Few symbols of rootedness and belonging can match the power of home. The ancestral home, in particular, is featured in fiction as anchoring a stable self amid the mutability and change of the wider world. In South Asian fiction, the projection of home into the distant future as the space that will one day be […]
Read More… from ROOTS AND RUPTURES: HOME, FAMILY, AND BELONGING IN SOUTH ASIAN PARTITION FICTION
Khadi (coarse hand-woven cloth) and Charkha (spinning wheel) became potent symbols of protest in the princely states of Rajputana challenging the triple layers of colonial, monarchical and feudal authority in the region. Despite the wealth of academic analysis devoted to the semiotics of Khadi and the Charkha, the sensory experiences evoked by these twin phenomena […]
Referring to the students at Presidency College in Calcutta, historian Tapan Raychaudhuri said that their curiosity was akin to a “world devouring thirst for knowledge” (Bangalnama,113). This paper reads the student magazine of the Presidency College in colonial Calcutta to unpack the engagement of a section of the Bengali youth with their contemporary world. From […]
For ours is a battle, not for wealth or for power. It is a battle for freedom. It is a battle for the reclamation of human personality” (Dr. Ambedkar,).[1] To start with Dr Ambedkar’s quote, I, in this paper, attempting to make a contribution to the anti-caste film theory to study cinema and to develop […]
Dalit refugees, known as “Untouchables” in South Asia’s caste system, experience systematic marginalization and persecution in refugee camps which frequently reproduce the deeply ingrained societal norms that discriminate against Dalits. Ravinder Kaur (2008) talks about the divisional politics against untouchable migrants in Punjab during the resettlement between 1947 and 1965 who were “naturally” placed in […]
Read More… from Camp Life and Graded Divisional Politics: Reading Bengali Dalit Refugee Narratives
In colonial Bengal, parodies and satires became particularly popular genres, which targeted a variety of modern urban characters who haunted the colonial city. It was common for these satiric and comic writings in Bengali to not only mock and overturn characters and situations but also to readapt traditional literary genres to new literary goals and […]
Read More… from Upside-Down Purāṇ”: A Bengali Mock-Purāṇa from 1927
Go Goa Gone (2013) is India’s first zombie action comedy movie, blending horror and humor in a unique cinematic experiment. While the film adopts Western zombie tropes, its characters—Hardik, Luv, and Bunny—attempt to interpret the supernatural threat using their own cultural and religious frameworks. This analysis explores how Indian and Nepali popular figures, such as […]
Much like the majority of South Asian diasporic cultural studies, analyses of literary and historical narratives of indentureship are often limited to the critical lens of race and racialization. In recent years, “caste” as a category of analysis has emerged as a leading approach alongside racial identity. However, these connected approaches fall short in addressing […]
When the Mughals conquered Bengal in the 1570s, north Indian elites tended to look upon the region with a mixture of suspicion and disdain. During the reign of Shāh Jahān, one Mīrzā Ṣafī Sayf Khān was appointed governor of Bengal, and among his retinue was a rising star of the Persian literary scene, Abū al-Barakāt […]
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The paper aims to explore the popular beauty contest Miss TransqueenIndia (originated in 2016) as a cultural phenomenon that reevaluates transperformativity within the realms of fashion and glamour. As an aesthetic and politicalplatform, such beauty pageants challenge existing ethics of beauty, offering a spacefor gender plurality, trans inclusivity, and social sustainability. By tracing thetransformation of […]
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