2024-03-28T18:24:41Z
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Rāshtrīy śiksā banām hindīsāhitya’ (National education vs Hindi literature)
Orsini, Francesca
Deshkal Prajashan
Agraval, Purushottam
Kumar, Sanjay
2000
Book Chapters
NonPeerReviewed
Orsini, Francesca (2000) 'Rāshtrīy śiksā banām hindīsāhitya’ (National education vs Hindi literature).' In: Agraval, Purushottam and Kumar, Sanjay, (eds.), Hindī naī cāl men ḍhalī. New Delhi: Deshkal Prajashan, pp. 38-55.
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:19018
2023-11-21T17:10:55Z
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Pilgrimage: Sikhism
Purewal, Navtej
Springer Nature
Mandair, Arvind-pal
2017-10-01
Book Chapters
NonPeerReviewed
Purewal, Navtej (2017) 'Pilgrimage: Sikhism.' In: Mandair, Arvind-pal, (ed.), Sikhism. Dordrecht: Springer Nature. (Encyclopedia of Indian Religions)
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:24160
2024-02-09T14:55:39Z
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Repressing Pakistan: Oppressed Balochistan, Suppressed Sovereignty
Waghmar, Burzine
BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
DS Asia
JQ Political institutions (Asia, Africa, Australia)
JZ International relations
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
2016-09-19
Book Chapters
NonPeerReviewed
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Waghmar, Burzine (2016) 'Repressing Pakistan: Oppressed Balochistan, Suppressed Sovereignty.' In: Faces of Oppression: Human Rights Violations in Balochistan. The Hague: Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), pp. 13-22.
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:24161
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Bombay chai: cheerless cuppa for Kashmiris.
Waghmar, Burzine
BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
DA Great Britain
DS Asia
G Geography (General)
JQ Political institutions (Asia, Africa, Australia)
JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
JZ International relations
The European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS)
2017-05-17
Other
NonPeerReviewed
text
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Waghmar, Burzine (2017) 'Bombay chai: cheerless cuppa for Kashmiris.' Amsterdam: The European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS).
https://www.efsas.org/research-contributions/bombay-chai-cheerless-cuppa-for-kashmiris.html
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:24283
2024-02-09T14:56:06Z
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South Asian women elders and everyday lives of ‘care in the community’ in Britain: the neoliberal turn in social care and the myth of the family
Purewal, Navtej
Jasani, Rubina
Taylor and Francis
2017-06-16
Journal Article
PeerReviewed
text
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Purewal, Navtej and Jasani, Rubina (2017) 'South Asian women elders and everyday lives of ‘care in the community’ in Britain: the neoliberal turn in social care and the myth of the family.' South Asian Diaspora, 9 (2). pp. 111-127.
10.1080/19438192.2017.1339381
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:24322
2021-05-19T18:00:38Z
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Postscripts on Independence: Foreign Policy Ideas, Identity, and Institutions in India and South Africa
Thakur, Vineet
Mallavarapu, Siddharth
Muppidi, Himadeep
Duvall, Raymond
India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth century decoloniszation, punched above their weight in global politics in their initial years of liberation. This book analyses the foreign policy ideas, identity, and institutions of these two newly independent states. Theoretically, it argues that foreign policy is often more than just a reaction to global events; rather it is a site where ideas of nationhood are legitimized. Nehru’s India advanced the idea of ‘civilisational pacifism’ through its foreign policy, in turn sanctifying a particular idea of India—a non-violent, secular, and civilizational state. Likewise, in South Africa, ‘rainbow nation’ and ‘African renaissance’, two ideas internalized in the country through its foreign policy, contest for predominance. The book also narrates the institutional history of the early years of the Ministry of External Affairs in India and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation in South Africa. In particular, it investigates the relationship between the political leadership and the foreign office bureaucracy in these two countries and discusses how this relationship affected decision-making. The traditions of national identity-making in these countries have also influenced their respective ideas of bureaucratic ‘professionalism’, which lay at the heart of understanding why the two ministries have developed different organization cultures. This book is the first detailed theoretical and historical comparative analysis of the foreign policies of two emerging countries from the Global South: India and South Africa.
