Menu of a state dinner hosted by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda for Maharaja Madhavrao Scindia I of Gwalior, at Makarpura Palace on 29 January 1897.
wow didn't realize recordings from the famous 1967 Hopkins conference featuring Derrida, Lacan, etc., were recently discovered & put online in 2023. you can hear not just the original lectures (Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play") but the discussions! https://t.co/w3KOEf8dQe
📢 Very pleased to announce a substantial update to Ideas of India. The index now covers 452 periodicals and contains upwards of 342,000 entries 📢
https://t.co/fQxvTgpoQL
Over 40 years ago, Edward Said sat down with a group of Palestinian women and in two minutes they laid out what is still the current situation -
🎥: excerpt from edward said’s ‘the shadow of the west’ (1983)
These records contain the names of the 225 Indians who, on this day 179 years ago, arrived in Trinidad. Aboard the “Fatel Razack” (Victory of Allah the Provider) for five months this group, mostly adults in their 20s, marked the start of Indian indentureship in 1845.
Some of my favorite digital archives
Emily Dickinson's Herbarium: https://t.co/8Wa38mmNpi…
Walter Benjamin Digital: https://t.co/1PoZfwP32U
Hannah Arendt's Papers: https://t.co/CIPp8LIR7U…
NYPL Digital Collections: https://t.co/BG1gpqT7Th
Another thread of maps I like. This time we are looking loosely at the Indian sub continent. Included are India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
First up, Rivers! 1/13