Excited to see my book - WAITING ON EMPIRE (Indian ayahs in Britain) sharing space with @willdalrymple.bsky.social at Chester Beatty Museum 🥳🤗
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Excited to see my book - WAITING ON EMPIRE (Indian ayahs in Britain) sharing space with @willdalrymple.bsky.social at Chester Beatty Museum 🥳🤗
looks like its just saying "hey, the big cheese made the world. He MIGHT unmake it, he might not. he sends his students to warn about this. They're just the messenger though." At least its Regular Human Error and not "i trusted a chatbot to do this thing I could easily have done"
Surah Al-Mulk Ayahs 13-26 - Read, Listen, Translation, Tafsir - Quran.com
Surah Al-Mulk Ayahs 13-26 - واسروا قولكم او اجهروا به انه عليم بذات الصدور
quran.com
July 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
looks like its just saying "hey, the big cheese made the world. He MIGHT unmake it, he might not. he sends his students to warn about this. They're just the messenger though." At least its Regular Human Error and not "i trusted a chatbot to do this thing I could easily have done"
✒️ 50% das pessoas engordam após usar canetas emagrecedoras, diz estudo
Em estudo apontou um efeito rebote preocupante e reforça alerta sobre uso isolado dos medicamentos
Leia: curt.link/AYAhs
Em estudo apontou um efeito rebote preocupante e reforça alerta sobre uso isolado dos medicamentos
Leia: curt.link/AYAhs
April 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
✒️ 50% das pessoas engordam após usar canetas emagrecedoras, diz estudo
Em estudo apontou um efeito rebote preocupante e reforça alerta sobre uso isolado dos medicamentos
Leia: curt.link/AYAhs
Em estudo apontou um efeito rebote preocupante e reforça alerta sobre uso isolado dos medicamentos
Leia: curt.link/AYAhs
Looking forward to sharing incredible stories of mobile caregivers (Indian ayahs who travelled) from 19th and 20th century.
Join your next Chester Beatty talk from anywhere in the world for just €5 - plus take part in a historian-led Q&A! 😍 ow.ly/ZMHM50XeN2g @migrationhistorian.bsky.social
#empire #ayahs #womenshistory #digitalevent
#empire #ayahs #womenshistory #digitalevent
Interested in the history of women, workers, caregivers or empire? Do we have the Zoom talk for you!
Join Dr Arunima Datta for 'Travelling Ayahs, Migration and Care Labour in the Age of Empire' on November 12 at 6pm GMT / noon CST. Book here: ow.ly/ZMHM50XeN2g
#labourhistory #migrationhistory
Join Dr Arunima Datta for 'Travelling Ayahs, Migration and Care Labour in the Age of Empire' on November 12 at 6pm GMT / noon CST. Book here: ow.ly/ZMHM50XeN2g
#labourhistory #migrationhistory
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Looking forward to sharing incredible stories of mobile caregivers (Indian ayahs who travelled) from 19th and 20th century.
From June 2024: In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire.
A review essay by @SohelS28:
buff.ly/RIb4CWz
A review essay by @SohelS28:
buff.ly/RIb4CWz
The incomplete histories of women migrant caregivers under the British Empire
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire
buff.ly
August 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
From June 2024: In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire.
A review essay by @SohelS28:
buff.ly/RIb4CWz
A review essay by @SohelS28:
buff.ly/RIb4CWz
Watched the AEW All In Main Event again. It'd been in my head all week. It's not something I'd expect to see every week or anything but from start to finish it's just exactly what I'm into. Lots of OOYAHs and AYAHs. I did a big YES MAN towards the end. Proper medium defining stuff. Good on them.
September 4, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Watched the AEW All In Main Event again. It'd been in my head all week. It's not something I'd expect to see every week or anything but from start to finish it's just exactly what I'm into. Lots of OOYAHs and AYAHs. I did a big YES MAN towards the end. Proper medium defining stuff. Good on them.
Happy thanksgiving everyone!
My neighbor (I’m lucky to have another author living next to me) just alerted me that my book (WAITING ON EMPIRE: history of Indian travelling ayahs in Britain) is on sale now @amazon
My neighbor (I’m lucky to have another author living next to me) just alerted me that my book (WAITING ON EMPIRE: history of Indian travelling ayahs in Britain) is on sale now @amazon
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Happy thanksgiving everyone!
My neighbor (I’m lucky to have another author living next to me) just alerted me that my book (WAITING ON EMPIRE: history of Indian travelling ayahs in Britain) is on sale now @amazon
My neighbor (I’m lucky to have another author living next to me) just alerted me that my book (WAITING ON EMPIRE: history of Indian travelling ayahs in Britain) is on sale now @amazon
I had the pleasure to review Arunima Datta's wonderful book 'Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain' for Cultural & Social History. A very welcome corrective to the entrenched biases in histories of travel. 🗃️
Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
www.tandfonline.com
September 3, 2024 at 11:54 AM
I had the pleasure to review Arunima Datta's wonderful book 'Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain' for Cultural & Social History. A very welcome corrective to the entrenched biases in histories of travel. 🗃️
The Ayahs' Home, King Edward Road Hackney London, provided accommodation for Indian ayahs and Chinese amahs (nannies) at the turn of the 20th century who were "ill-treated, dismissed from service or simply abandoned" with no return passage to their home country.
