Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1177/22308075231201906
Wasia Hamid, Tanveer Ahmad Khan, Irfanullah Farooqi, Shaista Qayum
This study examines the lived experiences of Tibetan Muslims in Kashmir. They witnessed active and passive forms of exclusion during pre and post-migration. Though they enjoyed a dignified life before Tibet was conquered by China, once China colonised Tibet and its people, the Tibetan Muslims migrated for safeguarding their lives. Their post-migration settlements in different parts of India could not help them live life the way they lived in Tibet. To understand the challenges and exclusion they face, we conducted this study on 50 participants (comprising 30 men and 20 women) from the Tibetan Muslim community living in Kashmir. These participants were recruited with the help of a key informant. A mixed-method analysis was used to get comprehensive information about the research problem. The results of our study reveal various forms of exclusion: (a) caste-oriented, (b) marriage practice-related, (c) family-related, (d) exclusion in higher education, (e) occupation-based and (f) exclusion from various items listed in the Tibetan Muslims Deprivation Index in Kashmir. The authors attempted to understand their sense of being excluded, discriminated against and alienated on many grounds by meticulously attending to various narratives obtained through face-to-face interviews.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-29DOI: 10.1177/22308075231201907
Khiamniungan T. Longkoi
Customary law and its practices in tribal culture usually reproduce gender bias on almost all fronts. Focusing on Khiamniungan, one of the Naga tribes, this article tries to illustrate the patriarchal aspect of social reality as it is manifested through customary practices, folklore, local sayings and local proverbs. Based on ethnographic research, the study argues that the institution of Morung is the epitome of customary practices and justifies patriarchy, especially in the political sphere. Also, Naga women have to bargain and negotiate on all fronts: property rights, decisions in marriage and divorce, public participation and so on. As a result, such dominance silences the Naga women’s experiential history. The attempt is to critically reflect on the colonial narrative of Nagas as an egalitarian and democratic society and further highlight that the colonial paradigm continues to be reproduced in postcolonial times without an empirical and critical reflection.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1177/22308075231201911
Vibhavari Shashank Kavle
Indian Iranis are denotified/nomadic tribes living in India since the sixteenth century. A large migrating group of them was declared criminals under British law. Post-independence too this label continued. Even today, police, media and society treat them as criminals. This article argues that though the British-targeted group of the Indian-Irani community was not involved in crime considerably (28 convictions of petty thefts in 98 years), it was noted as criminal tribes in police reports in and around the Bombay presidency from the year 1842 to 1940. A Police Report on Vagrant Bands of Foreigners of 1879 and notes and books by the then British police officers reflect the same. A then foreign-originated, nontribal, isolated community of Indian Iranis was labelled as criminals by the Britishers step-wise. The article briefs that the undue criminalisation of one group from this community further led to the criminalisation of the larger group from this community in independent India. Primary data witnessing the impact of such constant criminalisation on the current generation of the community in Ambivli, Thane district, Maharashtra is also briefly discussed in this article. The theories of labelling in criminology most fit to describe this criminalisation.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1177/22308075231201909
R. B. Azad Choudhary
One of the most important reasons behind the success of the Mughal military campaigns and expeditions was the regular supply of the rasad (ration), fodder and forage to the location of military encampment. It has been observed that due to lack of proper supply and transport of the food material, the armies often had even starved. 1 Indeed, this scarcity was caused due to the non-arrival of the banjaras on time with various supplies. 2 Consequently, the Mughal rulers and military commanders always tried their best to utilise the services of the banjaras, especially during their engagement in military campaigns. In the absence of any specific department regarding the supply of food, grain, and fodder to the far distant locality during the military campaigns, the Mughal state mainly depended upon the services provided by the Banjaras as the transporters of essential commodities required for the Mughal military expeditions. The logistics associated to procurement of foodstuff and fodder was crucial related to the Mughal military expeditions. Consequently, in this context, the usefulness of banjaras as transporter was undoubtedly of great importance.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1177/22308075231204929
Mona Das
Water governance has been at the centre of societal formations. From ‘hydraulic societies’ headed by ‘oriental despots’ to community-based models of water governance all point to the centrality of this naturally available resource defining state-society-citizen relations. Accessing water under the modern welfare state came to be seen as a ‘material’ emblem of citizenship. Later, neoliberalism paved the way for commercialisation and privatisation riding high on the slogan of ‘universal access’ and discourse of ‘scarcity’. These paradigmatic shifts signalled changes in water governance. This article charts a broad-brush history of changes in the governance structure and logic of water supply over the last seven decades in Delhi. It focuses on a specific aspect of water governance, that is, mechanisms to supply drinking water in post-colonial Delhi. The case of the capital city of a developing country has been used as a prism to comment on the trajectory of water governance in post-colonial societies.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/22308075231164681
