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MEA Restrictions on Online Events Reflect 'New Level of Paranoia on the Part of Indian State'


MEA Restrictions on Online Events Reflect New Level of Paranoia on the Part of Indian State
Academics based in India will be under more pressure. Academics based outside India will be discouraged from working on India, as they are today from working on Iran, or other countries which use such intimidation , says UCLA historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
Representative image of a virtual conference on an online platform. Photo: Chris Montgomery/Unsplash, (CC BY-SA)
Rights13/Feb/2021
New Delhi: Revised official guidelines which state that India’s publicly-funded universities, professors and administrators need prior approval from the Ministry of External Affairs if they want to hold online international conferences or seminars on matter relating to the security of the Indian state or issues which are “clearly related to India’s internal matters”, have drawn flak from leading academics and organisations in the United States. ....

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Mohammed Shakeb: Preserver of Mughal Archival Documents and Reconstructor of Libraries


Mohammed Shakeb: Preserver of Mughal Archival Documents and Reconstructor of Libraries
A tribute to a polymath historian who recently passed away.
Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb at the Qutb Shahi tombs in Hyderabad, October 2013. Photo: Author provided
History10/Feb/2021
I first met Dr Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb in the summer of 2011, as a naïve PhD student who’d arrived in Hyderabad from Los Angeles wanting to “read Shah Jahan’s documents”. He asked me the very standard question asked of research students in India, “What is your topic?”
I only had a rather incoherent answer to give to Shakeb, the man who had, among other things, created the Mughal Record Room, in what is today known as the Telangana State Archives. Located in a nondescript building at the periphery of the Osmania University campus in the dusty precinct of Tarnaka, this institution has undergone numerous transformations over the course of a half-century of its exi ....

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