#south asian history

[kaalbela]

Abbas Attar's photographs of Dhaka on December 16, 1971: when the Pakistani Armed Forces finally surrendered to Mukti Bahini, ending the nine-month Liberation War and 1971 Bangladesh genocide and marking the official secession of East Pakistan to become the new state of Bangladesh. Bangladesh commemorates this day as Victory Day (বিজয় দিবস) to honour the martyrs who laid their lives down in the war.

#বিজয় দিবসের অনেক শুভেচ্ছা সকলকে #and one day we will celebrate a victory day for palestine #bangladesh #bangla tag #victory day #bangladesh liberation war #bengali #south asia #asia #history #historical photos #south asian history #ph #ots #abbas attar #iranian artist

[newhistorybooks]

“Meticulous archival research combines with a strikingly imaginative evocation of the world inhabited by Mughal women in Ruby Lal’s writing. Whether set against the dust and grit of imperial caravans, salt-lashed sea voyages, or the manicured precision of Mughal gardens, her vagabond princess, Gulbadan, surprises us at every turn. A superb achievement.”

#uwlibraries #history books #south asian history #women's history #biography

[virgocurator]

Details of The Wonders of Creation

Iranian scholar Zakariya al-Qazwini ‎(1203–1283).

After traveling throughout Mesopotamia and Syria, he wrote his famous Arabic-language cosmography, 'Aja'eb ol-makhluqat wa qara'eb ol-mowjudat (The wonders of creation, or literally, Marvels of things created and miraculous aspects of things existing).

#art history #art #history #medieval #13th century #middle ages #medieval art #manuscript #persian #persian art #Iran #iranian #iranian art #iranian history #south asian history #southwest Asia #asian art #cosmology

[woman-for-women]

Sati and Misogyny

I wrote a 15-page paper on the practice of sati, or widow burning, where a widow burns herself alive on her husband's funeral pyre. I wanted to design something to share some of the facts I learned about the class/caste/religious/gendered motivations for why women committed sati (and yes, it was a deeply misogynistic practice).

I had a lot of fun making this and I want to make more desi-focused feminist infographics in the future as well!

#gender abolition #w4w post #w4w infographic #stats #feminism #feminist #desi #desi history #desi feminism #sati #desi feminist #south asian #south asian history #indian history #womens history #herstory

[little-desi-historian]

Happy Indian Independence Day!

On this day, August 15th 1947, India became free from Great Britain after 200+ years of oppression and violence. 🇮🇳

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” — Mahatma Gandhi

Indian Independence Day - playlist.

#history #indian independence day #meerathehistorian #brown history #India #desi tag #desiblr #desi tumblr #desi queer #desi lgbt #being desi #desi things #south asian #south Asia #south asian history #independence day #anti monarchy #anti Hindu nationalism #on this date #on this day #on this day in history #august 15 #1940s #august 15 1947 #colonialism

[belle-keys]

“I have conversed both [in India] and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues... I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. Honours might be roughly even in works of the imagination, such as poetry, but when we pass from works of imagination to works in which facts are recorded, and general principles investigated, the superiority of the Europeans becomes absolutely immeasurable."

– Thomas Babington Macaulay in his 1835 “Minute Upon Indian Education”.

This quote by Thomas Macaulay lives in my head rent-free. I think it perfectly summarizes the nasty Eurocentric impact of the British Empire on past and current perceptions of language and culture. The conclusion that what is native to the lands they colonized is fundamentally inferior is a view that is still rampant, overtly or subtly, everywhere.

#poc dark academia #dark academia #south asian history #british empire #colonization #colonialism #south asia #english literature #orientalism #babel an arcane history #babel #languages #literature

[classical-romance]

Yasmeen Ghauri - Greatest fashion icon of the 1990’s

#yasmeen ghauri #fashion #divine feminine #love #girl #catwalk #1990s aesthetic #1990s style #south asian history #unique

[manicomplex]

amrita pratim, a prominent punjabi poet that wrote about the impact of partition on women and refugees in the 1950s and the horrors of the following nationalizing project in india. I weep with her work in remembering the joys and woes of my elders.

#amrita pritam #partition #punjabi #south asian history #1950s #poetry

[mizutaama]

if twitter falls apart I just want my desi mutuals to take one final look at this amazing thread that talks about the history and spread of the South Asian gene

#desi #desiblr #history #south asian history

[souppilgrim]

oh faiz

#faiz ahmed faiz #poetry #literature #pakistan #partition #south asian art #south asian history #south asia #south asian literature

[1920sitgirl]

The video above is taken from the bbc program “back in time for Birmingham” a tv show that follows the Sharma family as they go back through time (in this episode it’s the 1970s) and shows what life would’ve been like for the Sharma family in that time period.

The video tells the story of one of the first industrial actions lead by South Asian women, this came after the pay disparity between white female workers and Asian female workers at imperial typewriter co came to light. After the initial 39 workers that walked out the strike grew to approximately 500 people and lasted 3 months, despite being offered no support by their local union eventually the strikers won and many were reemployed, however within a few years imperial type writer co would move production abroad claiming that their factories were now too expensive to run.

I highly recommend watching the video to hear the story properly, the video is also subtitled to reading along is an option too :)

#talking history #history #womens history #South Asian history

[curtwilde]

#i actually hope they leave charu majumdar alone ngl #i KNOW we've had a binay badal dinesh movie but it was shit so it doesn't count #desi tag #desi tumblr #desiblr #indian history #south asian history #south asia

[newhistorybooks]

"A major work of original scholarship that provides an eye-opening perspective on the history of South Asia over the past five hundred years, putting ecology and environmental change at the heart of the story."

#uwlibraries #history books #environmental history #south asian history #imperial history #history of india

[valkyries-things]

RANI LAKSHMIBAI OF JHANSI // QUEEN

“She was a Queen of Jhansi (now located in the Jhansi district in Uttar Pradesh). She is a legendary figure associated with early resistance against the British Raj, playing an important role during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Following the death of her husband, the British governor-general of India refused to recognise their adopted son as his heir, and annexed Jhansi under policy of ‘doctrine of lapse’. She gathered her forces and rose in revolt against the British, and joined the Indian rebellion of 1857. Overpowered by the British troops, she escaped and joined hands with other places in India. She continued her struggle but died fighting in Kotah ki Serai, near Gwalior.”

#female history #south asian history

[foxglovedforest]

Fuck it, this is a South Asian history blog now

#ri rambles #south asian history #history #desi tag

[sundersea]

all the indian & kashmiri history + autobiographical books I've read from late 2022-2023 so far! currently working through the persistence of caste & the deoliwallahs

#books #south asian history