Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1177/00380229231218373
Tanaya Mohanty
A. Kolbel, J. Pfaff-Czarnecka and S. Thieme (Eds), Universities as Transformative Social Spaces: Mobilities and Mobilizations from South Asian Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2022), 330pp., ₹1695. ISBN: 9780192865571
A.Kolbel, J. Pfaff-Czarnecka and S. Thieme (Eds), Universities as Transformative Social Spaces：Mobilities and Mobilizations from South Asian Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2022), 330pp.ISBN: 9780192865571
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Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1177/00380229231218372
S. Ponnarasu
Anne Raffin, Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870–1914 (Asian History) (Amsterdam University Press, 2022), 250pp. (Hardcover). ISBN-10: 9463723552.
Anne Raffin，《法属殖民地朋迪榭里的共和公民身份，1870-1914 年》（亚洲历史）（阿姆斯特丹大学出版社，2022 年），250 页。(精装）。ISBN-10：9463723552。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1177/00380229231212886
Richard Axelby, Vikramaditya Thakur
The socio-economic condition of Scheduled Tribe (ST) groups of India has been a key academic concern since the administrative category was established by Constitutional Order in 1950. This article explores the integration of ST groups into the present-day Indian capitalist economy along with the social and political forces that have shaped this process of inclusion from the colonial period onwards. Specifically, it compares experiences of residual poverty and relational inequality among two groups administratively classified as ST—Gaddi in Himachal Pradesh and Bhils in Maharashtra. Recognising that Gaddi and Bhils remain rooted at the bottom of socio-economic hierarchies we ask why this remains the case despite affirmative action programmes aimed at ensuring ST inclusion in educational institutions, government jobs and elected bodies along with many welfare schemes. Against the backdrop of booming India, the article documents how Bhils and Gaddis struggle to negotiate the obstacles which block paths to economic and social mobility.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/00380229231212894
Mahesh Kumar, Asima Jena
Under Buddhist philosophy, followed by Dalits and other marginalised groups, an organic relationship exists between environment, knowledge and society where natural resources are conceived as equal partners and their identity is enmeshed with these. However, this organic balance between environment, knowledge and society gets disrupted by certain kind of materialistic thinking which not only creates ecological imbalance but also social conflict, exposes people to a whole range of risks like dislocation, loss of livelihood, work burden for women, health issues, loss of culture to destruction of civil rights. Against this backdrop, this paper reflects on sustainable development and analyses environmental degradation caused by the proliferation of chemical and pharmaceutical industry by encapsulating how neoliberalism smartly appropriate caste system and its attendant inequality, resulting in pain and suffering of subaltern masses. Foregrounding the study in the four villages of Sanand Block, Ahmedabad district of Gujarat, this article discusses the politics of environmentalism, spells out ‘environmentalism of the poor’ and narrates the way subaltern communities manage to live with environmental burden.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1177/00380229231212885
Suresh Babu G.S
Mobilisation of Ladakhi youth in the upper hills of western Himalayas through education represents a distinct cultural and ethnic identity. Notwithstanding the possibility of studying such mobilisation as effects of education, this article highlights that, being educated outside of Ladakh, the youth not only cultivate and develop multiple levels of consciousness about their situation but also carefully employ their cultural imperatives to mobilise politically. In a regional historical context with a comparative perspective, education is analysed as a tool for mobilising youth which subsequently shaped the local community for political transformation. Instead of talking of youth in isolation, the analytical framework captures the narrative structures of educational transformation and political mobilisation in a region. Becoming a Union Territory in 2019 after the bifurcation of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state is the untold story behind the consistent struggle led by the Ladakhi-educated youth to articulate cultural and territorial identity and meet a long-standing demand for the regional autonomy. Through the narratives of history, this article highlights that the youth of Ladakh has been very much part of mobilisation for education as well as central to internal educational reforms and social progress that forecast the political imagination of a regional identity.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1177/00380229231212891
Shruti Sharma
Sport has historically furthered the myth of female frailty by making it the basis for women’s exclusion from early participation, and hitherto, for inclusion on restricted conditions. The article focuses on the gendered rules of play in cricket which manifest materially by altering an object, the space and temporality of play translating into the use of a smaller ball within a shorter boundary and lesser hours of playtime for women in comparison to men. While the historical and existing justifications for each of the differences in rules revolve around varied meanings of what ‘being frail’ entails for women, the supposed easing of conditions is also expected to encourage and enable women to emulate men’s style of play, and hence, make their game ‘exciting’. Drawing from fieldwork and interviews of women cricketers who represent the state of Rajasthan (India) in the Board of Control for Cricket in India domestic tournaments, the article unpacks the on-ground manifestation of the three gendered rules to argue that the altered nature of play makes the women’s version more challenging and hence, distinct and separate from the men’s version and its valuations. Foregrounding women’s layered experiences, the article shows the way women play sport cannot be captured within the imposed binary logic of frail and non-frail.
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