Situating Women Performers in Feminist Historiography: A Conversation with Lata Singh
The Women and Society Research Collection curated by Doing Sociology First Online Lecture on Situating Women Performers in Feminist Historiography…
Subaltern Studies: A Short Introduction by Gargi Talapatra and edited by Krishna Sen (2024): A Review by Abhilash Chetia Wanniang
Part of Orient BlackSwan’s Literary/Cultural Theory series, Gargi Talapatra’s Subaltern Studies: A Short Introduction provides a sweeping account of an…
Punjabi Centuries: Tracing Histories of Punjab edited by Anshu Malhotra (2024): A Review by Navpreet Kaur
Punjabi Centuries: Tracing Histories of Punjab edited by Anshu Malhotra (published by Orient Blackswan in 2024) traces the complex nature…
AfroAsian Musical Imaginaries of Circulations and Interconnections edited by Sumangala Damodaran (2024): A Review by Parvathi Krishnan
Afro-Asian Musical Imaginaries: Of Circulations and Interconnections edited by Sumangala Damodaran (published by Tulika Books in 2024) is a scholarly…
The Birth of a New Knowledge System – Ritwik Rathod
Methodological questions about knowledge construction saw shifts in a colonially mediated modern India. Questions about an Indian way of thinking…
Gender in Modern India: History, Culture, Marginality edited by Lata Singh and Shashank Sekhar Sinha (2024): A Review by Atreyee Sengupta
Spanning across colonial and postcolonial timelines, various academic disciplines, and several regions in India, Gender in Modern India: History, Culture,…
When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799 by Purnima Dhavan (2011): A Review by Navpreet Kaur
Purnima Dhavan’s book When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799 (published by Oxford University Press)…
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia by Divya Cherian (2023): A Review by Alfisha Sabri
One would imagine that the current state of politics in India, that is, the rapid movement towards right-wing nationalism and…
The Role of the Individual in History – Harshith Subramaniam
Throughout the annals of human existence, the question of the individual’s role in shaping history has been a subject of…
Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey Through Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh (2023): A Review by Vinky Mittal
Amitav Ghosh’s Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey Through Opium’s Hidden Histories, published by Fourth Estate India in 2023, has…