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Book review: Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta, eds. 2022. Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Smriti Sikri
Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta, eds. 2022. Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India. Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan. 356 pp. 1210 (paperback—ISBN: 9789354421884)
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Book review: Renny Thomas. 2022. Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Subhadeepta Ray
Renny Thomas. 2022. Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment. Oxon and New York: Routledge. 214 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. £36.99 (eBook—ISBN: 9781003213475)
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Beyond the Post Normal Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Shiv Visvanathan, Chandrika Parmar
The essay argues for an exploration of alternative worldviews and a search for a different set of categories. It proposes that the classic ‘for a Sociology of India’ debate draw upon Ziauddin Sarda...
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Book review: Sreedeep Bhattacharya. 2020. Consumerist Encounters: Flirting with Things and Images Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Shivani Rajput
Sreedeep Bhattacharya. 2020. Consumerist Encounters: Flirting with Things and Images. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 292 pp. Figures, references, index. ₹1695 (hardback—ISBN 9780190125561)
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Book review: Erik de Maaker. 2021. Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North East India Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Uday Chandra
Erik de Maaker. 2021. Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North East India. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 328 pp. Maps, glossary, figures, notes, ref...
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Book review: Jayaseelan Raj. 2022. Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian Tea Belt Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Thanzeel Nazer
Jayaseelan Raj. 2022. Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian Tea Belt. London: UCL Press. 256 pp. Figures, maps, tables, appendix, references, index. £40 (hardback—ISBN: 9781800082298)
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Book review: Bharat Jayram Venkat. 2021. At the Limits of Cure Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Kiran Kumbhar
Bharat Jayram Venkat. 2021. At the Limits of Cure. Durham: Duke University Press. 304 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. $27.95 (paperback—ISBN: 9781478014720)
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Book review: Shannon Philip. 2022. Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Raphael Susewind
Shannon Philip. 2022. Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. xii + 197 pp. Appendix, references, i...
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The Jharkhand Andolan: A silencing of Muslim voice(s) Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Abhik Bhattacharya
The subaltern turn in historiography has changed the way we read history/histories. The omissions and silence(s) that happen at the stage of ‘fact creation’ provide us with a way of looking into ho...
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Whence karma? Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Johannes Bronkhorst
How did the belief in rebirth and karmic retribution come into existence? W. D. Whitney called it ‘one of the most difficult questions in the religious history of India’, and Richard Salomon descri...
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Book review: Sangeeta Dasgupta. 2022. Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Savyasaachi
Sangeeta Dasgupta. 2022. Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 368 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. ₹1450 (hardback)
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V: A critical stock-taking of health services for the adivasis in western Odisha at the time of COVID-19 pandemic Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Asima Jena
By the end of March 2021, 10 districts of western Odisha, bordering Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, were badly hit by the second wave of COVID-19. Stock-taking of the public health infrastructure in th...
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Book review: David N. Gellner and Sondra L. Hausner, eds. 2018. Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Dikshya Karki
David N. Gellner and Sondra L. Hausner, eds. 2018. Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 540 pp. Maps, tables, figures, ref...
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Book review: Farhana Ibrahim and Tanuja Kothiyal, eds. 2021. South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Malvika Sharma
Farhana Ibrahim and Tanuja Kothiyal, eds. 2021. South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. x + 286 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, references, inde...
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Book review: Ranjita Dawn. 2021. The Social Model of Disability in India: Politics of Identity and Power Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Ozancan Bozkurt
Ranjita Dawn. 2021. The Social Model of Disability in India: Politics of Identity and Power. New York: Routledge. xvi + 199 pp. Notes, references, index. $53.35 (eBook)
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Book review: Rashmi Sadana. 2022. The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Sushmita Pati
Rashmi Sadana. 2022. The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. x + 252 pp. Figures, maps, notes, bibliography,...
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Book review: Gowri Vijayakumar. 2021. At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Shannon Philip
Gowri Vijayakumar. 2021. At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 280 pp. Appendix, Notes, bibliography, index. $85 (hardback)
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Book review: Lucas Chancel. 2020. Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Shoma Choudhury Lahiri
Lucas Chancel. 2020. Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment. Translated by M. B DeBevoise. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. viii + 176 pp. Notes...
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The making of the Malayalee public sphere and the exclusion of Mappila women: Language and communal politics in Colonial Malabar Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Babu C.T. Sunil
This article discusses the formation and distinctive evolution of the Malayalee public sphere in Malabar from the second half of the 19th century. When the press was introduced, versions of Malayal...
