🔔New publication in the ICAS:MP @universitypress.cambridge.org Series! We are pleased to share 'The Silent Rebellion: Labour, Caste, and Education in Colonial India' by our former fellow Arun Kumar. Learn more: micasmp.hypotheses.org/the-silent-r...

📢 CFP: Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants @maxweberstiftung.de for early-career researchers in the humanities & social sciences. • Research across 2–3 MWS host countries • Archival and library stays 📅Deadline: 4 Oct 26 karierre.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/2638b828d076616bb98ad70c119c9c918653c8ad1

Podcast episode! Mousumi Mukherjee is in conversation with Geetha B. Nambissan, Nandini Manjrekar, and Shivali Tukdeo on Shifting Landscapes: Education and Urban Transformations in India, published in the ICAS:MP – CUP book series. @ghilondon.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1AKH...

ICAS:MP was pleased to represent at the Inaugural event of the new BMFTR framework programme “Orientierung für eine Welt im Wandel” in Berlin alongside fellow Merian Centres. @mecila.bsky.social @calascenter.bsky.social @miasa-ug.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de

We are pleased to share a review of the ICAS:MP volume Shifting Landscapes: Education and Urban Transformations in India (@universitypress.cambridge.org), published in Economic & Political Weekly. Read the review by Geeta Thatra: www.epw.in/journal/2026... @ghilondon.bsky.social

ICAS:MP hosted the public lecture “Beyond Shipwreck: Salvage and Global History in the Long Nineteenth Century” by Roland Wenzlhuemer (@globaldiscnct.bsky.social). Chaired by Radhika Singha, the lecture explored maritime salvage and its significance for global history. 📸 Highlights below.

🖐️ICAS:MP invites you to the public lecture on “Touching Care: Gandhi and the Art of Healing the Leprous Body” with Sumathi Ramaswamy, and Projit Mukharji as discussant. 🗓️19 March 2026 |6 PM 📍IIC Delhi Register: ujjwal.arora@mwsindia.org

🌊ICAS:MP Public Lecture Join us on 10.03.2026 at 6 PM at the IIC Annexe, Delhi for a public lecture by Roland Wenzlhuemer @globaldiscnct.bsky.social on “Beyond Shipwreck: Salvage and Global History in the Long Nineteenth Century”. Discussant: Radhika Singha (retd. JNU/@s-nu.bsky.social). 1/2

ICAS:MP, in collaboration with the @germanyinindia.bsky.social & the High Commission of Malta in New Delhi, hosted a screening of Baħar Biss (Just Sea) by Franziska von Stenglin on 12 February. The screening was followed by a conversation with the filmmaker and Delhi-based artist, Pallavi Paul. 1/2

🎉New Open Access Book We are pleased to announce the publication of Crafting India’s Skill Ecology: Reproductions, Recalibrations, and Reimaginations, edited by Saikat Maitra & Sebastian Schwecke @mwfdelhi.bsky.social, under @routledgebooks.bsky.social. 🔓 www.routledge.com/Crafting-Ind...

📢We are excited to announce the launch of Sober State: Origins of Alcohol Prohibition in India by @darinee.bsky.social, published under the ICAS:MP – @universitypress.cambridge.org. 🔗https://micasmp.hypotheses.org/darinee-alagirisamy-sober-state-origins-of-alcohol-prohibition-in-india-2

📸 Fellows’ Colloquium Siddharth Pandey, the first Joint Fellow of the @globaldiscnct.bsky.social & ICAS:MP, presented his work on “Movement, Materiality and Weather-Worlds of Vitality: Towards an Affective Himalayan Humanities”. Thanks to Mihir Vatsa (IIT Delhi) for his valuable comments.

📘Review of our newly published book! Read Gunjan Sharma’s review of Shifting Landscapes: Education and Urban Transformations in India in SAGE Journals. Edited by Geetha B. Nambissan, Nandini Manjrekar, Shivali Tukdeo & Indra Sengupta. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @ghilondon.bsky.social

Glimpses from the📕discussion 'Shifting Landscapes: Education & Urban Transformations in India’, held on 8 Dec. Ed. by Geetha B. Nambissan (JNU Delhi), Nandini Manjrekar (TISS), Shivali Tukdeo(Mahindra University) & Indra Sengupta @ghilondon.bsky.social. Thanks to Manabi Majumdar & Ghazala Jamil.

🚨Conference Announcement Join the @mecila.bsky.social Centre Conference 2025, 11–13 Dec at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. 🔗Register: mecila.net/en/mecila-berlin-conference-2025 @calascenter.bsky.social, @miasa-ug.bsky.social, MECAM, @giga-hamburg.de, Humanities Centre: Futures of Sustainability.