Oxford University Press
2018-05-15
Authored Books
PeerReviewed
Thakur, Vineet, Mallavarapu, Siddharth, Muppidi, Himadeep and Duvall, Raymond (2018) Postscripts on Independence: Foreign Policy Ideas, Identity, and Institutions in India and South Africa. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. (Critical Global Thought)
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199479641.001.0001
10.1093/oso/9780199479641.001.0001
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:24323
2022-12-12T16:00:27Z
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Jan Smuts and the Indian Question
Thakur, Vineet
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
2017
Authored Books
NonPeerReviewed
Thakur, Vineet (2017) Jan Smuts and the Indian Question. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:25541
2022-12-12T12:26:08Z
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Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan: Gender and Caste Borders and Boundaries
Kalra, Virinder S.
Purewal, Navtej
Bloomsbury
2019-12-12
Authored Books
PeerReviewed
Kalra, Virinder S. and Purewal, Navtej (2019) Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan: Gender and Caste Borders and Boundaries. London: Bloomsbury. (Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality)
10.5040/9781350041783
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:25663
2024-02-09T15:00:40Z
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Review of Walter N. Hakala, Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia (New York: Columbia, August 2016)
Lunn, David
Taylor and Francis
2018-01-28
Book Reviews
NonPeerReviewed
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Lunn, David (2018) 'Review of Walter N. Hakala, Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia (New York: Columbia, August 2016).' South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 41 (1). pp. 238-240.
10.1080/00856401.2018.1412858
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:25664
2024-02-09T15:00:40Z
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Delight, Devotion and the Music of the Monsoon at the Court of Emperor Shah ‘Alam II
Lunn, David
Schofield, Katherine Butler
Niyogi Books
Pernau, Margrit
Schofield, Katherine Butler
Rajamani, Imke
2018-07
Book Chapters
NonPeerReviewed
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Lunn, David and Schofield, Katherine Butler (2018) 'Delight, Devotion and the Music of the Monsoon at the Court of Emperor Shah ‘Alam II.' In: Pernau, Margrit, Schofield, Katherine Butler and Rajamani, Imke, (eds.), Monsoon Feelings. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, pp. 219-254.
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:26028
2018-07-05T11:03:42Z
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Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis
Hamzić, Vanja
This chapter revisits the idea of Muslim Marxism, as espoused through the life and work of the Tatar Muslim and Bolshevik intellectual and revolutionary Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev (1892–1940). I argue that Sultan-Galiev’s oeuvre – a unique synthesis of Marxist, Muslim modernist, anti-colonial and Third World praxis – represents a path-breaking take on Muslim selfhood and practices of belonging.
Routledge
Natarajan, Usha
Reynolds, John
Bhatia, Amar
Xavier, Sujith
2018-01-15
Book Chapters
NonPeerReviewed
text
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Hamzić, Vanja (2018) 'Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis.' In: Natarajan, Usha, Reynolds, John, Bhatia, Amar and Xavier, Sujith, (eds.), Third World Approaches to International Law: On Praxis and the Intellectual. London: Routledge, pp. 105-118. (ThirdWorlds)
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:26538
2022-12-12T19:15:22Z
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Nirbhaya, New Media and Digital Gender Activism
Dey, Adrija
H Social Sciences (General)
HT Communities. Classes. Races
This title centres around digital gender activism focusing on the implications that the phenomenon of online gender activism has for politics, society, culture and gender relations/dynamics. On December 16th, 2012, Jyoti Singh, a female psychotherapy student from New Delhi was raped by six men in a moving bus while making her way home with a male friend. After 13 days spent fighting for her life, Jyoti Singh passed away. Abiding by Indian laws, Joyti’s actual name was never mentioned by the media and pseudonyms like ‘Nirbhaya’ (Hindi for fearless) were most commonly used. The brutal attack instantly triggered domestic and global criticism and widespread protests across India over the high levels of violence against Indian women and children, making it one of the biggest gender movements that the country has witnessed. The Nirbhaya case thus became a turning point in the politics of gender justice in India. The Nationwide protests that followed the case also witnessed one of the first and most extensive uses of digital technologies for activism in India having far reaching changes in how gender activism is conducted. Keeping the Nibhaya case at its core, this book explores and attempts to understand experiences and social constructs and investigate the use of digital technologies and social media by civil society actors, activists and organisations specifically for gender activism in India.
