Caste in Everyday Life: Experience and Affect: An Interview with Dhaneswar Bhoi
Dhaneswar Bhoi is an Honorary Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and a Lecturer and Module Leader at…
Dhaneswar Bhoi is an Honorary Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and a Lecturer and Module Leader at…
The documentary film Rat Trap directed by Rupesh Kumar Sahu in 2022 explores the lives of rat-hole coal miners (Santhals…
No Horse for Dalit Grooms A new pattern of violence has emerged where Dalit men have been attacked for riding…
Recent socio-anthropological studies have made the concept of reflexivity (Wilson & Karliova, 2021) apparent by drawing attention to researchers’ inter-subjective…
Post-liberalisation, the Hindi film industry in Mumbai has increasingly embraced stories that portray the lives of the elite to cater…
The notion of caste is often seen as a remnant of the past, which India’s modernisation and development would push…
Divya Vaid is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has an MSc and…
Introduction I was introduced to the term chapri a few years ago through a friend’s dream. Drunk and excited, he…
What has long been the norm in Indian academic setups, and also among the Indian diasporic academic communities abroad, is…
Bottu, a Telugu term referring to a decorative dot put on Hindu women’s foreheads, between the eyebrows, or in the…