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The theopolitics of protest: Martyrdom in the Gujjar Andolan, the army and the epic Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Devika Bordia
In this article, I examine the ways in which ideas of martyrdom are employed by Gujjars in Rajasthan to describe their experiences of participating in the 2006 and 2007 Gujjar Andolan (protest), serving in the army, and in their telling of the Devnarayan epic. I take as a starting point the manner in which the bodies of Gujjars killed in police firing during the andolan were laid out for 17 days at
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IV: Glimpses from villages in the Northeast: Traditional quarantine measures came alive during the COVID-19 pandemic Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Thongkholal Haokip
During the COVID-19 pandemic, communities in the hills of Northeast India fought the epidemic by taking recourse to traditional preventive health measures, both sealing off villages and quarantining to combat the spread of the highly infectious coronavirus. These traditional emergency health measures grew out of local experience with disease but resemble the current practices of lockdown and quarantine
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Editorial Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Rita Brara
As we launch the first issue of 2022, its delayed publication is a reminder of how, in common with most of the world, we too were affected by staggered contributions as our authors and team coped with distress, illness and work-from-home in the wake of COVID-19.
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Seeing through the law: A debate on caste in medieval Dharmasastra Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Donald R. Davis, Jr.
It is well known that the legal texts of the Hindu tradition known as Dharmaśāstra vigorously defend caste and social hierarchy. Studies of the nature of caste in this textual tradition, however, h...
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Book review: Saiba Varma. 2020. The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Arif Hayat Nairang
Saiba Varma. 2020. The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir. Durham and London: Duke University Press. xx + 281 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $27.94 (eBook)
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Book review: Nilika Mehrotra, ed. 2020. Disability Studies in India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Renu Addlakha
Nilika Mehrotra, ed. 2020. Disability Studies in India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. xiii + 318 pp. Tables, figures, references. €96.29 (eBook)
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Book review: Durba Mitra. 2020. Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Sreeparna Chattopadhyay
Durba Mitra. 2020. Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 296 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $29.9...
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Book review: Markus Schleiter and Erik de Maaker, eds. 2020. Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Rashi Bhargava
Markus Schleiter and Erik de Maaker, eds. 2020. Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia. London and New York: Routledge. xvi + 281 pp. Notes, figures, references, index. £120.00 (hardback)
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Book review: James Staples. 2020. Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Suryakant Waghmore
James Staples. 2020. Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India. Seattle: University of Washington Press. xvi + 229 pp. Figures, notes, glossary, references, ...
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Book review: Usha Sanyal. 2020. Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Epsita Halder
Usha Sanyal. 2020. Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. xiv + 395 pp. Figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, ...
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Ethnicity and protective policies in Sikkim: Consolidation and reconfiguration Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Sandhya Thapa
This article examines how ethnicities in the state of Sikkim have evolved and emerged as fluid but potent instruments that are deployed by the state’s constituent ethnic groups in their efforts to ...
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III: Three years into the pandemic: What changed in Delhi’s electronic bazaars Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Maitrayee Deka
The initial impressions from Delhi’s Lajpat Rai Market, Palika Bazaar and Nehru Place have been that they integrated into the digital economy as suppliers and service providers to e-commerce platfo...
