Review Essay: Caste and Cookbooks (Part III)
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
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Review Essay: Caste and Cookbooks (Part II)
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
Vasectomy, Futures, and Finitude
Since 2019, a growing group of “anti-natalist” activists have been used as a foil to demonstrate rising anxieties regarding future prospects of life on earth. Writing for the…
Prof Saibaba
Prof. Saibaba recounts horrific conditions in prison August 26, 2024 Prof Saibaba recalled his nine years of solitary prison life in the ‘anda cell’ of Nagpur jail in a…
Review Essay: Caste and Cookbooks
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
Migrants and Machine Politics – review
In Migrants and Machine Politics, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil examine how India’s urban poor navigate and shape political networks to secure representation and accountability within …
Section 144: Fieldwork in a Curfew
Reflecting on the complexities of conducting research in a region gripped by administrative upheaval and political uncertainty, I write to open up this forum to fellow anthropologists and…
Anagha Anil: Portrait Populism: On the Communist Iconography of Kerala
Communism continues to thrive both as a ubiquitous presence and a powerful electoral force in the south Indian state of Kerala. Established in 1940, the Communist Party of…
Moyukh Chatterjee on her book, Composing Violence
https://www.dukeupress.edu/composing-violence Drew Kerr: On one reading, you’ve offered a fresh take on the exclusionary Hindu nationalist project of perpetual crisis re/creating an intern…
“Zomi Town”
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The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India – review
In The Incarcerations, Alpa Shah unpacks the plight of the Bhima Koregaon-16, a group of human rights defenders who were imprisoned without trial for an alleged plot against…
Premediations of Carcerality: Notes on Targeted Surveillance in Postcolonial India
This post explores the surveillance of letters across two time-periods in postcolonial India: mail letter interception immediately following India’s independence in 1947, and the contemporary use of l…
Waves of Well-being: Surfing at the Shaka Surf Club in Kodi Bengre, India
Surfing’s roots are in long-standing cultures in the Pacific Islands, South America, and West Africa. After wave-riding was banned by European Missionaries who deemed it leisurely and “sav…
Sumanta Banerjee
Seagull Books congratulates Sumanta Banerjee on being honoured with the Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar Gold Plaque by the Asiatic Society. A distinguished cultural historian and journalist, Suman…
Reframing the problem of India’s street dogs
India’s millions of stray dogs coexist largely peacefully with humans, however, an increase in dog attacks and the prevalence of rabies cases has sparked calls to introduce stronger…
The Taste of Dwindling Flows, Chowdy fish in the Little Rann of Kutch in India
By Sita Mamidipudi, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Too Salty Najma and her family are Muslim fishworkers who live half a mile away from…
Henrietta Clive
A friend is in India and I am vicariously planning tours that would take more time than anyone has… I recently – well 3 years ago – read…
The Indian Struggle
“The ethnic diversity of India has never been a problem – for tgroughout her history sge has been able to absorb different races and impose on them one…
The Discovery of India
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Tigers, Animality, and Dignity: A Journey Through the Central Indian Landscape
Amit Kaushik, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia In 2008, a somber event unfolded in the heart of India as the local tiger population faced extinction in the…
Siraj // Begam Lutf-un-nisã
there are many gems to be found in the life and death of Siraj. The Gardens by his tomb are most peaceful, and here I read and honoured…
Smytta Yadav: Shifting Landscapes: Urbanization, Religious Transformations, and Cultural Resilience in Delhi
In the midst of India’s extensive urbanization, with more than 34% of the population dwelling in urban areas as of 2021, as per the World Bank, the complex…
E. Gabriel Dattatreyan on his book, The Globally Familiar
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-globally-familiar Eléonore Rimbault: Much of the energy of The Globally Familiar derives from your candid and involved focus on the young b-boys and rappers …
Robinson Crusoe: After the Island
To cite this article: John Hutnyk (2023): Robinson Crusoe: After the island, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2244204 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449…