Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Looking forward to this next week Weds @camhistory.bsky.social at the Centre for South Asian Studies. Friends in Cambridge, will be great to meet! 011
Reposted by Radha KapuriaDurham University Collections @ducollections.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Yesterday at the Oriental Museum we spent the day deep cleaning our beautiful Chinese bed. Rebecca, a conservation student, Ishita a placement student and FOH staff, James & Tracy, worked with Kel and Carolyn to clean the bed, dusting and hoovering. Here they are hard at work. 061
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Last month we hosted the amazing Siobhan Lambert-Hurley @sheffielduni.bsky.social for the @durhamhistory.bsky.social Seminar. She spoke on royal women's relationship to food & shaping of a discourse on ideal diets in princely India, with great insights on doing Gender & Food Histories in South Asia. 131
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Thank you to Sakshi Wadhva at The Daak Books for this detailed and considered review of Music in Colonial Punjab! Always inspired to read the future directions the research in this book can take! thedaak.in/2025/03/29/m...thedaak.inMusic in Colonial PunjabMusic in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800–1947 by Radha Kapuria, Oxford University Press, 2023, 348 pages, Online ISBN: 9780191959394, £83.33 by Sakshi Wadhwa The importan… 020
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Such a joy to see our book Punjab Sounds featured in the Leverhulme funding bulletin. 020
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Massive gratitude to Prof Ira Bhaskar for the Foreword and Prof Virinder Singh Kalra for the Afterword. 000
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Salma Siddique, Aditi Deo, Omar Kasmani, Bindu EM, Yogesh Snehi, Gwen Kirk, Navkiran Natt, Naresh Kumar, Zafar Iqbal, David Kerr, Kavita Bhanot, Taimoor Shahid, Thomas Hodgson, Ravikant, Prashastika Sharma, & Ronit Ghosh. You can order a copy here: www.routledge.com/Punjab-Sound...routledge.comPunjab Sounds: In and Beyond the RegionPunjab Sounds nuances our understanding of the region's imbrications with sound. It argues that rather than being territorially bounded, the region only emerges in ‘regioning’, i.e., in words, gestur... 120
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 04/03/2025We wish to acknowledge a range of speakers and discussants at the fascinating and really engaging conversations at the 2021 colloquium: including, among others, Prof. Anjali Roy , Prof. Laura Leante, Prof. Anshu Malhotra, Prof. @katherineschof8.bsky.social Prof Rajinder Dudrah, Michael Nijhawan 5/🧵routledge.comPunjab Sounds: In and Beyond the RegionPunjab Sounds nuances our understanding of the region's imbrications with sound. It argues that rather than being territorially bounded, the region only emerges in ‘regioning’, i.e., in words, gestur... 111
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 04/03/2025+Kirit James Singh on the role of mediation in shabad kirtan; this is truly an exceptional lineup. With thanks to Astha Mehrotra for her support, the Leverhulme Trust for making this possible in the first place, & Siobhan Lambert-Hurley at Sheffield for being the best mentor ever! 4/🧵 100
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Ali Shair on Punjabi sounds in Pakistani classical music; Sakoon Singh on the sounds of the ghara & the charkha; Shikha Jhingan on Punjabi soundscapes in Bollywood;Tom Graves on “Love From 🇮🇳/ 🇵🇰” comments on YouTube; Júlia Szivák on nostalgia +authenticity in British Asian Punjabi music, 3/🧵 111
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 04/03/2025It features an array of essays from authors who truly represent Punjab across borders. Gibb Schreffler on Dhol Chaal; Ranbir Johal & Kiran Sunar on giddha performance and “trinjan audiotopias”; Sumera Saleem on women’s sithniyan; Radhika Kumar on Chamar pop; 2/🧵 101
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 04/03/2025This labour of love, begun just before the pandemic, & brought to life in 2021, at a fantastic online colloquium, is finally published! It opens with an Introduction on “regioning sound” co-authored with my co-editor, Dr Vebhuti Duggal: one of the sharpest thinkers today on sound in South Asia. 1/🧵 251
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 03/03/2025So thrilled that this volume is finally out, something to entice those interested in the intersections of the environment history and ecology with music and the performing arts 🌴 🌊 🎶 🎸 🎭 @durhamhistory.bsky.social 030
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Beyond honoured to have my book shortlisted, and for it to now receive "Special Mention" alongside the brilliant A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar by Ashok Gopal, winner of the 2024 Karwaan Book Award. @karwaanheritage.bsky.social 🙏 ! Announcement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S51... 121
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Thank you so much @katherineschof8.bsky.social ! So happy this is finally published :) @priyankabasu.bsky.social 131
Radha Kapuria @radhakapuria.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Quite incredibly, *Music in Colonial Punjab* has made the Shortlist for the Karwaan Book Award 2024! Excited /honoured/a bit numb to be in such exalted company. Karwaan, 🙏 for your brilliant work platforming historical research to a wider public. youtu.be/gxD0QcUmrrk?... @durhamhistory.bsky.socialyoutu.beSHORTLIST Announcement | Karwaan Book Awards 2024YouTube video by Karwaan : The Heritage Exploration Initiative 141
Reposted by Radha KapuriaDurham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Not one but *two* new co-edited volumes on different aspects of musical culture in South Asia have just been published by our brilliant colleague Radha Kapuria (@radhakapuria.bsky.social) – congratulations Radha! 142
Reposted by Radha KapuriaDurham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Wonderful news that Radha Kapuria's book *Music in Colonial Punjab* has been longilisted for the Karwaan Book Award (@karwaanheritage.bsky.social), recognising outstanding non-fiction works on the history of the Indian subcontinent 🎉 @radhakapuria.bsky.social 🎉 063
Reposted by Radha KapuriaDurham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Would you like to work with the amazing @christinajriggs.bsky.social and The Story, Durham to investigate "Images and Empire in British Military Collections: The Photographic Archive of the Durham Light Infantry (DLI)"? Click this link to find out more. ▶️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ463/p...jobs.ac.ukPhD Studentship - Images and Empire in British Military Collections: The Photographic Archive of the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) at Durham UniversityExplore a PhD Studentship - Images and Empire in British Military Collections: The Photographic Archive of the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply toda... 131
