The Parallel Campaign

Freedom and fragility

Anniversary feels, and narratives about the national self

Aug 15, 2021 • The Parallel Campaign

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July 2021

Health hath no fury: Part III

Hollow promises in independent India

Jul 18, 2021 • The Parallel Campaign

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Health hath no fury: Part II

A tale of two pandemics, and the future of our own

Jul 11, 2021 • The Parallel Campaign

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Health hath no fury: Part I

Public health and the value of human life in 19th-century India

Jul 9, 2021 • The Parallel Campaign

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March 2021

The Authors of India’s Past

What itihasa can teach us about authority and the farmers’ protests

Mar 23, 2021 • The Parallel Campaign

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January 2021

Wedded to the Republic

What the history of marriage laws reveals about equality and difference in India

Jan 26, 2021 • The Parallel Campaign

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October 2020

In the line of FIR(e)

Perspectives on the (colonial) history of policing

Oct 11, 2020 • The Parallel Campaign

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September 2020

The Stealing of Skin

Love Jihad, Abducted Women, and Hindutva

Sep 27, 2020 • The Parallel Campaign

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Shuddh, saaf, and the nation as forgetting

The origins of the schism in Hindustani

Sep 13, 2020 • The Parallel Campaign

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August 2020

Begum Urdu, Mother India, and Modern Social Thought

How medieval poetic drag influenced anticolonial nationalism (amongst other things)

Aug 30, 2020 • The Parallel Campaign

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India, but of whose imagination?

Introducing ourselves, and the drunk uncle of Indian history

Aug 16, 2020 • The Parallel Campaign

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