Neha Vermani
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Historian of Mughal material culture,food practices,senses,emotions & objects. Former @Britishacademy_ Fellow @unishefhistory. I frequently share snippets from my research on the Instagram handle consuming_history.
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I had to learn far too much about falconry in order to make sense of a long, extended falconry metaphor in a Kashmiri Sufi manuscript. It seems like a common knowledge we have lost over the years for it to be the metaphor by which the reader more easily understands nuances of the mystical path
Show PostThis is an excellent, critical review everyone should read to understand the damage done by such books reiterating the centering of “Indic” and “Sanskritic” to understanding South Asia’s diverse and complex past but also certain politics of domination today. Dalrymple should know better
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Annual requisite repost of Neha Vermani’s piece on how the turkey fowl made it from the New World to the Old, via the Mughal court, picking up various names along its route. In Arabic, turkey is still dīk rūmī, Roman/Christian/Greek rooster: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes....
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Shout out to the Bombay Jama Masjid library for being incredibly welcoming. Didn’t know what to expect but the librarians were super helpful & the catalogue is excellent. Among other things, it holds an collection of 19th c Urdu periodicals, beginning ~1870, especially but not only from Bombay.
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Amanda Herbert & @nehavermani.bsky.social explore global culinary translation, examining how European colonisers controlled spice routes & clashed with local practices of bodily autonomy. Using European and South Asian records they explore the use of spices & differing views of authenticity.
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