Emerald
Karatzogianni, Athina
2018-08-23
Authored Books
PeerReviewed
Dey, Adrija (2018) Nirbhaya, New Media and Digital Gender Activism. London: Emerald. (Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy and Culture in Network Communication)
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Nirbhaya-New-Media-and-Digital-Gender-Activism/?k=9781787545304
10.1108/978-1-78754-529-820181009
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:29863
2018-10-29T11:07:30Z
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Online Gender Activism in India and the Participation of the Indian Diaspora, 2012–2015
Dey, Adrija
H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences
Adrija Dey examines the online gender activism and role of Indian immigrants who physically could not be at events and took to social media to voice their opinion and contribute to the process of change. When talking about the use of ICTs for gender activism in India, the vast digital divide that exists in India must be taken into consideration. Additionally, it is difficult to organise and strategise such a decentralised movement, and steps need to be taken to establish vital connections and collaborations in order to keep the new gender movement alive.
Palgrave Macmillan
Karatzogianni, Athina
Nguyen, Dennis
Serafinelli, Elisa
2016-09-01
Book Chapters
NonPeerReviewed
Dey, Adrija (2016) 'Online Gender Activism in India and the Participation of the Indian Diaspora, 2012–2015.' In: Karatzogianni, Athina, Nguyen, Dennis and Serafinelli, Elisa, (eds.), The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere Conflict, Migration, Crisis and Culture in Digital Networks. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-168.
10.1057/978-1-137-50456-2_8
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:29885
2020-11-20T09:58:21Z
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A Brief Exploration of the Effects of ICTs and Social Media on the Gender Activism in India Post December 16th 2012
Dey, Adrija
Over the last few decades, while information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social media have been increasingly popular and a widely used tool for activism around the world, it is only in the recent past that people have started using these technologies as an alternative platform for activism in India. One of the most extensive use of digital technologies was witnessed in the nationwide protests in India post the Delhi Nirbhaya rape case on December 16th 2012 making it one of the biggest gender movements that the country has witnessed. The focus of this research is to investigate the use ICTs and social media by civil society actors, activists and organisations specifically for gender activism in India. The cyberconflict framework forms the foundation of this paper. The cyberconflict framework developed by Karatzogianni (2006) uses elements of the social movement theory (Mc-Adam, McCarthy & Zald, 1996), including the mobilizing structures, political opportunity and framing process, and combines it with media theory and conflict theory in order to understand the use of ICTs and social media in conflicts occurring in the cyberspace. In order to develop a critical analysis, a case study approach was adopted for this paper. The data was collected by conducting qualitative interviews along with analysing news reports published online, videos, articles on blogs and posts on social media sources such as Facebook and Twitter. Further thematic analysis was used to understand the nature and impact of use of ICTs and social media for gender activism in India.
CECS - Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade Universidade do Minho
Cerqueira, Carla
Cabecinha, Rosa
Magalhães, Sara I.
