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The South Asianist
ISSN 2050-487X · University of Edinburgh · 149 artikel di indeks
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Epistemologies of Land Relations in India’s Tribal Frontier
This article contributes to the burgeoning critical literature on Naga lifeworlds by using a heterodox Foucaultian and Marxist framework. The analysis is structured as a genealogy that reinterprets the ways that historical epistemologies have shaped contemporary land relations in Nagaland. Our…
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Empowering or burdening women?
In many developing countries like Nepal, women are vocationally trained in ‘women-friendly’ professions, encouraging them to enter the labour market. Amidst discussions concerning the role of gender-stereotyped Vocational Training (VT) programmes in empowering women, this research makes a…
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Chipko and Beyond
Written in a chronological order, the book has various thematic overlaps. Embracing them, and placing the book in the larger contemporary political context, I offer a critical review of the book. In the first sub-section, I analyse the formation and deformation of the movement as presented in the…
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Madeleine Slade (Mirabehn): A Pilgrimage
When two cultures come into contact with each other, there is a play of power and supremacy. This is a social reality and something that people have to deal with not only in the socio-political sense, but also in emotional states. Gandhi and Slade’s relationship shows the reality of emotional…
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Simic's Shoes
This is a short essay that pays tribute to the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Simic who turned 92 on 9th May.The article looks at one poem by Simic routed through the vision of Van Gogh and the reality of the 16 deaths of migrant workers on the railway track in Maharashtra, India, on 8th May…
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Unveiling the Lost Voices
Interrogating Identities: Tribals in Bengali Short Stories published by the Centre of Excellence, Department of Odia, Visva-Bharati, Santinketan and the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi and translated by Dr Saptarshi Mallick aims at unveiling the lost and suppressed voices…
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Exploring Migration and Disaster Nexus
The nexus between migration and disaster has commonly been referred to in previous researches. In particular, previous studies often describe migration as a coping strategy for climate and water-induced disasters (WID). Yet, limited studies have explored the role of migration in triggering disaster…
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The Ramayana: A Stage Play and A Screen Play
This is a book review of Bashabi Fraser's book The Ramayana: A Stage Play and a Screen Play
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The Nectar of the Master's Speech
The famous spiritual personality of mid-Victorian Bengal, Sri Ramakrishna (monastic name of Gadadhar Chattopadhyay) was, like Socrates of Hellenic Athens, an oral prophet. His method of teaching and preaching was through informal and homely homilies and anecdotes. These, compiled and subsequently…
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The historiography of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
This essay challenges the historiography of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, India. Drawing on colonial and postcolonial source materials, in addition to contemporary discussions and scholarship that places the 1919 events in the context of the longue durée of British colonial violence…
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Narratives of change
Adaptation is becoming increasingly significant for public policy and practice in dealing with climate change-related risks and achieving sustainable development. Consequently, the exploration of different ways of assisting successful adaptation has brought under scrutiny the different lifestyles…
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The proposed Nepal-China trans-border railway in Nepal’s collective imagination
Nepal-China relations have been amicable since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1955. Consequently, the image of China in Nepal’s collective imagination has remained positive. This imagination reached new heights when China welcomed the promulgation of Nepal's new constitution in September…
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Inducing return to Pakistan
Germany welcomed over a million refugees following the so-called “long summer of migration” in 2015. Today, however, seeking asylum in Germany has become ever more difficult. Amongst other “undeserving” economic refugees, the Afghans and Pakistanis are suffering from a shift in the German asylum…
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Apocalyptic desires and possessing the world through the gaze
Whilst cinema certainly propagates social change as a signpost of dominant ideologies and prevalent values in society, it may also be a means to establish resisting positions, and here I examine the dynamics of ‘looking’ versus ‘to be looked-at-ness’, as it were. I attempt this through a reading of…
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Rabindranath and Sharatchandra as novelists
Rabindranath Tagore and Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay were contemporaries, the former being senior to the latter by fifteen years. They were arguably the most popular poet and novelist in India, especially Bengal. However, there are marked contrasts between these two literary luminaries of late…