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Antara Datta Profile picture
Antara Datta
@buchu
Historian of South Asia. Mother. Cat person.
May 3, 2021 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
I have now seen multiple takes on this idea that there has been a ‘sudden’ shift towards communalism in Bengal. And Mamata Banerjee has stemmed the tide. The historian in me is really wincing at this. A thread.👇🏽 Let me start with a fairly accessible and excellent piece on the long history of Hindu majoritarianism in Bengal and then break it down a bit more. @ishan_muk

caravanmagazine.in/amp/politics/h…
Apr 22, 2021 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
What is happening with COVID in India? People have been asking me to explain and to be honest, I’m not there and I don’t want to take away the voices of those who are, & those who are doing an incredible job of reporting. So the historian in me is putting a timeline together 1/n In the first wave in 2020, the government locked down almost overnight. This caused enormous chaos, confusion and misery. thelancet.com/journals/lance…
If you want to read about the impact on migrant workers in the first lockdown
indianexpress.com/article/india/…
or this bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-…