Assyrian imperialism is closely associated with the practice of mass deportation. This practice has been explained by recourse to many different motivations. But can we hope to pinpoint the logic informing deportation rather than merely identifying its advantages? This paper surveys the evidence of deportation in the Levant in the period 745–620 B…[Read more]

This chapter is published within Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives, ed. Porck and Soper. Please email me if you would like to cite it and I will send you a PDF with page numbers.

On May 21, 2012, more than 52 Dalit-backward families were forced to leave their village after a dispute with dominant caste people in Bhagana (Bhagana) village of Haryana. The dispute started with the removal of possession of Shamlat land. The dominant community had socially boycotted them. Two years after this incident, on March 23, 2014, 4…[Read more]

21 मई 2012 को हरियाणा के भगाना (भगाणा) गांव में दबंग जाति के लोगों से विवाद के बाद दलित-पिछड़े परिवारों के 52 से ज्यादा परिवारों को अपना गांव छोड़ने पर मजबूर होना पड़ा था। विवाद की शुरूआत शामलात जमीन पर कब्जा हटवाने को लेकर हुई थी। दबंग समुदाय ने उनका हुक्का पानी बंद कर दिया था। इस घटना के 2 साल बाद 23 मार्च 2014 को भगाना गांव की धानुक समुदाय की…[Read more]

Though English supporters of the Oxford theologian John Wycliffe (d.1384)—known as “Lollards”—had been drawn from academic and noble/gentry circles during the later-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, persecution, equation of heresy with sedition, and the failure of Sir John Oldcastle’s Rebellion (1414) ensured overt abandonment of Lollard i…[Read more]

यह कविता पुस्तिका पटना से प्रकाशित मासिक पत्रिका ‘जन विकल्प’ के प्रवेशांक (जनवरी, 2007) के साथ नि:शुल्क वितरित की गई थी।
जन विकल्प का प्रकाशन पटना से जनवरी, 2007 से दिसंबर, 2007 तक हुआ।पत्रिका के संपादक प्रेमकुमार और प्रमोद रंजन थे।

उपरोक्त इस कविता-पुस्तिका की भूमिका रति सक्सेना लिखी है, जो निम्नांकित है : “पेरिया परसिया, सेता…[Read more]

The article examines regulations for »order« at the princely courts in the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century and asks how these prescriptive documents sought to establish “good order” at court. Special attention is paid to the theological justifications of order as well as the confessionality and the confessional character of court orders. T…[Read more]

The formalization of sound changes as finite state transducers is implicit already in the Neogrammarians. For at least six decades scholars have recognized the potential of transducers for improving the speed and rigor of research in historical linguists, but almost no historical linguists actually use them. This article identifies the obstacles…[Read more]

जून, 2018 के पहले सप्ताह में फारवर्ड प्रेस के पत्रकार नवल किशोर कुमार फोन पर सैकडों लोगों ने जान से मारने की धमकियां दी थीं। उन्हें ये धमकियां रणवीर सेना के कुख्यात सुप्रीमो ब्रह्मेश्वर मुखिया के बारे में फेसबुक पोस्ट लिखने के कारण दी गईं थीं। फारवर्ड प्रेस के तत्कालीन प्रबंध संपादक प्रमोद रंजन का यह लेख उन धमकियों के संदर्भ में है।

Forward Press is not a novice when it comes to getting threats. Our Hindi editor Naval Kishore Kumar, who is at the receiving end this time, is not only a journalist but also a sensitive poet. Brahmeshwar Mukhiya, on the other hand, is a synonym for terror and has shamed humanity.

भारत सरकार के 2014 के बजट के बाद अनेक प्रकार की प्रतिक्रियाएं उत्पन्न आईं थीं, लेकिन कम लोग जानते हैं कि दलित उद्योगपतियों ने इस बजट का स्वागत किया था।

बजट पर प्रतिक्रिया देने वाले अधिकांश बुद्धिजीवियों का कहना था कि भाजपा सरकार ने पिछली यूपीए सरकार की आर्थिक नीतियों का ही अनुसरण किया है।

लेकिन हम जानते हैं कि इन प्रतिक्रियाओं को व्यक…[Read more]

Indian government’s budget, 2014 has evoked diverse reactions, and the Dalit industrialists have welcomed it.

Dalit industrialists have heard some people claiming that The new BJP government has only followed the economic policies of the previous UPA government. But they know the interests these people represent. If the new government is t…[Read more]

This is a prologue to the Spanish translation of Joanna Zylinska’s The End of Man. A Feminist Counter-Apocalypse (2019).

The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

This paper examines a strand in British television historical drama that presents what I term a “Gothicised” version of history. This actively engages with historical trauma as returning to confront its originating society, as the classic Gothic text represents the returning or ongoing effects of a traumatic past in the narrative present. In Peaky…[Read more]

This paper considers the 2018 television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock as an example of Gothicised historical television drama, which uses the Gothic mode to present a past in a way that challenges our expectations of what prestige historical drama should be like, and to emphasise historical traumas and the way that they are still relevant…[Read more]