaniHistory #JammuAndKashmir #CurzonLine #IndoPakWars #HistBookChat
September 1, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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Just finished my 7th Book Review of the Year! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #7thTo16thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #SouthAsianHistory #IndianHistory #PakistaniHistory #BangladeshiHistory #NepaliHistory #Infantry #LightCavalry #Archers #HistBookChat
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February 10, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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Hope to see more people around on Bluesky soon!
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November 9, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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This week’s additions to my imperial and global history research pile, along with important perspectives (six decades apart) on the purpose and discipline of history.

#history #imperialhistory #southasianhistory #britishhistory #histbookchat

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SHADOWS AT NOON: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji (The Bodley Head, 2023) THE SILK ROADS: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan (Bloomsbury, 2016) THE WEST: A New History of an Old Idea by Naoise Mac Sweeney (WH Allen, 2024) TIME’S MONSTER: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire by Priya Satia (Penguin, 2022) AMRITSAR 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre by Kim A. Wagner (Yale University Press, 2019) CAPITALISM AND SLAVERY by Eric Williams (Penguin Classics, 2022. First published in the USA, 1944) WHAT IS HISTORY FOR? by Robert Gildea (Bristol University Press, 2024) WHAT IS HISTORY? by E.H. Carr (Penguin Classics, 2018. First published by Macmillan, 1961)
March 29, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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"…[a] must-read intellectual biography." — THE PRINT

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#IndianHistory #SouthAsianHistory #PoliticalHistory #PoliticalThought
July 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM
thedailyhistorian.bsky.social
It was a declaration made amid an ongoing conflict whose political, religious and human consequences continued long after the announcement.

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Activists mark the 25th anniversary of Operation Blue Star on on June 6, 2009. It was an attack on the Golden Temple complex by the Indian army in 1984 to arrest Bhindranwale, the Sikh leader, and his militant followers who initiated a movement for a separate Sikh state, a move linked to the eventual assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. (Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images)
October 8, 2026 at 4:06 AM
timlubin.bsky.social
Looking forward to my talk at U.Mich. this month, "The Exemption that Proves the Rule: Reading Law Between the Lines of Medieval South Asian Foundation Charters," in honor of the superb historian Tom Trautmann. ii.umich.edu/csas/news-ev... #legalhistory #ancientlaw #lawandreligion #southasianhistory
March 1, 2024 at 2:27 PM
himalsouthasian.bsky.social
Revisiting Jinnah through the archives.
A selection of Himal articles that reflect on his political thought, legacy, and the many ways he has been interpreted over time.
#SouthasianHistory #Archives
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
aprilpeake.bsky.social
Had a wonderful first day at the British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference at @southasiainstitute.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social!

This weekend, a wide range of @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social and @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social books are on display.

#BASAS2026 #SouthAsianHistory
September 12, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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Amartya Sen’s formative years reveal how education, trauma, books, and pluralism forged a thinker committed to justice beyond borders.
By Dr. Nasreen Rehman

Read: thefridaytimes.com/22-Jan-2026/...

#AmartyaSen #IntellectualHistory #Pluralism #PartitionMemory #HumanistThought #SouthAsianHistory
January 22, 2026 at 1:12 PM
martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social
Just finished my 73rd Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #BritishImperialHistory #RajHistory #SouthAsianHistory #IndianHistory #PakistaniHistory #BangladeshiHistory #JapaneseImperialHistory #HistBookChat
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Martin Koenigsberg's review of Slim (Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century. War leader book)
4/5: My father always felt that Slim was the greatest of all the Allied Generals, save perhaps the genius Eisenhower had for coalition warfare. As my father was a polymath university professor and I a...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social
By Toutatis - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #4thCenturyHistory #16thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #SouthAsianHistory #IndianHistory #IslamicHistory #MedievalHistory #AngloSaxonHistory #BritishHistory #WargameResearch #MedievalIndianArmies2
November 8, 2023 at 12:17 PM
martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social
Just finished my 49th Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #SouthAsianHistory #IndianHistory #PakistaniHistory #RajHistory #BritishImperialHistory #JapaneseImperialHistory #BritishHistory #HistBookChat
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Martin Koenigsberg’s review of The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War
British Academic Professor Yasmin Khan takes on the History of India in WWII with this book, although there is some coverage of the other parts of British Asia, Burma, Malaysia and Singapore. Her focu...
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September 4, 2024 at 12:51 PM
martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social
Trip to Europe to see my sister and her family - #MarTMar2Euro24 - there was a pilgrimage to @foylesforbooks on the Charing Cross Road!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #SouthAsianHistory #BritishImperialHistory #PacificWar #IndianHistory #PakistaniHistory
June 8, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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If you made the journey - or have inherited stories or materials from relatives - we’d love to hear from you.

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Please repost to help us reach more families and preserve these histories for future generations.

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June 23, 2026 at 5:55 AM
thefridaytimes.bsky.social
Lahore never left Satish Gujral. Even after Partition, the city's memories shaped his art and identity for decades. A powerful story of nostalgia, loss, and creativity.
✍️ Talha Shafiq

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Satish Gujral’s Lahore: The City That Gave Silence A Language
social discomfort and deprivation shaped Satish Gujral's artistic vision.
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July 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
indiaweekly.bsky.social
Sunny Deol's 'Batwara 1947' trailer explores these missing aspects of India-Pakistan partition

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Sunny Deol's Batwara 1947 Trailer Revisits the Untold Stories of Partition
As Batwara 1947 revisits one of South Asia's darkest chapters, its trailer shifts the focus from political borders to the people who lived through Partition, highlighting loss, resilience, and the hum...
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July 28, 2026 at 5:47 PM