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This is the first post in a new blog series that I am launching after my retirement from NYU, to continue my Global Asia Program work as an independent author. It will present opinion pieces and academic essays. Here goes. The NYU Global Asia Program has brought...

Roman Empire Indian Ocean Connections to Asian Trade: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea Turkic Migrations (550-1200). In 552 a powerful new Turkic confederacy developed in the Altai Mountains. It spread from China to the Caspian Sea, pushing Bulgarian and Slav nomad...

On "colonialism versus empire" as frames for modern South Asian History. "Colonialism" literally refers to an ideology or process of producing and maintaining colonies; it seems to be applied exclusively to European colonies, going back to Greek and Roman times, when...

The colonization of World History began when Europeans carried their own peculiar forms of historical knowledge production deep into all the continents. Colonized History thus developed so as to privilege Europe, its colonies, and their relations with “others.”...

2024. Sept 13. 10:15AM-12:15PM, Cantor Center (36 E. 8th St.), Rm. 102. Presentation: “Globalization, Religion, and Ethnonationalism” This presentation is part of a research project in the NYU Global Asia Program on Troubled National Territories. Over many centuries,...

Dina Siddiqi, “Bangladesh’s Second Independence: A Personal Account.” in the Funambulist (a platform that engages with the politics of space and bodies) Naveeda Khan,  HERE is her Blog.  “Mental Sickness”: Facing Authoritarian...

“The Guest House” ,  by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they’re a crowd of...

Michael Goebel Sep 8, 2016: After Empire Must Come Nation? Afro-Asian Visions New Perspectives on Decolonisation, the Cold War, and Asian-African Connection

… leaving the present; by going back into the heretofore, by beginning again…. The historical experience is not one of staying in the present and looking back.  Rather it is one of going back into the past and returning to the present with a wider and more intense...

It is with great sadness that I must record the passing of my dear friend and fun inspiration, David Washbrook, on 24 January, 2021. Here is the condolence website. Here are tributes by Sanjay Subramanyam in HIMAL, by William Pinch in H-Net, by Samita...

Data from Statistical abstract relating to British India, in DIGITAL SOUTH ASIA LIBRARY (DSAL). Figures for total ship transit through suez (History of the Suez Canal Company, 1858-2008: Between Controversy and Utility, by Par Hubert Bonin, 2010, Publications...

Google Earth Projects: Sri Lanka, Silk Road Central, Tambraparni Valley, Cholera Google Maps Project Link.