Manan Ahmed Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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On B.B. Lal by Ashish Avikunthak author of *Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science, and Past in Postcolonial India* (Cambridge, 2021) https://t.co/ANkMszQv1A

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4/21: I will be part of a panel to discuss Travis Zadeh's terrific new work "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" Do stop by if you can: https://t.co/gNoobb2AUu

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Love this: Vidya Dehejia *India: A story through 100 objects* (@rolibooks, 2021) https://t.co/DftHSMiIfj

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Excellent rebuttal of eugenics’ new clothes in Kathryn Paige Harden’s book *The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality* https://twitter.com/nybooks/status/1509938685101461509

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@thaqafatalhind "buy low, sell high" or "location, location, location" [no experience with either personally or with money]

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Time would pass, old empires would fall and new ones take their place, the relations of countries and the relations of classes had to change, before I discovered that it is not quality of goods and utility which matter, but movement: — C. L. R. James, *Beyond a Boundary* (1963)

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*Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable* (@UWAPress 2022) by @iftikhardadi is such a welcome sight. Can’t wait to read it! Beautiful cover too. https://t.co/RLCGag1xgO

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Wonderful to read Ganeshdatta Poddar call *The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India* "making a case for a reassessment of histories of Hindustan by Hindustanis," in @jas_tw https://t.co/h6tkl9BHDl 🙏🏽 https://t.co/cFhpiborFw

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Very much looking forward to Margo Jefferson’s new memoir—really loved *Negroland* (2016)

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Solmaz Sharif’s new collection has a poem about arriving at the customs desk (reminds me very much of Agha Shahid Ali’s version—and don’t we all have one such verse inside us?) https://t.co/ZsUaJmWqbP