India in Transition – Arjun Yadav
As India has entered its 77th year of independence, it becomes imperative to scrutinize the contemporary political landscape, the prevailing…
Nationalism in the Vernacular: States, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India: A Book Discussion with Roluahpuia
Roluahpuia is currently serving as an Assistant Professor (Sociology) at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of…
The ‘Dalit Idea Of India’ or The ‘Idea Of A Dalit India?’ – Nation, People And Power Politics – Manas Patra
Introduction “What is the idea of India”? I posed this question to some of my colleagues and friends at IIT…
The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India by Rahul Ranjan (2023): A Review by Chetna Kuanr
Rahul Ranjan’s book The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India (Cambridge University Press, 2023) examines the representation…
The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century edited by Ravinder Kaur and Nayanika Mathur (2022): A Review by Dhriti Sonowal
The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century edited by Ravinder Kaur and Nayanika Mathur (published by…
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness by Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil (2023): A Review by Swasti Vardhan Mishra
The book, Migrants and Machine Politics: Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness by Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil(Princeton: Princeton University Press…
Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity and Indigeneity edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters (2022): A Review by Abir Lal Mazumder
Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity and Indigeneity edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters (published by Oxford University Press in…
A Book Discussion on Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism
Karthick Ram Manoharan is a faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He was a Marie Curie…
A Book Discussion on The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India
Rahul Ranjan holds the Research Council of Norway funded appointment as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He…
Piety, Place and Politics: Rethinking the Spatial Imaginations of Jama Masjid – Afeef Ahmed
It was a normal weekday evening in Jama Masjid. There were crowds, both Indian and international, walking around the 16th-century…