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INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti, Deljana Iossifova, Alexandros Gasparatos   +2 more
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The Migrant Priests of the Tamil Diaspora Hindu Temples: Caste, Profiles, Circulations and Agency of Transnational Religious Actors

South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2020
Many aspects of the contemporary transnationalization of Hinduism have already been well studied, such as long-distance nationalism or the sense of belonging to a transnational community, but very little attention has been paid to the ritual actors who ...
Pierre-Yves Trouillet
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Theorising Indo‐Caribbean Identities Beyond the Homeland/Hostland Binary: Indo‐Guadeloupeans’ ‘Archipelagic Brown Consciousness’

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indo‐Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how Indo‐Guadeloupeans—from Guadeloupe, a current French overseas territory—articulate post‐indenture identities by developing two interrelated ...
Manuela Latchoumaya
wiley   +1 more source

Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a Politics of Planetary Care: The Limits of More‐Than‐Human Approaches, Silenced Notes From Indigenous Forest Worlds in India

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to the planetary climate crisis, influential scholarship has directed us to decenter the human, recognize nonhuman agency, and imagine more‐than‐human futures. But what might this leave out? Drawing on Indigenous forest worlds in India and the incarcerated intellectual‐activists who struggled alongside them, this article develops a
Alpa Shah
wiley   +1 more source

MoC: Hindu Nationalism /on the wall

, 2019
The canonical version of this content is accessible on jtmartelli.com. Pamphlets showcasing the engagement of students with Hindu nationalism. This specific selection grapples with the debates surrounding the Ayodhya dispute following the destruction of ...
J-T.M.
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‘But He Is Only a Human, So Why Do They Hate Them? Because of His Job?’: Children's Critical Co‐Inquiries on Caste, Privilege and Positionality

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Caste hierarchies in India place children within a complex system of oppressor‐oppressed relationships that structurally reinforce practices of othering. This paper draws on research with children from privileged caste communities, raising critical consciousness of caste oppression in a primary school classroom in New Delhi, India.
Arushi Mathur
wiley   +1 more source

Hindu Nationalism as Authoritarian Law

This paper examines Hindu Nationalism as a form of Authoritarian Law. The paper examines Hindu Nationalism's complex relationship to the law. It argues that Hindu Nationalism's approach to law is riddled with internal tensions.
Michael Walton, Pratap Bhanu Mehta
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Which Decolonization? Theorizing Decolonization beyond Decoloniality and its Critics

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on decolonial thought has reached an unhelpful stalemate. A core problem in assessing decolonial thought is that the term ‘decolonization’ has been stretched so widely that it now allows for many competing uses. For some critics of decolonial thought such as Nigerian philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, this overuse points to conceptual ...
David Myer Temin
wiley   +1 more source

Shaping the 'community' : Hindu nationalist imagination in Gujarat, 1880-1950 [PDF]

The concern of this research is the nature of the Hindu nationalist ideology in the western Indian state of Gujarat from 1880 to 1950 since this period is crucial in forging a relationship between Hindu and Muslim communities based on mutual suspicion.
Martinez Saavedra, Beatriz
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