Sohail Nazim, K. Haider
The prison system is crucial to administering criminal justice and maintaining peace in society. Indian prisons have a long history dating back to the ancient and modern eras. It remains a travesty of the Indian criminal justice system to manage and administer prisons, particularly during the medieval and modern periods. Even the current prison conditions are woeful, requiring a change in the system. The first prison reformation in India began under Lord Macaulay in 1835. Human rights for prisoners have been vehemently advocated and protected by the Indian Constitution and Judiciary. Because of these factors, human rights movements related to prisoners have continued to grow in India. In this article, the authors analysed the evolution of the prison system in India through the lens of human rights.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1177/22308075231164673
M. Choudhary
In the history of India, the Thar Desert always had a backseat due to its harsh weather conditions and apprehensions flowing from the adverse weather conditions. Ignorance of the region for long in writings of the discipline has pushed the region under the carpet and if any approach has been made to explore its history, it has been mainly in terms of the nomadic (Mer, Rebari, etc.) and professional groups like musicians (Maganiyars, Bhopa, etc.) and folk artists (Kalbeliyas, Dum, etc.). Keeping an insight of all the works done so far around the region of Thar, this study is an attempt to explore the ecological components of the Thar Desert as without taking stock of its resources, it will be impossible to relate with its history. It is significant to explore the ecological ingredients of the Thar Desert as their economic worth led to the formation of political alliances amongst various ruling houses—close and afar—as they all wanted a share in its resources and that too peacefully. Finally, all these associations led to the expansion of the imperial control that was aiming to gain a larger share in the resources and regulate the political moves of this environmentally harsh region.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1177/22308075231155247
G. Krishnan
The author is a career banker with over 30 years of working experience. The job has given him an opportunity to interact extensively with people from all parts of India. One similarity that is profound, cutting across the landscape of this country, be it a farmer in a rural village in Gujarat, Executive Director of a Public Sector Undertaking in Delhi, a start-up entrepreneur in Bengaluru, or a motivational speaker in Chennai, the Indian DNA is dominated by Karma Theory and we Indians live the ‘Gita’ subconsciously. The article is an attempt to highlight the same for the students and the youth of our country. The work is subsequent to the current government’s announcement regarding the introduction of Gita as a part of the academic curriculum and the protests that followed against its implementation. The work brings out that Gita is a psychological treatise cutting across age, sex and affiliations. The work breaks the myth that Gita is post-retirement entertainment and establishes that it is a weapon that enables an individual to fight the daily battles of life. The Gita is the nerve centre of Indian culture and has influenced its civilisation. Gita meets the spiritual, emotional and cultural needs of a seeker and enhances resilience of the individual. So, hurry up, as Gita cannot wait. ‘GITA’ Cannot wait ….
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1177/22308075231164672
R. Ankit
This article searches for Dr B. R. Ambedkar (India’s first Law Minister) in the pages of The Times of India (TOI; India’s largest-selling English-language newspaper) from December 1956 to April 1990, that is, from Ambedkar’s death to his receiving the Bharat Ratna. A lone soldier for his social and political causes, during his life and after his death, Ambedkar’s afterlife has recently seen a total transformation in contemporary India. This article looks for Ambedkar before this turn by going through the pages of TOI over a period of thirty-four years, to trace both his representation in and resistance to it, before the current appropriation, on four key themes of religion (neo-Buddhism), region (Bombay/Maharashtra), caste (scheduled/backward) and class (lower-middle/political). Drawing upon 200+ items, the article presents the newspaper’s expanding coverage of Ambedkar in Indian politics in a framework of continuum that reconciles its changes, by focussing on the regularity of these reports and analysing their periodicity. Taken together, these details allow us to see the slow switch in the status quo on Ambedkar’s iconography, long before the present idolisation, and fill a political vacuum before his present veneration.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1177/22308075231155232
Archana Dassi, Chand Mahal Ruby
This study presents an ethnographic account of the lives of young Muslim women who underwent Islamic religious education in madrasa. It examines their body-image narratives. It focuses on how the socialisation at madrasa has shaped their image of themselves concerning bodily comportment, piety and modesty. It highlights different social actors from family, madrasa and media shape the image of these women. Accounts of six madrasa graduates who have studied Islamic theology for at least five years are examined. It focuses on Muslim women’s practice of purdah, keeping in mind cultural relativism and the perspective of the women who wear it. It unravels their everyday choice construction regarding the perceptions and practices of adorning their bodies with and within the burqa. The study is based in New Delhi, India. It finds that purdah for the respondents represents piety and completes their being. The embracing of fashion, trends, makeup and other aspects of body image varies in individual degrees, with a shared understanding of doing it within the framework of modesty, as interpreted by them. They present a picture of being agents of their own within their domain of life, living and being.
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