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Energy, climate and structural change Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Nitin Desai
The study of human history suggests that the sources of the energy used to sustain production and consumption are the defining determinants of the productive structure, and by implication of the social structure. This article assesses the economic and sociopolitical changes that one can expect because of the major changes in energy sources required to tackle the threat of global warming. It spells
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Domestic environments, urban air and climate change Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Awadhendra Sharan
Climate change and the pandemic, each in its own way, has powerfully drawn our attention to the imbrication of human lives with non-humans. In this article, I attempt to address these linkages through a focus on energy use and environment in Indian cities, especially in domestic settings. The introduction section of the article presents its background. The second section discusses weather and the colonial
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Contingent resistance: The politics of waste commons in neoliberal Delhi Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Olivia Calleja
This article examines Delhi’s neoliberal regime of solid waste management and the evolving and hybrid trajectory of appropriation that it gives rise to. Working with a commons/enclosure framework, I analyse how the privatisation of waste management unfolds amidst complex waste work community relations and dense labour politics to create contingent and unanticipated scenarios that modify the enclosure
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Climate change, gender and rural development: Making sense of coping strategies in the Shivalik Hills Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Aase J. Kvanneid
The lower Shivalik Hills of North India is a region that is experiencing rapid socio-environmental challenges from interrelated changes in climate, market and society. While decades of governmental development efforts in the rural region have brought increased access to education, sanitation and improved infrastructure in the lower Shivalik Hills, the region is still characterised by poverty, illiteracy
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Book review: Aase J. Kvanneid. 2021. Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Gideon Thomas Mathson
Aase J. Kvanneid. 2021. Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account. Oxford: Routledge. 182 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. £29.59 (eBook)
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Book review: Hannah Knox. 2020. Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Vasundhara Bhojvaid
Hannah Knox. 2020. Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change. Durham: Duke University Press. xv + 314 pp. Notes, figures, references, index. $27.95 (eBook)
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Book review: Manisha Rao, ed. 2021. Reframing the Environment: Resources, Risk and Resistance in Neoliberal India Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Shweta Rani
Manisha Rao, ed. 2021. Reframing the Environment: Resources, Risk and Resistance in Neoliberal India. Oxford: Routledge. xx + 220 pp. References, index. ₹995 (hardback)
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The chronopolitics of the Anthropocene: The pandemic and our sense of time Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Dipesh Chakrabarty
By drawing on the phenomena of anthropogenic climate change and the pandemic as two examples of the geologists’ idea of the Anthropocene, this article seeks to explain how the Anthropocene leads to a plurality of overlapping but conflicting temporalities for humans. This problem of time makes it difficult to imagine any globally concerted effort to deal with the Anthropocene or climate change as such
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Book review: Sunita Narain, Shazneen Cyrus Gazdar, Avantika Goswami, and Tarun Gopalakrishnan (edited by Souparno Banerjee). 2021. Climate Change: Science and Politics Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Upasna Sharma
Sunita Narain, Shazneen Cyrus Gazdar, Avantika Goswami, and Tarun Gopalakrishnan (edited by Souparno Banerjee). 2021. Climate Change: Science and Politics. New Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment. x + 198 pp. Figures, illustrations, maps, notes, references, tables. ₹750 (paperback)
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Book review: John Stratton Hawley. 2020. Krishna’s Playground: Vrindavan in the 21st Century Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Amit Kumar Sharma
John Stratton Hawley. 2020. Krishna’s Playground: Vrindavan in the 21st Century. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. xx + 361 pp. Maps, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ₹750.75 (eBook)
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Book review: Max Liboiron. 2021. Pollution is Colonialism Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Vasudha Chhotray
Max Liboiron. 2021. Pollution is Colonialism. Durham: Duke University Press. xiv + 197 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. $24.95 (eBook)
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Introduction: What might we mean by the Anthropocene? Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Rita Brara
‘[T]here is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.’ (Michel Foucault 1977: 27)
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Climate change in the courts: An environmental lawyer’s viewpoint Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Ritwick Dutta
Climate change today is a reality facing every part of the world and India is no exception. Judicial institutions—courts and tribunals—have a crucial role in adjudicating on climate concerns as the society tries on the one hand to reduce emissions, build resilience against a rapidly warming world and erratic weather patterns, and adapt to the changing climate. Impacts of climate change include melting
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Book review: Lesley Green (with a foreword by Isabelle Stengers). 2020. Rock | Water | Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Chandana Anusha
Lesley Green (with a foreword by Isabelle Stengers). 2020. Rock | Water | Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa. Durham and London: Duke University Press. xxv + 296 pp. Maps, notes, figures, illustrations, bibliography, index. $27.95 (eBook).
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Book review: Sujata Patel, ed. 2020. Exploring Sociabilities of Contemporary India: New Perspectives Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Madhulika Sonkar
Sujata Patel, ed. 2020. Exploring Sociabilities of Contemporary India: New Perspectives. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. 328 pp. Notes, index. Rs 945 (hardback)
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Book review: Sudha Sitharaman and Anindita Chakrabarti, eds. 2020. Religion and Secularities: Reconfiguring Islam in Contemporary India Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Sumbul Farah
Sudha Sitharaman and Anindita Chakrabarti, eds. 2020. Religion and Secularities: Reconfiguring Islam in Contemporary India. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. 240 pp. Rs. 795 (hardback).
