The decade leading up to partition and independence in 1947 was a tumultuous era. It witnessed the unseating of a…
Sanjib Baruah’s In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast (published by Stanford University Press in 2020) compliments…
Introduction The nationalist struggle for India’s independence was not just a mere political one. Rather it was an iconoclastic project,…
Mainstream geopolitics and sociology are strange bedfellows. Global foreign policy or supranational agenda in most of the post-war era was…
Introduction “What is the idea of India”? I posed this question to some of my colleagues and friends at IIT…
The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century edited by Ravinder Kaur and Nayanika Mathur (published by…
Uday Berry’s nearly eleven-minute animated short film Bharat Minar. The Tower of a Forgotten India (2019) won the Best Fiction…
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. Teaching the Social through Popular What does it…
The Doing Sociology team spoke to Prof. Tanweer Fazal who teaches Sociology in the University of Hyderabad. We spoke to…