Contributions to Indian Sociology

02/05/2023

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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 ...

04/04/2023

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20/03/2023

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. Read more @

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 ...

09/02/2023

The Mother’s children: The making of memory and intimacy at the Gurus’ Samadhi
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Tombs of gurus and religious leaders are central to the consolidation of religious communities through memorialisation and the public performance of rituals. In...

31/01/2023

Check out the article 'The making of the Malayalee public sphere and the exclusion of Mappila women: Language and communal politics in Colonial Malabar' @

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 pres...

16/12/2022

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09/11/2022

'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 marshal and retain control over its socio-economic and political resources, in conjunction with the policies of the central government. Read full article @

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 constitue...

13/10/2022

Lecture on "Representation and Self-representation Paper and Electronic Records in Punjab police Procedure and Corporate Customer Service"

Abstract: In 2013, the Indian state of Punjab contracted with a corporation to operate a new police phone helpline. The corporation call centre not only took complaints, but also monitored, directed, and reported police responses to them. An original provision of the Indian Code of Criminal Procedure, maintained since 1861, requires that oral testimony of complainants must be ‘reduced to writing’ by an authorised official. This requirement has been strained by the integration of corporate call centre customer service practices into the Punjab State police procedures. Audio recordings and database text records of complaints have only some of the features of writing and are not produced by a government officer. Nevertheless, the composite records generated by the call takers through corporate customer service software form the basis of quasi-official police proceedings. We can see in this arrangement two parallel tensions: first, a tension between two forms of human and technological mediation—the paper-based records of police and the call centre voice and database records; second, a tension between two conceptualisations of a political subject within bureaucratic procedures: one requiring representation by another authorised person and the other able to present him or herself.

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13/10/2022

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06/09/2022

How has the rapid socio-environmental challenges from interrelated changes in , market and society altered the the contemporary coping strategies in terms of gender in the region of lower Hills?

The lower Shivalik Hills of North India is a region that is experiencing rapid socio-environmental challenges from interrelated changes in climate, market and s...

29/08/2022

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