Dr Mrunmayee Satam

Assistant Professor of History at BITS Law School, Mumbai.
Views expressed are my own.
She/Her

[Dr Mrunmayee Satam @MrunmayeeC]

Pleased to share the publication of my article in EPW!

[Economic & Political Weekly @epw_in]

This essay examines the impact of Gandhian ideology on the development of public health infrastructure in Bombay city during the interwar period.
https://t.co/Sxe3aYDmlj

[YCAR @asia_york]

The applications for Postdoc Fellowship in Asian Studies have started, complete yours now for a chance at working and researching within YCAR!

🗓 Deadline: 30 April 2025
📅 Fellowship Start Date: 01 September 2025
📝 More Details: https://t.co/qBQrW0qkGL

#YorkU #YCAR

[Tony Kurian 👨‍🦯 @mtonykurian]

New political economy initiative at @iitbombay is hiring five research assistants. If you are interested in understanding economy from an interdisciplinary lens, do consider applying. Great opportunity for folks who are interested in pursuing a PhD. https://t.co/pmBsr9396J

[Ketaki Chowkhani, PhD @chowkhani]

Those in Manipal, do attend this exciting conference on Urban Futures held on 5th and 6th March, 2025 at Manipal Centre for Humanities!

[Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar @OxfordSAIH]

Please note this updated Term Card for Hilary 2025.

All Zoom links remain the same - can't wait to see you there!

[Fatima Khan @khanthefatima]

Historians and activists say there is enough proof that a person named Fatima Sheikh existed and worked alongside the Phules, and that denying that is an attempt to undermine Dalit-Muslim solidarity and erase Muslim contributions to Indian history.

https://t.co/28iEtHAd2i

[ASAP | art @asap_connect]

Babasaheb Kamble writes about his father, Basvant Kamble, a Dalit mill worker in 1970s-80s Mumbai, whose story reflects Dalit workers' pursuit of liberation through industrial jobs, despite new urban challenges.

https://t.co/tnASy35lMy

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

🚨 NEW! Independent Social Research Foundation Early Career Fellowship

Are you an independent or salaried scholar with original research ideas which take new approaches and suggest new solutions to real-world social problems?

Apply by 15 January 2025
https://t.co/c5ScfKnX3K

[Economic & Political Weekly @epw_in]

EPW Engage | In the recent past, histories of the working class in colonial Bombay city have garnered attention of researchers and academicians.
https://t.co/X4bP4BFBao

[NLSIU @NLSIUofficial]

Call for Applications | NLSIU invites applications for the third iteration of the Writing Urban India Fellowship.

Duration of the fellowship: 10 months
Application Deadline: December 25, 2024

Find out more and apply here: https://t.co/wefU8PjZLs

[Jayati Ghosh @Jayati1609]

Prof. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, one of the great intellectual giants of our times, whose sharp, insightful political economy analyses taught us so much about economic processes, is no more. We will greatly miss this major economist and wonderful warm human being.

[Chinmay Tumbe @ChinmayTumbe]

For those interested in business history, here's a big conference happening in Toronto in 2026. Details:
https://t.co/hjWK3la8vB

[The India Forum @TheIndiaForum]

An ode to a “forgotten” India which needs to be given its rightful place in a Euro-American-centric globe ends up replacing one form of cultural supremacy with another. @kikumbhar on @DalrympleWill's 'The Golden Road'
https://t.co/zhOM8RwfBl

[Economic & Political Weekly @epw_in]

2020 | Manual scavenging is a predominantly “forced” caste-based and hereditary occupation, which involves physical and manual removal of human excreta from dry latrines and sewers.

Read Shaileshkumar Darokar’s critical analysis.
https://t.co/QVLB1XEQ5C

[Cornell South Asia Program @SAPCornell]

Join us tomorrow 11/18! Ayesha Matthan presents “"Speculations on a Shirt":* The Photographic Ecology of the Working Classes in Bombay/Mumbai/Bambai, 1970s-1990s" at 12:15 pm in G08 Uris Hall. Details at: https://t.co/gNpkSqy5AT

[AIIS @AIISIndia]

📢 CFP! The South Asian Studies Council at Yale University's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies invites submissions for the 2025 Modern South Asia Workshop, June 7-8, 2025. Travel, accommodation, and meals provided to selected candidates. https://t.co/kxOglqf646

[Samyak Ghosh 🌈 @GhoshSamyak]

Voices : WhatsApp history is a hydra but don’t blame Indian academics https://t.co/0P1fRRjd7K

Some of you asked for the link to access my TOI article. Here it is. Glad that this is being read, shared, and discussed. We need public history conversations in South Asia!

[Samyak Ghosh 🌈 @GhoshSamyak]

Here are four books by four academic historians who write legibly for an audience beyond academia. Most of them have been doing this for decades, and at least one of them also writes in an Indian language other than English.

Read these books if you haven’t already!

[Khidki Collective @Khidki_Deccan]

We are happy to announce the "Writing for Public: A Workshop". If you are an MA/PhD/early career academic looking to learn to write for non-academic publics, this *free* workshop is for you. Apply by 20 Nov 2024 by writing to us at [email protected]

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Early career academic working at the intersection of no sleep and lower back pain

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Academia be like