Aditya Shinde

Researcher | History, Foreign Policy | JNU’23, @gwucolumbian | Bombay, Washington D.C.

[Reading@2000 @the7424]

Finally we have a biography on the brilliant D D Kosambi.

[Divya Ravindranath @divyarrs]

There are many ways to read a city. Here’s a postcard mapping Mumbai through women’s writing (fiction) — stories that take us across trains, apartments, overbridges, memory, intimacy, labour, migration, ambition, and everyday life. 1.

[Aditya Shinde @adityads18]

If only I had read Locke before moving into a JNU hostel.

[Sugata Srinivasaraju @sugataraju]

Peasants to universities, nothing escaped Andre Beteille’s lens, writes Dipankar Gupta
Link: https://t.co/sLjUFqdUX9

[Purvi @shayar_ka_khwab]

Rabindranath Togore's letter to his friend-
Last line beautifully advocating importance of doing nothing once in a while.

[Aditya Shinde @adityads18]

I’m happy to share that I’ve been accepted into the History PhD program at @gwucolumbian
I look forward to contributing to the vibrant intellectual community at GWU and exploring new dimensions in historical research, especially in the areas of South Asian and Jewish history.

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

For historian Jim Masselos (1940-2025), Mumbai was a city that was both his archive and his muse https://t.co/x3Nsvs4BxF via @scroll_in

[Gateway House @GatewayHouseIND]

In its election manifesto, @BJP4Maharashtra set a goal of transforming #Maharashtra into a $1 trillion economy by 2028.

@adityads18 writes that to achieve this, the state needs increase its #FDI inflow & boost manufacturing over the next 4 years.
https://t.co/DXuLoz8ash

[Gateway House @GatewayHouseIND]

Last month, #Adani Power halved its electricity supply to #Bangladesh owing to outstanding dues of $790 million.

@AmitBhandari79 & @adityads18 highlight how 🇧🇩's weak balance of payments & ongoing economic problems are impacting the energy sector as well. https://t.co/bMeb4fx6lI

[Gateway House @GatewayHouseIND]

India’s #ActEastPolicy and its priorities for the #Northeast are closely tied to the on-ground realities in #Myanmar.

We present an interactive timeline that tracks cross-border dynamics between #India's Northeast & #Myanmar after the 2021 military coup: https://t.co/jCCK7ChaSy

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

Growing old with Kumar Gandharva: My column in @ttindia :
https://t.co/eLUTzgML02

[Gateway House @GatewayHouseIND]

Nearly 20 workers were killed in an armed attack on a mine in #Baluchistan earlier today.

@AmitBhandari79 & @adityads18 analyse how economic neglect in #Pakistan's resource-rich periphery is fueling local dissent that can turn into secessionist tendencies https://t.co/kZDpxJIOf0

[Aditya Shinde @adityads18]

6/6 In the end, Gandhi humorously suggested that Silverman pitch his case to Jinnah, highlighting the comparable demands. Both Israel and Pakistan would eventually emerge as religious states shaped by these debates.

[Aditya Shinde @adityads18]

1/6 Faisal Devji, in Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea, recounts a 1946 conversation between #Zionist leader Sydney Silverman and #Gandhi. Silverman sought Gandhi's support for a Jewish national home in #Palestine, claiming Jews were the only nation without a country

[Aditya Shinde @adityads18]

In 1957, Bombay #Zionist Association organised a meeting to celebrate #GandhiJayanti
Source: Times of India Archives

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5/6 Gandhi observed the similarities between the Jewish and Muslim nationalist arguments, noting that both movements asked majorities to make sacrifices for minority populations.

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In 1957, Bombay #Zionist Association organised a meeting to celebrate #GandhiJayanti
Source: Times of India Archives

[Tribune @tribunemagazine]

Eric Hobsbawm — who died on this day in 2012 — is often described as a great historian despite his Marxism, but the opposite is true: Hobsbawm's Marxist perspective imbued his work with a unique historical understanding. https://t.co/Lnp7huyukD