Feminist Histories and the Women’s Movement in Contemporary India: An Interview with Uma Chakravarti
Uma Chakravarti is an Indian historian and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1980s, Chakravarti has written extensively on Indian history highlighting…
Archives and Archiving in the 21st Century edited by Radhika Seshan (2025): A Review by Akshika Goel
Archives and Archiving in the 21st Century edited by Radhika Seshan (published by Routledge in 2025) is an exploration of…
Problematising The Postcolonial: A Critical Reflection On Theories And Practices – Saddam Hussain
Introduction The advent of postcolonial studies offers a vital critique of colonial history, power dynamics, and the legacies of Western…
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)…