Dr. Trishula Rachna Patel

Associate Prof of African History @UofDenver | former @FulbrightAssoc @AHAhistorians fellow | @GUhistory @columbiajourn @Penn alum | 🇿🇼 | all views my own

[Dr. Trishula Rachna Patel @trishulapatel]

Author's Corner with Trishula Rachna Patel, author of BECOMING ZIMBABWEAN https://t.co/KdRQgqfT49

[Tatenda Mashanda @tatendamashanda]

Who counts as Zimbabwean? @trishulapatel 's Becoming Zimbabwean takes up the question through the Indians of Rhodesia, a community most histories write out. She dug through the archives and listened to the people who lived it. Full review to come.

[Chipo Dendere @drDendere]

A year of Zimbabwean academic authors.

I have devoured the other 3 and wrote the 4th.

Works By
@SimuChigudu
@trishulapatel
@MilesTendi
@drDendere
You can read them in any order or
1. Becoming
2. Chasing
3. Death
4. The Overthrow
Nhasi ndezveduwo. Itai Makorokoto kwatiri

[Harare Book Club 📖 @HarareBookClub]

We are very excited to launch our 2026 book list! We are traveling from Cameroon, Mutare, Mogadishu, Lagos, to Sweden, Harlem, London, Toronto across generations, centuries and through cosmology, dreams and history! Come along for the ride!

[Petina Gappah @VascoDaGappah]

One of my vows this year is to do something with the fantastic @HarareBookClub.

Thrilled to see 2026 includes books by @JCObioma, J Makumbi's KINTU and my new fav writer @trishulapatel who has written a brilliant history of Indians in Zimbabwe.

Please join them! I mean us!

[Dr. Trishula Rachna Patel @trishulapatel]

@VascoDaGappah Thank you so much Petina! I actually sent you an email a few weeks ago (got your contact from @drDendere) - let me know if you didn’t get it and I’ll send again!

[Dr. Trishula Rachna Patel @trishulapatel]

Author's Corner with Trishula Rachna Patel, author of BECOMING ZIMBABWEAN https://t.co/KdRQgqfT49

[The Syllabus @syllabus_tweets]

Zohran Mamdani’s story is a bold challenge to rigid identity boxes. As a Ugandan-born, Indian American democratic socialist, he weaves his migration history into a political identity that celebrates transnationalism.

By @trishulapatel in @AHAhistorians

https://t.co/bXQuCBVk4e

[UVA Press @uvapress]

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[UVA Press @uvapress]

Stop by our booth at #AHA! Peruse our books, chat with an editor, explore our digital content, and take advantage of the conference discount!

#twitterstorians

[UVA Press @uvapress]

Read an interview with the author! https://t.co/dgbCuWP1E7

[UVA Press @uvapress]

Happy #pubday to "Becoming Zimbabwean: A History of Indians in Rhodesia" by Trishula Rachna Patel! @trishulapatel

The first comprehensive history of Indian migrants and their descendants in Zimbabwe

https://t.co/xgm9yXtenX

#booktwitter

[Chipo Dendere @drDendere]

Highly recommend Trish Patel’s becoming Zimbabwean a nuanced & beautifully written book on the history of Zimbabwean-Indians. Had me weeping in the end. Read it in just two days because it is that good. Highly recommend. The story about the struck plane in 1979 😭complicated!

[Dr. Trishula Rachna Patel @trishulapatel]

@British_Care__ This is a scam and I have reported you

[Dr. Trishula Rachna Patel @trishulapatel]

@British_Airways Again, how is this helpful?

[Dr. Trishula Rachna Patel @trishulapatel]

@British_Airways @British_Airways the last time I was significantly delayed like this I contacted your customer relations team and never heard back from them. If you actually want to do something, contact me directly.

[Dr. Trishula Rachna Patel @trishulapatel]

@British_Airways What help is that with the delays, exactly? I’m getting home two days later than I planned and now I’m facing even more delays

[Dr. Trishula Rachna Patel @trishulapatel]

It is available for preorder here:

UVA Press website: https://t.co/ioi3qta7gA

Barnes and Noble: https://t.co/w3fhcYaoXL

Amazon: https://t.co/AeHSH7N1Y1

Very grateful to everyone who helped me get here!

[Dr. Trishula Rachna Patel @trishulapatel]

Excited to share that my book, Becoming Zimbabwean: A History of Indians in Rhodesia, will be published in January 2026 by @uvapress!

[Dr. Trishula Rachna Patel @trishulapatel]

It’s based on research I did for my dissertation, which I have spent the past two years rewriting and revising. In other words, it’s been a long time coming, and I cannot wait to share the history of my family, my community, and my country with the world in Spring 2026!

[Dr. Trishula Rachna Patel @trishulapatel]

Thrilled to announce that my book, “Becoming Zimbabwean: A History of Indians in Zimbabwe, 1890-1980” is officially under contract with the @uvapress Reconsiderations in Southern African History series!