June 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The Ayahs' Home, King Edward Road Hackney London, provided accommodation for Indian ayahs and Chinese amahs (nannies) at the turn of the 20th century who were "ill-treated, dismissed from service or simply abandoned" with no return passage to their home country.
Taking a moment to celebrate these women this Mother's Day... who
"mothered" soooo many children across the world!
WAITING ON EMPIRE - the stories of incredible traveling ayahs (and the exhibition we co-curated at the museum of the home!) @academic.oup.com @museumofthehome.bsky.social
"mothered" soooo many children across the world!
WAITING ON EMPIRE - the stories of incredible traveling ayahs (and the exhibition we co-curated at the museum of the home!) @academic.oup.com @museumofthehome.bsky.social
May 10, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Taking a moment to celebrate these women this Mother's Day... who
"mothered" soooo many children across the world!
WAITING ON EMPIRE - the stories of incredible traveling ayahs (and the exhibition we co-curated at the museum of the home!) @academic.oup.com @museumofthehome.bsky.social
"mothered" soooo many children across the world!
WAITING ON EMPIRE - the stories of incredible traveling ayahs (and the exhibition we co-curated at the museum of the home!) @academic.oup.com @museumofthehome.bsky.social
Direct link: www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/...
It amazes me that billion-ayahs infight… I thought that was below their enviable pay grade. 😬
Billion-ayahs must have paper thin skin. Elon and Ramaswamy will need facialists on a daily.
It amazes me that billion-ayahs infight… I thought that was below their enviable pay grade. 😬
Billion-ayahs must have paper thin skin. Elon and Ramaswamy will need facialists on a daily.
JD Vance defends billionaire business ally accused of cruel small-town America remark
Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen accused journalist Rick Perlstein of “slandering me with fake quotes.”
www.msnbc.com
January 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Direct link: www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/...
It amazes me that billion-ayahs infight… I thought that was below their enviable pay grade. 😬
Billion-ayahs must have paper thin skin. Elon and Ramaswamy will need facialists on a daily.
It amazes me that billion-ayahs infight… I thought that was below their enviable pay grade. 😬
Billion-ayahs must have paper thin skin. Elon and Ramaswamy will need facialists on a daily.
gay wordle be like todays wordle is ayahs and also i like sucking penis
September 13, 2026 at 5:34 PM
gay wordle be like todays wordle is ayahs and also i like sucking penis
Here is a local history and archives project I did with archives in UK. they have a whole series of shorts. But this is a snapshot …. Wanna know more about travelling ayahs … get in touch 🤗
youtu.be/w2Jx6RvNMhY?...
youtu.be/w2Jx6RvNMhY?...
Travelling Ayahs in Britain with Dr Arunima Datta
YouTube video by Dig Where You Stand
youtu.be
June 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Here is a local history and archives project I did with archives in UK. they have a whole series of shorts. But this is a snapshot …. Wanna know more about travelling ayahs … get in touch 🤗
youtu.be/w2Jx6RvNMhY?...
youtu.be/w2Jx6RvNMhY?...
Purba Hossain reviews 'Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain', by Arunima Datta @migrationhistorian.bsky.social
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Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain, By Arunima Datta
‘Ayahs are, as a rule, very fond of babies, and gentle and patient with them to a degree which would astonish the rough and ready English nurse-maids. Almo
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April 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Purba Hossain reviews 'Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain', by Arunima Datta @migrationhistorian.bsky.social
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academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
qadt.omaryahya.net is production ready. payloads are optimized-ish, load time should be faster. Now to finish what the late Kais had begun and train an LLM to map out the syntax and morphology for the missing Suras.
February 21, 2026 at 3:24 PM
qadt.omaryahya.net is production ready. payloads are optimized-ish, load time should be faster. Now to finish what the late Kais had begun and train an LLM to map out the syntax and morphology for the missing Suras.
Free lecture 📣 Distinguished historian and AAH Fellow Prof Victoria Haskins FAHA from the University of Newcastle will present the 2025 Allan Martin Lecture: Connecting the dots — Ayahs & empire in Australian settler society.
🕡 6.30pm, Tues 22 July 2025
📌 ANU
🎟️ bit.ly/414ehAW
🕡 6.30pm, Tues 22 July 2025
📌 ANU
🎟️ bit.ly/414ehAW
July 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Free lecture 📣 Distinguished historian and AAH Fellow Prof Victoria Haskins FAHA from the University of Newcastle will present the 2025 Allan Martin Lecture: Connecting the dots — Ayahs & empire in Australian settler society.
