In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast by Sanjib Baruah (2020): A Review by Unmilan Kalita
Sanjib Baruah’s In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast (published by Stanford University Press in 2020) compliments…
Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures Across the Indian Ocean by Sayan Dey (2023): A Review by Devanjan Khuntia
Sayan Dey compels the reader to extend its ‘obvious’ academic understanding of sociological terms such as diaspora, migration, culture and…
Sexuality Reimagined: MSM in Modern India by Shailja Tandon (2023): A Review by Nupur Pattanaik
In Sexuality Reimagined: MSM in Modern India (published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023), Shalija Tandon examines the question of how…
The Oxford Handbook of Caste edited by Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet (2023): A Review by Ankush Pal
The notion of caste is often seen as a remnant of the past, which India’s modernisation and development would push…
Social Mobility, Identities and Ethnography: An Interview with Divya Vaid
Divya Vaid is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has an MSc and…
The Final Farewell: Understanding the Last Rites and Rituals of India’s Major Faiths by Minakshi Dewan (2023): A Review by Chittajit Mitra
Death is possibly the only confirmed event that comes with life, but even then in many cases, it is introduced…
Beacon of Hope: A Gendered Homage to the Iron-willed Woman of Assam: Birubala Rabha – Meghna Dutta
It’s been almost a decade since my maternal aunt forwarded an article on Witch hunting and its menace which is…
Turkish-Islamic Synthesis: With the Eyes of Friend and Foe by Ahmet Yılmaz Boyunağa (1970): A Review by Uğur Berk Kalelioğlu
A book that was lost on the dusty shelves of Ankara’s old bibliopoles reached into my hands by chance while…
Chapri Fashion: A Disruption of Cultural Domination in the Field of Men’s Fashion in India – Sohom Roy
Introduction I was introduced to the term chapri a few years ago through a friend’s dream. Drunk and excited, he…
The Story of My ‘Imperfect’ English – Vadivel Chinnadurai
What has long been the norm in Indian academic setups, and also among the Indian diasporic academic communities abroad, is…