The past is never dead. It's not even past
Professor Guha’s interest in disease history originated in his study of demography. He has published on disease mortality in Victorian England in “The Importance of Social Intervention in England’s Mortality Decline,” Social History of Medicine 7,1 (1994), 89-113. His earlier work on South Asia is compiled in Health and Population in South Asia (2001/2009). This […]
It’s been another busy year for Not Even Past with more than 130 articles published across the academic year. To celebrate all this incredible academic content we have compiled everything in one page below. Not Even Past‘s reach also continues to grow, and we just broke a million page views over the past 12 months, […]
It’s been another busy year for Not Even Past with more than 130 articles published across the academic year. To celebrate all this incredible academic content we have compiled everything in one page below. Not Even Past‘s reach also continues to grow, and we just broke a million page views over the past 12 months, […]
As its title suggests, The Dawn of Everything is an ambitious book. The authors, David Graeber and David Wengrow, (one whom passed away while the book was in press) survey the whole past life of biologically modern humans in an effort to broaden the ambit of modern social thought. They aim to thereby open up […]
Institute for Historical Studies – Thursday, January 20, 2022 Notes from the Director How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history? A Time To Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture (Oxford University Press, Dec. 2021) argues that historical records took on potent value […]
Institute for Historical Studies – Wednesday, October 20, 2021 A Roundtable Inspired by Sumit Guha’sTribe and State in Asia Through Twenty-Five Centuries(Columbia University Press, 2021) Notes from the Director Every literate person today will encounter the word “tribe” in many settings. What does this word mean? When and how did its use begin? Is it […]
The History Faculty New Book Series presents: History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000(University of Washington Press, 2019) A book talk and discussion withSUMIT GUHAProfessor of HistoryThe University of Texas at Austinhttps://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/profile.php?eid=sg7967 With discussant:ANUPAMA RAOTOW Associate Professor of History,Barnard College and Columbia Universityhttps://history.barnard.edu/profiles/anupama-rao In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, […]
By Sumit Guha Nothing seems easier than remembering. Each of us remembers a great deal – from the recent past and the remote past. And even if we cannot remember something it surely is recorded somewhere in a collective memory – perhaps in the vast ragbag of information, disinformation, and speculation to be found on […]
Slavery and the slave trade transformed the world. According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million African women, men and children were shipped across the Atlantic to North and South America as slaves. As many as 2 million died in transit. In recent years, historians have started to investigate slavery in other contexts. While the […]
Slavery is an old and tenacious institution in human society. It is not unknown at present. Nor was it confined in the past to the plantations in the Americas that fed world trade after Europe’s overseas expansion in the 1500s. The practice was widespread in India and accepted and regulated by every regime extant in the region.