Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> Reminds me of the part of Manu Pillai's Travancore book where he goes "oh yeah btw the queen never entered a temple after Vaikom but that doesn't mean she's casteist or salty or anything" and then towards the end reveals that his sources include the descendants of the queen lmao</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> How does the amount of detail and updatedness of the info compare to Nilakanta Sastri? Tbf I might still read Kanisetti even if its the same info just because my boi Sastri is drier than Rudin.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://thepit.social/@Will" class="u-url mention">@<span>Will</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://thepit.social/@peter" class="u-url mention">@<span>peter</span></a></span> I love Fediverse, but this observation strikes me as relevant. If anything, one cultural problem on Mastodon is that if you weigh in on a random conversation you're risking being called a "reply guy" and subjected to verbal abuse.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://thepit.social/@peter" class="u-url mention">@<span>peter</span></a></span> i have enjoyed some of the rolling discussions on Bluesky started by quasi-influencer types (Michael Sweeney, Jamelle Bouie) where a bunch of random people, some with relevant experience, chime in. Mastodon doesn’t ever seem to get enough mass for something like this, and I do find these enriching and useful. Not sure what the difference is, but what I miss from old Twitter seems to be coming back on that platform.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@gwozniak" class="u-url mention">@<span>gwozniak</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@standefer" class="u-url mention">@<span>standefer</span></a></span> <br />This didn't even get much attention in MY education, and I was educated in the heart of the region the book is about!</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@DrFart" class="u-url mention">@<span>DrFart</span></a></span> "Formalizing the Ineffable".</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@standefer" class="u-url mention">@<span>standefer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> Seconded! I love getting recommendations for books about parts of the world that didn't get much attention in the media in my part of the world or in my education.</p>
<p>21/ Ultimately, I'm glad this book exists, and I'm glad I read it. I view it as an important salvo that should inspire many more people to write accessible, popular histories of South India. •</p>
<p>20/ One is also filled with dread that textbook writers will be forced by regional and linguistic partisans to include even more irrelevant names and dates and lineages: what Martin Gardner called the "floatsam and jetsam of history". ↵</p>