Papers – Page 6 – ECSAS 2025

Policy Learning in an Emerging Economy: Globalization and Transformation in Bangladesh

Economic policies vis-à-vis institutions guide how to govern and maintain accountability and checks and balances, which in turn produce expected economic outcomes. But how does the policy process progress? And how is policy learning shaped in this process? Hugh Heclo and Peter Hall theorize policy learning and empirically demonstrate how powering and puzzling mechanisms articulate […]

Drawing the Sense of Nationalism on Deyal Likhon: Who is Generation Z in Bangladesh?

In July 2024, the student movement in Bangladesh made an international headline when　it forced the former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to resign from her position on August 5. The movement was primarily triggered by a specific demand from the student body to reform the quota system of the Bangladesh Civil Service. The system had preserved […]

The European discourses on socio-political dynamics in Bangladesh since 2024: German, French and Polish perspectives

This paper’s objective is to explore how these changes and governance challenges in Bangladesh (recognised as a trade partner and a pivotal actor in the maintenance of stability within the Indo-Pacific region) are incorporated into the discourses: (1) of the three European Union countries forming the Weimar Triangle: Germany, France and Poland, and (2) of […]

Current Political Dynamics and Challenges to Judicial Independence in Bangladesh.

The creation of a culture of judicial independence is of central significance for both national domestic legal system as well as for the international courts and tribunals. Judicial independence is one of the fundamental values which lie at the foundations of most judicial systems. Each of the values allows the court to fulfil their main […]

Dalit Magazines: Challenges and Transformations in Delhi

This research examines the historical and contemporary challenges faced by Dalit periodical literature and its print culture in Delhi. The Dalit magazine is acutely sentient of its unique responsibility in reimagining and reorganising ideas, spaces and social structures that have traditionally been hostile to the aspirations of the community. The study explores the intersection of […]

Digital Marginalities: Politics of Time, Space and Little Magazines of South Asia

Little magazines play a pivotal role in movements emanating from marginalized communities globally. In the context of South Asia, these publications hold significant importance in movements addressing structural inequalities related to caste, gender, and class. Specifically, in the case of India, little magazines have been integral to movements combating caste-based disparities, notably within the Dalit […]

The Dalit Presses, Publication, and Patronage: The Mohalla Archives and the Rise of Dalit Studies

It has become evidently clear that the Dalit Mohalla (neighborhood) archives in Dalit activists’ homes, preserved in almirahs and trunks and reprints of previously published texts, have contributed centrally to the rise of Dalit Studies in the last decade. Recent regional studies of Dalit movements (G. Aloysius: 1998, A. Rao: 2009, R. Rawat: 2012, C. […]

Recovering the Ephemeral: Production and Circulation of Bangla Dalit Periodicals

The periodical press in Bangla started its journey in the early decades of the nineteenth century and generated a space for debate and shaping of public opinion on varied topics, but a stable print market emerged only after the 1860s. The journey of the Bangla periodical press, for the majority of the nineteenth century, had […]

Unfurling Voices: The Role of Tamil Dalit Print Media from 1869 to 1970 in Shaping Public Discourse and Modern Identities

In this study, the rich tapestry of Tamil Dalit print media is traced back to 1869 and to distant lands like Burma, South Africa, and Sri Lanka where Tamil speaking Dalit migrants reached from India. However, a focused exploration of the significance of this media, periodicals to be specific, seems to be conspicuously absent in […]

Marathi Dalit Periodicals and the Representation of Caste Question

Introduction to print during British Colonial rule paved the way for various writing cultures to emerge across India. The late 19th and early 20th century Maharashtra saw the emergence of Dalit/lower caste periodicals registering the visibility to the question of caste & untouchabilty in a caste ridden society. ‘Satyashodhaki Periodicals’ such as Din Mitra, Din […]