Pick up a travel guide to India. Look for any of the followingKakur Naichanpur Ikhar Davangere Azamgarh. Youd be lucky to find them mentioned in any detail. Even in cricket-centered talk these places dont ring a bell. A whole generation of cricket lovers have wallowed in the fandom of cricketing stars like Sachin Tendulkar from Mumbai…
Performance studies in India should be very pleased with the intervention made by Bishnupriya Dutt and Urmimala Sarkar Munsi. Taking the elements of search as well as identity quite seriously, the authors have managed to keep their work and explorations away from the theoretical closure that often accompanies such endeavours…
You might run across Damodar K.K. Ghanekar cycling in Panjim quite absent-minded and lost deep in thought. Without much ado and spending half-a-dozen years over the task Ghanekar recently put together Konkanis most ambitious dictionary one which spans over two thousand pages! To undertake a task of this scale perhaps one needs to be lost in a world of ones own!…
The state defines prison as a space for the isolation and reform of individuals not fit to live in society. Prisoners narratives of everyday life are jabs in this faade that bleed over the fabric of total spaces and stain it with its own fallacies. Mahuya Bandyopadhyays account makes a departure from the existing literature on Indian…
The Spirit of Hindu Law interestingly takes law beyond its legal definition and tries to relate it to the ordinary world. It talks of its ethos as well as what constitutes Hindu law and how it operated. To our minds today law is a very impersonal gigantic structure that seems almost impenetrable. We may see it read about it fear it even live within its bounds…
Dowry and its implications on women have perhaps been most discussed and debated when it comes to womens issues in India, so much so that the word dowry itself is almost synonymous with womens oppression. It therefore leaves one wondering what another book on dowry might have to say. The subtitle reveals that the present work…