🕡 6.30pm, Tues 22 July 2025
📌 ANU
🎟️ bit.ly/414ehAW
🕡 6.30pm, Tues 22 July 2025
📌 ANU
🎟️ bit.ly/414ehAW
I review Prof. Arunima Datta's well-researched and important book on the traveling ayahs here:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DNCBH...
Thanks again @priyankabasu.bsky.social for the opportunity. Anybody interested in reading and can't go beyond the paywall, please let me know. Will be happy to share 🙂
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DNCBH...
Thanks again @priyankabasu.bsky.social for the opportunity. Anybody interested in reading and can't go beyond the paywall, please let me know. Will be happy to share 🙂
Waiting on empire: a history of Indian travelling ayahs in Britain
Published in South Asian History and Culture (Ahead of Print, 2025)
urldefense.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I review Prof. Arunima Datta's well-researched and important book on the traveling ayahs here:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DNCBH...
Thanks again @priyankabasu.bsky.social for the opportunity. Anybody interested in reading and can't go beyond the paywall, please let me know. Will be happy to share 🙂
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DNCBH...
Thanks again @priyankabasu.bsky.social for the opportunity. Anybody interested in reading and can't go beyond the paywall, please let me know. Will be happy to share 🙂
I was also interested in the much lauded ayahs. I think it started for me with the Secret Garden.
December 7, 2024 at 6:48 AM
I was also interested in the much lauded ayahs. I think it started for me with the Secret Garden.
One of my favorite ayahs of the Quran. The signs of the Divine Reality that is Reality itself are to be found in the cosmos and within our own human subjectivity. The entire cosmos and self is a 'book' or revelation & textual revelations must be understood in light of this framework
Soon will We show them our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth.
Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?
#Quran 41: 53
Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?
#Quran 41: 53
January 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
One of my favorite ayahs of the Quran. The signs of the Divine Reality that is Reality itself are to be found in the cosmos and within our own human subjectivity. The entire cosmos and self is a 'book' or revelation & textual revelations must be understood in light of this framework
Free online CPD from @britishlibrary.bsky.social Learning & Historical Assoc on February 13!
Join Dr Yasmin Khan, @justice2history.bsky.social, and Head of History Emma McKenna, for fresh ideas and resources on South Asian migration to Britain in the 19th century.
Book here: bit.ly/4gvYjVd
Join Dr Yasmin Khan, @justice2history.bsky.social, and Head of History Emma McKenna, for fresh ideas and resources on South Asian migration to Britain in the 19th century.
Book here: bit.ly/4gvYjVd
February 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Free online CPD from @britishlibrary.bsky.social Learning & Historical Assoc on February 13!
Join Dr Yasmin Khan, @justice2history.bsky.social, and Head of History Emma McKenna, for fresh ideas and resources on South Asian migration to Britain in the 19th century.
Book here: bit.ly/4gvYjVd
Join Dr Yasmin Khan, @justice2history.bsky.social, and Head of History Emma McKenna, for fresh ideas and resources on South Asian migration to Britain in the 19th century.
Book here: bit.ly/4gvYjVd
I feel that ayahs were much-tried women. I don’t really blame them for giving their charges a bit of laudanum on their fingertip.
December 7, 2024 at 6:51 AM
I feel that ayahs were much-tried women. I don’t really blame them for giving their charges a bit of laudanum on their fingertip.
From June 2024 #WomenAtWork
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire, writes Sohel Sarkar
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire, writes Sohel Sarkar
The incomplete histories of women migrant caregivers under the British Empire
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire
buff.ly
March 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
From June 2024 #WomenAtWork
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire, writes Sohel Sarkar
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire, writes Sohel Sarkar
The latest issue of Cultural & Social History is now out, including also my review of Arunima Datta's 'Waiting on Empire'. It's a fascinating exercise in what many historians of global connections just assume cannot be done: tracing the lives and stories of mobile service labour.
Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Vol. 21, No. 4, 2024)
doi.org
October 14, 2024 at 7:26 AM
The latest issue of Cultural & Social History is now out, including also my review of Arunima Datta's 'Waiting on Empire'. It's a fascinating exercise in what many historians of global connections just assume cannot be done: tracing the lives and stories of mobile service labour.
June 2024: In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire.
A review essay by @SohelS28:
A review essay by @SohelS28:
The incomplete histories of women migrant caregivers under the British Empire
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire
buff.ly
June 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
June 2024: In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire.
A review essay by @SohelS28:
A review essay by @SohelS28:
#WomensDay #WomenAtWork
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire, writes @Sohel Sarkar
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire, writes @Sohel Sarkar
The incomplete histories of women migrant caregivers under the British Empire
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire
buff.ly
March 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
#WomensDay #WomenAtWork
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire, writes @Sohel Sarkar
In ‘Waiting on Empire’, Arunima Datta resurrects the largely forgotten travelling ayahs – one of the many groups of Southasian migrant workers in the British Empire, writes @Sohel Sarkar