Children’s Voices and Agency: Towards a Reflexive Reformulation – Vijitha Rajan
In the fields of childhood studies and the sociology of childhood, the concepts of children’s voice and agency have increasingly…
The Sociology of War: Discursive Practices and the Shaping of the Modern Citizen – Anurag Kumar Bauddh
Introduction In the age of precision bombing and high-tech surveillance, the contemporary state still depends on older yet symbolically powerful…
A Quarter Century of Mistaken Modernity: Was I Ever in a Modern World? – Kamal Choudhary
I was born in 1996—the same time when India had just started reaping the fruits of liberalization, when people spoke…
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…
Theorizing a Bengali Nation: Abul Hashim and the United Bengal Movement, 1937 – 1947 by Sucharita Sen (2024): A Review by Krishnayan Das
The decade leading up to partition and independence in 1947 was a tumultuous era. It witnessed the unseating of a…
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,…
Anger, Frustration and Hopelessness in Us and Franz Kafka’s K: Analyzing A Modern Predicament Through His Writings – Sohom Roy
From Walter Benjamin, with Illumination In the chapter titled ‘Some Reflections on Kafka’ within Walter Benjamin’s book Illuminations, the author…
Sexuality Reimagined: MSM in Modern India by Shailja Tandon (2023): A Review by Nupur Pattanaik
In Sexuality Reimagined: MSM in Modern India (published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023), Shalija Tandon examines the question of how…
The Oxford Handbook of Caste edited by Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet (2023): A Review by Ankush Pal
The notion of caste is often seen as a remnant of the past, which India’s modernisation and development would push…
The Modern Neophyte – Shreya Mukherjee
Just a few months ago, there was a discussion in my MA classroom during one of our lectures in a…