Join us for the book discussion of Shifting Landscapes: Education and Urban Transformations in India on 8 December. Edited by Geetha B. Nambissan (JNU Delhi), Nandini Manjrekar (TISS), Shivali Tukdeo(Mahindra University) & Indra Sengupta @ghilondon.bsky.social.

📢Call for Papers We invite scholars to apply for the international workshop “Empire and (Im-)Mobility in South & South-East Asia (19th–20th Centuries)”, in New Delhi on 6–7 Feb. Deadline: 9 Nov @globaldiscnct.bsky.social @mwfdelhi.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social 🔗 micasmp.hypotheses.org/15173

Call for Papers: ‘Empire and (Im-)Mobility in South and South-East Asia (19th and 20th Centuries)

New Delhi, 6-7 February 2026 Conveners: Harald Fischer-Tine and Siddharth Pandey Deadline for Proposals: November 9, 2025 In fundamental ways, colonial empires were all about mobility. The functioning...

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ICAS:MP met the ‘Merian family’ in Tunis & had an enriching week of dialogue on knowledge diplomacy & South–South–North cooperation incl. attending a conference on Peace and Conflict Studies by the Postcolonial Hierarchies project. Thank you, MECAM, CALAS,@mecila.bsky.social & @miasa-ug.bsky.social.

📢 Call for Papers “Empire and (Im-)Mobility in South and South-East Asia (19th–20th C.)” Workshop in New Delhi, 6–7 Feb 2026 Deadline: 9 Nov 2025 Hosted by @icasmp.bsky.social, MWF Delhi & gd:c Conveners: Harald Fischer-Tiné & Siddharth Pandey #CallForPapers #GlobalHistory #MobilityStudies

The past few days the MIASA team participated in the #Merian Family meeting hosted by #MECAM in Tunis to discuss topics around Knowledge Diplomacy & South-South-North Cooperations together with all of its Merian sister centres. @icasmp.bsky.social @mecila.bsky.social

The International Symposium: Interrogating the Present will see leading scholars from Krea University, @icasmp.bsky.social, @soasuni.bsky.social & @iias.bsky.social engage in meaningful dialogue on collaborative research. 📍 Krea University | 11–12 Sept 2025 🌐 micasmp.hypotheses.org/14879

📢New in our @universitypress.cambridge.org series Shifting Landscapes: Education and Urban Transformations in India by Geetha B. Nambissan (JNU Delhi), Nandini Manjrekar (TISS), Shivali Tukdeo(Mahindra University) & Indra Sengupta @ghilondon.bsky.social Open Access www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Krea University, @icasmp.bsky.social, @soasuni.bsky.social, & @iias.bsky.social are coming together for the International Symposium: Interrogating the Present (11–12 Sept). A space to strengthen interdisciplinary and transnational academic collaboration. 🌐https://micasmp.hypotheses.org/14879

The book is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 🔓 It is part of a collaborative publishing series of @cambridge.org with @icasmp.bsky.social. 9/10

Out now! 📘 Shifting Landscapes: Education and Urban Transformations in India, edited by GHIL Senior Research Fellow and Head of our India Research Programme Indra Sengupta, Geetha B. Nambissan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), 1/10

🚨Applications close TODAY! ICAS:MP Fellowships 2026–27 Submit your completed application before 23:59 IST, 15 July 2025. 🔗Final call: karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/d... ⏰ No extensions. #ICASMP #LastCall #AcademicFellowships

⏳5 days left! Are you ready to submit your ICAS:MP Fellowship application? Review your proposal, polish your documents, and upload everything in a single PDF. 📅Deadline: 15 July 2025 🔗 karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/d...

#CfA ICAS:MP Fellowships for the Academic Year 2026/27 📌Writing fellowships for Post-PhD scholars in New Delhi | research fields relevant for the @icasmp.bsky.social and related to #SocialSciences or #Humanities | awarded by @mwfdelhi.bsky.social Deadline: 15 July 2025 🔗 karriere.maxwebersti...

📢Call for Applications: ICAS:MP Fellowships 2026–27 Apply now for a residential writing fellowship at ICAS:MP, New Delhi: karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/d... @mwfdelhi.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @ghilondon.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de @unierfurt.bsky.social

Private papers of Muhammad Mujeeb (1902-1985) are now public. We begin with a Bio-Biographical Introduction. Photographs and private correspondences in Urdu, German and English will follow tazkirajamia.hypotheses.org/m-mujeeb-pri... @icasmp.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social @ddhankhar.bsky.social

M. Mujeeb Private Papers

The Archive M. Mujeeb’s private papers are still with his family. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks for the permission to publish this very large and varied selection. Private Papers Muham...

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