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…
Bridging Divides: The Role of Digital Technology in Indian Education – Upali Bhattacharya
The ongoing integration of digital technology into educational environments has significantly transformed how knowledge is delivered and acquired. With the…
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…
In Praise of Criticality: An Opinion on the Production of Academic Research in India – Niloy Pratim Kashyap
Social science research in India, or at least much of it, has been characterized by a banal reiteration of an…
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…
Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany: Why Move? By Amrita Datta (2023): A Review by Aruna Bhattacharya
Amrita Datta’s Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany: Why Move? (published by Palgrave Macmillan) in 2023 goes beyond…
Brown Saviors And Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, And The Global Politics Of Help In India By Arjun Shankar (2023): A Review By Shradha Nediyedath
Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India by Arjun Shankar (published…
Why Would I be Married Here? Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India by Reena Kukreja (2022): A Review by Khushbu Sharma
Marriage as an institution has not received adequate attention from the ‘mainstream’ and ‘traditional’ political science. Owing to its relegation…
The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century – A Book Discussion with Surinder Singh Jodhka
Surinder Singh Jodhka is a Professor of Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru…
The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century by Surinder Singh Jodhka (2023): A Review by Anjali Chauhan
I started reading this book with my own (mis)understanding of the “rural” and with the whole bag of myths and…