Reeju Ray reads Boats in a Storm eloquently in this wonderful review for Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History - rg.lhlt.mpg.de/index.php/rg...

A careful, generous and insightful review of Boats by Sumedha Chowdhry @MelbLawSchool in Statelessness and Citizenship Review, pointing out the enduring legacies of wartime displacement in S Asia today: statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...

Fantastic lineup for Columbia's Legal History Workshop 2024 - '25: www.law.columbia.edu/faculty-scho...

First round of archival work in south India as an ACLS Fellow for 2024 - '25:

I didn't get to watch either Pa Ranjith's Thangalaan or Mari Selvaraj's Vaazhai on the big screen, but they are right up there on my must-watch list.

A quick geography refresher lesson for journalists covering Kamala Harris 🌠

Artists Anamika and Ramachandran reimagine a Nagarathar dowry. Location: Dakshin Chitra, Chennai.

Old location for the Puducherry archives on Rue Romain Rolland.

Churuna (scroll) case. Central Archives, Trivandrum.

Just finishing up an essay on Mergui / Myeik in the mid-nineteenth century, and came across this gorgeous note on its status as an abandoned province of the Br. Burma empire: blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-af...

Better than a Pearl: a letter to the Bayinkan of Burma from the people of Mergui

This guest blog is by Jim Potter, an independent researcher who studies the history of Tenasserim, and Ni Ni Aung, a resident of Myeik (Mergui), who assisted in the translation, transcription and inte...