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Freedom and fragility
Anniversary feels, and narratives about the national self
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July 2021

Health hath no fury: Part III
Hollow promises in independent India
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Health hath no fury: Part II
A tale of two pandemics, and the future of our own
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Health hath no fury: Part I
Public health and the value of human life in 19th-century India
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March 2021

The Authors of India’s Past
What itihasa can teach us about authority and the farmers’ protests
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January 2021

Wedded to the Republic
What the history of marriage laws reveals about equality and difference in India
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October 2020

In the line of FIR(e)
Perspectives on the (colonial) history of policing
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September 2020

The Stealing of Skin
Love Jihad, Abducted Women, and Hindutva
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Shuddh, saaf, and the nation as forgetting
The origins of the schism in Hindustani
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August 2020

Begum Urdu, Mother India, and Modern Social Thought
How medieval poetic drag influenced anticolonial nationalism (amongst other things)
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India, but of whose imagination?
Introducing ourselves, and the drunk uncle of Indian history
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