Papers

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Swati Vijaya, Ohio State University
Spatiality of Caste and Gender in the Neo-liberal City: Tracing Migrant Trajectories of Gounder Women in Southern India

Monika Bhagat-Kennedy, University of Mississippi
“A Grand Asiatic Empire”: Swadeshi Transnationalism in the Early Indian Anglophone Novel

Natalia Di Pietrantonio, Cornell University
Islamification and Pornification: Rāgamālā Painting Albums from Avadh

Kalyani Ramnath, Princeton University
A Tale of Two Abdul Caders: Territory, Mobility and Political Belonging in 1940s India and Sri Lanka

Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Brown University
Bearing witness to atrocity: ethical spectatorship after Godhra

Maryam Fatima, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Maps of South Asian Literary Histories in Intizar Husain’s Fiction

Ankita Pandey, Oxford University
Movements and their ‘allies’: trajectories of participation in civil rights activism in India

Sarah Holz, Freie Universitat, Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies
Governing the Islamic and the Republic in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Shavari Sastry, University of Chicago
Of Interrupting Demons, Enraged Englishmen, and Wanton Women: Indian Theatre and the Spectre of Censorship

Sataskhi Sinha, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Experiments with Infrastructure: Railways, Cinema and Advertising in Colonial India

Dana Kornberg, University of Michigan
Exchanging Cultural Debt for Economic Capital: Why Bengali Muslims Became Garbage Collectors

Vimal Kumar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Caste, Dominance, and Violence in Haryana- A Case Study of Gorakhpur Village

Gopika Jadeja, National University of Singapore and King’s College, London
“You Keep the Cow’s Tail”: The Dalit Movement and Dalit Poetry in Gujarat

Ikuno Naka, Oxford University
Spectacular Accumulation: The Making of a Second-Tier City, Kochi

Anwesha Dutta, University of Gent
Whose land is it anyway? Legalizing (il)legality through the politics of ‘dokhol’ in the reserve forests of Assam, India