~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “The last hereditary Welsh prince, Owain Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, built Powis castle as a craggy fort in the 13th century; the estate was his reward for abandoning…
Your article, Contested Glories of Selective Renovation in West Bengal, has been published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, and is now available…
Review of Madhava Prasad’s 2014 book seems now more than ever… “Cine-Politics asserts that after a distinct period in which writers were dominant in the movies, the celebrity…
July is South Asian Heritage Month in the UK and worldwide, celebrating the history and culture of the region and its influence in Britain. To mark the occasion,…
“An outpouring of books on the Sundarbans delta and other Bengal waterways immerse us in a new ecological analytic. An amazing liquid world churns at the end of…
It is a winter day. Workers at the dump are busy emptying trucks, sweating profusely as the sun beats down on all of us. The smell of the…
“Corpographies of Public History: The Sequester of Statues in Flagstaff Gardens, Barrackpore, West Bengal” Asian Review of World Histories ISSN: 2287-9811 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/…
Joginder Kaur (54) had no formal schooling. For her, phone calls always meant pressing the green button to receive a call. Dialling numbers or navigating menus were not…
The Portuguese colonial incursion in Orissa began around 1514, and Malaka port was a key trading link. Centuries later, they had the temerity to put the Jagannath shrine…
Surrogacy is a form of assisted reproduction in which the gestational labor of birthing a child is carried out by someone other than the intending parent/s. Surrogacy in…
This article is the fourth and final article in a series about gig and platform worker unions in India written by members of the Labor Tech Research Network.…
David Beriss As I noted in my previous post, we had a tie for the winner of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. The tie is between…
Since 2020, the category of “essential work,” and the exploitative conditions it legitimized during the COVID-19 pandemic, has sparked waves of labor protest across the globe. Feminist scholars…
Nomadic Indigenous Peoples and the Law by Indrani Sigamany analyses how nomadic communities in India navigate land dispossession, gendered injustices and administrative barriers. This excellent book o…
This article is the first in a series about stuckness in science and technology. Read the introduction to the series here. What might we learn from the experiences…
Last December, we walked through the red-brick corridors of the Alipore Jail Museum and entered an exhibition titled The Babu and the Bazaar: Art from 19th and Early…
Introduction In the summer of 2020 in a rural village in Telangana, India, a small but angry crowd donning cloth masks gathered outside the community isolation centre set…
By the time panic buttons were installed in buses, taxis, and autorickshaws starting in 2012, their deployment in Delhi’s public transit vehicles had already been under discussion for…
When I began doctoral fieldwork in 2022 in Unity Colony[1]—a low-income informal settlement (or Jhuggi Jhopdi Cluster) in south Delhi—just over a year after the pandemic’s second wave…
This article is the third in a series about gig and platform worker unions in India written by members of the Labor Tech Research Network. Read the introduction…
Timepass: having sat four days under the Bodhi tree in Bodhgaya and watched in procession: – an ant struggling to go the wrong way as hundreds of devotees…
Tulasi Srinivas‘s The Goddess in the Mirror is an ethnography of Bangalore’s beauty salons, teasing out how beauty intertwines with gender, labour, caste and myth in urban India.…
This article is the second in a series about gig and platform worker unions in India written by members of the Labor Tech Research Network. Read the introduction…
This article, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, is about heritage restoration according to old colonial protocols and myopias. Contesting entrepreneur-developers facing funder imperative…