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Book review: Sasanka Perera. 2020. The Fear of the Visual? Photography, Anthropology, and Anxieties of Seeing Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Malavika Karlekar
Sasanka Perera. 2020. The Fear of the Visual? Photography, Anthropology, and Anxieties of Seeing. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. 260 pp. Photographs, references, index. Rs 850 (hardback).
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Book review: Sujata Patel, ed. 2020. Exploring Sociabilities of Contemporary India: New Perspectives Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Priya Bose
Swargajyoti Gohain. 2020. Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 246 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. €98.99 (eBook).
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Book review: Brahma Prakash. 2019. Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Chandan Bose
Brahma Prakash. 2019. Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. xvi + 332 pp. Bibliography, index. Rs 1195 (hardback).
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Book review: Dwaipayan Banerjee. 2020. Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Robert D. Smith
Dwaipayan Banerjee. 2020. Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi. Durham and London: Duke University Press. x + 224 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $25.95 (eBook).
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Book review: Amita Baviskar. 2020. Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Ajay Immanuel Gonji
Amita Baviskar. 2020. Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi. New Delhi: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd. (with YODA Press, New Delhi). 300 p. Bibliography, figures, glossary, illustrations, index. ₹1,195 (hardback).
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Professional identities and servile realities: Aspirational labour in Delhi malls Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Keya Bardalai
The article explores how retail workers envision and pursue aspirations for social mobility through employment in Delhi malls. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation, this study examines how retail store employees cultivate professional occupational identities as a way of distancing themselves from informal and manual workers and claim a new class identity. The article
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II: Perspectives on the lockdown from Delhi’s night shelters Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Gideon Thomas Mathson
The COVID-19 lockdown was a frenetic period for inmates of the night shelters in Delhi. The difficulty in maintaining employment, social distancing, sanitation, safety measures and sanity that were regarded as critical factors could not be ensured. Yet, it was apparent that the residents’ experiences during this time varied, and their lives were differentially affected by the pandemic. The following
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Being Muslim the Chhipa way: Caste identity as Islamic identity in a low-caste Indian Muslim community Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Carla Bellamy
This article adds to the emergent picture of caste practices among Indian Muslim communities through a focus on caste-based discourses and practices in the contemporary OBC Muslim Chhipa community (OBC, short for ‘Other Backward Class’, is an Indian-government designation). The article examines Muslim Chhipa origin stories, marriage practices and language strategies and shows the ways in which these
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Gold governance and goldsmithery: Economic sociology of an informal manufacturing sector in India Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Sruti Kanungo, Anindita Chakrabarti
In India, gold’s uniqueness lies in its dual demand for ‘sacred’ ritual purposes as well as ‘profane’ economic security. As a scarce commodity, gold is continuously monitored and regulated by the state. This study investigates how communities associated with the craft and trade of gold jewellery cope with state regulations, an aspect that has largely gone undocumented in sociological literature. The
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I: COVID-19 pandemic and the politics of risk: Perspectives on science, state and society in India Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 V. Sujatha
Health behaviour of the people is said to be shaped by market forces, scientific or religious institutions or the state. It is pertinent to examine the dominant institutions that shape health cultures in any society, at any given point in time. While public health has not been a priority for the Indian state, the COVID-19 pandemic created an unmistakable opportunity for state regulation. It is the
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Obituary: Vinay Kumar Srivastava: A memoir (3 December 1952–23 December 2020) Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Soumendra Mohan Patnaik
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Becoming Hindu: The cultural politics of writing religion in colonial Assam Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-02-26 Madhumita Sengupta
The use of labels such as ‘isolation’ or ‘assimilation’ to characterise tribal communities dwelling in the plains region of British Assam had a discursive history that took no notice of the region’s prolonged tradition of vibrant interfaith transmissions and cultural exchanges. This essay flags a disjuncture between early ethnographic literature on the ‘tribes’ of the plains region of Assam, and their
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What’s in an argument? Reflections on knowledge exchanges Contributions to Indian Sociology (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-02-26 Marilyn Strathern
This article draws on a turn of events in the speaker’s long association with Papua New Guinea in the Pacific. Pacific Island academics have made it clear that anthropologists should be explicit about ‘knowledge exchange’. Knowledge transfers take innumerable forms; in the case of the anthropologist, however, it often seems that expert knowledge is more taken than given. Thinking comparatively about