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11
May
2022

Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making...

Earlier this year, my first book, Sex and the Making of the British Empire, originally published in 2006 gained some attention because of Bridgerton’s second season on Netflix. My book was about women...
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30
Mar
2022

Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan

Sex, gender, and sexuality. What sense have different people, institutions, and the state made of these terms since the late nineteenth century? To the medical doctors, scientists, social reformers, and...
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15
Apr
2021

India and the World

How to view the history of India in a global perspective ? One answer is to frame it within a project of ‘provincialisation’ of Europe as advocated by Dipesh Chakrabarty. But there is an alternative...
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25
Mar
2021

Telling the Story of the Chinese Communist Party

How to tell the story of the Chinese Communist Party? It’s the biggest, oldest, and most powerful Communist Party in the world today and it turns 100 this year. It runs China, and that alone should...
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1
Sep
2020

Why are there reeducation camps for Uighurs but...

Since mid-2017, reports of massive “re-education camps” in Xinjiang province have set off global outcries over the mistreatment of Muslim Uighurs in western China. Promoted as schools for deradicalization...
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13
Jul
2020

A Hygienic City-Nation

As a global pandemic rages through the world suspending everyday life, it is worth looking back in time to analyse how perceptions of disease, hygiene, self-improvement, and city planning manifested historically...
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21
Feb
2020

The Past is Never Dead: History and Power in...

In ancient China, the past was ubiquitous. In the thousands of texts that have survived, between the commemorative inscriptions of the Bronze Age elite, the gnomic sayings of Confucius, and the pronouncements...
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12
Nov
2019

Financing Colonial Rule in Asia and Africa

No state can do without taxation. States need to pay for bureaucrats, soldiers, policemen, infrastructure, and the more ambitious ones also pay for schools, hospitals and social security programs. Fiscal...
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