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Why are there reeducation camps for Uighurs but not Tibetans in China?
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...
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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 get...
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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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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,...
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Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire
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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Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857–1940s
In 1872, the night before a meeting about the progress of education among Indian Muslims, Nawab Mohsin ul-Mulk (1837-1907) woke up and realised that his companion, the famous Muslim reformer Syed Ahmed...
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What happened to the Persianate in the age of nationalism?
In my recent book The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India (Cambridge University Press, 2023), I set out to accomplish several things. I wanted to write...
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Chinese History through the Nose
How did past environments, objects, and people smell? What can aromas and stenches tell us about history and culture? Scents of China takes you on a smell-walk through modern Chinese history, tracing...
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Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839 – 1403 CE
While Muslim traders from the Arabic world and Jewish traders in the Mediterranean have enjoyed a long-established reputation for business acumen, Buddhist traders maintain a rather obscure position in...
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The Hajj in the Age of Revolutions
The “age of revolutions” was a global era. Around the world between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new states and empires supplanted old regimes. The implications of those...
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