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Nov 29, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Jonny Steinberg |Joya Chatterji |Nandini Das |Nicholas Radburn
recommended by Diarmaid MacCulloch WINNER OF the 2024 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji To win the Wolfson History Prize, a book must be both original and accessible to the general reader.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
apollo-magazine.com | Nandini Das
Shah Jahan as the King of World (c. 1628–30; detail), Bichitr. From the Minto Album, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Charlotte Walker |Joya Chatterji |Nandini Das |Nicholas Radburn
This morning we awake to news of the 2024 shortlist for The Wolfson History Prize. Showcasing six of the best history books from the past year, The Wolfson History Prize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK. This is its 52nd year celebrating books that demonstrate the relevance to today's society of history and historical writing.
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May 8, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Nandini Das
It is only right that this wonderful book opens with the story of a cartographer—William Baffin, whose name would later be given to Qikiqtaaluk in present-day Nunavut—poring over rivers, coastlines and blank spaces places he hardly (or indeed, never) knew.
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Nandini Das
Academic and author Nandini Das calls her visit to Calcutta, after six years, “bittersweet”. “I grew up in Calcutta, but the kind of drive to come back to Calcutta has lessened since my parents died.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nandini Das
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nandini Das
In the early 1730s, a new subscription craze transformed Georgian Britain. Every year, for five guineas, “Bartram’s box” would delight plant collectors and gardeners with seeds from among a hundred different North American species. The supply chain had a Pennsylvanian Quaker, John Bartram, at one end and another Quaker, English merchant Peter Collinson, at the other.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Nandini Das
Photograph: Jan Sochor/AlamyIn the early 1730s, a new subscription craze transformed Georgian Britain. Every year, for five guineas, “Bartram’s box” would delight plant collectors and gardeners with seeds from among a hundred different North American species. The supply chain had a Pennsylvanian Quaker, John Bartram, at one end and another Quaker, English merchant Peter Collinson, at the other.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
apollo-magazine.com | Nandini Das
A mid 17th-century painting attributed to the Mughal artist Abid shows Prince Khurram (who would become the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan) bidding farewell to his father, the emperor Jahangir, before departing for his first military campaign in the Deccan. The royal figures appear on a high balcony, attended by a solitary figure. The pale background behind them shimmers with delicate gold ornamentation.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
fivebooks.com | Halik Kochanski |Tania Branigan |Beverly Gage |Nandini Das
“It’s comprehensive, and that’s very important because a problem with history writing in general, but particularly with resistance, is that it tends to be written from a nation-centric point of view…But this was a pan-European movement and what she does really well is to identify first of all the commonalities. In all of these countries, when you look at underground resistance movements, similar things happened.
