‘Research is probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world’ (p.1). Linda Tuhiwai Smith, a leading decolonization theorist,…

The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century edited by Ravinder Kaur and Nayanika Mathur (published by…

Nikhil Menon is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is a historian of modern…

Shekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury’s Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961 (published by…

Reeju Ray’s Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom and Knowledge (published by the Oxford University Press in…

The secret behind oil as a commodity is labour, Andrea Wright reminds us. Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and…

Sebanti Chatterjee’s captivating book Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (published by Bloomsbury in 2023) takes readers on…

Sebanti Chatterjee is a cultural anthropologist who is interested in Sound Studies, Gender Studies, and Religious Studies. Occasionally she dabbles…

In Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis (published by Duke University Press in 2021), Kaushik Sunder Rajan beckons our attention to…

The book, Migrants and Machine Politics: Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness by Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil(Princeton: Princeton University Press…