2016-03
Book Chapters
NonPeerReviewed
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Dey, Adrija (2016) 'A Brief Exploration of the Effects of ICTs and Social Media on the Gender Activism in India Post December 16th 2012.' In: Cerqueira, Carla, Cabecinha, Rosa and Magalhães, Sara I., (eds.), Gender in Focus: (New) Trends in Media. Braga: CECS - Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade Universidade do Minho, pp. 187-204.
https://core.ac.uk/reader/55641010
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2018-10-25T14:38:03Z
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Feminist Student Movements on University Campuses in India: Consent, Security and Patriarchal Protection
Deshmukh, Rutuja
Dey, Adrija
2018-03-27
Other
NonPeerReviewed
Deshmukh, Rutuja and Dey, Adrija (2018) 'Feminist Student Movements on University Campuses in India: Consent, Security and Patriarchal Protection.'
https://femrev.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/feminist-student-movements-on-university-campuses-in-india-consent-security-and-patriarchal-protection-rutuja-deshmukh-and-adrija-dey/
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:29921
2024-02-09T15:03:37Z
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Queer Desires and Satirised Empires: Notes on Aubrey Menen’s A Conspiracy of Women (1965)
Lunn, David
PR English literature
Zed Books
Luther, J. Daniel
Ung Loh, Jennifer
2019-05-15
Book Chapters
NonPeerReviewed
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Lunn, David (2019) 'Queer Desires and Satirised Empires: Notes on Aubrey Menen’s A Conspiracy of Women (1965).' In: Luther, J. Daniel and Ung Loh, Jennifer, (eds.), Queer Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender. London: Zed Books, pp. 125-145.
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More Law, More Crime? The Pitfalls of Pakistan's Illegal Dispossession Act 2005
Lau, Martin
Brill
2018-12
Journal Article
PeerReviewed
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Lau, Martin (2018) 'More Law, More Crime? The Pitfalls of Pakistan's Illegal Dispossession Act 2005.' Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, 19 (1). pp. 351-376.
10.1163/01901001_015
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:31480
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Outside Caste? The Enclosure of Caste and Claims to Castelessness in India and the United Kingdom
Mosse, David
Caste has always generated political and scholarly controversy but the forms that this takes today newly combine anti-caste activism with counter-claims about the irrelevance or non-existence of caste, or claims to castelessness. Such claims to castelessness are in turn viewed as a new disguise for caste power and privilege, as well as being an aspiration for people subject to caste-based discrimination. This article looks at elite claims to ‘enclose’ caste within religion (specifically Hinduism) and the (Indian) nation so as to restrict the field of social policy with regard to caste, to exempt caste (as a basis of discrimination) from the law, and limit the social politics of caste. It does so taking the comparative cases of caste and caste-based discrimination among non-Hindus, and outside India — the exclusion of Christian and Muslim Dalits (members of castes subordinated as ‘untouchable’) from provisions and protections as Scheduled Castes in India, and responses to the introduction of caste into anti-discrimination law in the UK. While Hindu organisations in the UK reject ‘caste’ as a colonial and racist term, deploying postcolonial scholarship to deny caste discrimination, Dalit organisations (representing its potential victims) turn to scholarly discourse on caste, race or human rights. These are epistemological disputes about categories of description and how ‘the social’ is made available for public debate, and especially for law. Such disputes engage with anthropology whose analytical terms animate and change the social world that is their subject.
Cambridge University Press
2020-01-01
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Mosse, David (2020) 'Outside Caste? The Enclosure of Caste and Claims to Castelessness in India and the United Kingdom.' Comparative Studies in Society and History, 62 (1). pp. 4-34.
10.1017/S0010417519000392
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Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres'
Hutt, Michael
H Social Sciences (General)
JA Political science (General)
PI Oriental languages and literatures
This piece reflects on the decline of Area Studies in the Euro- American academy. Although it is sometimes presented and discussed as if it were a discipline, the paper argues that it may be easier to chart an afterlife for Area Studies if we conceive of it as a multidisciplinary field that is predicated upon the significance of place and context, and on the importance of ‘somewheres’.
Taylor and Francis
2019-04-08
Journal Article
PeerReviewed
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Hutt, Michael (2019) 'Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres'.' South East Asia Research, 27 (1). pp. 21-25.
10.1080/0967828X.2019.1587925
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:32103
2020-01-05T13:23:23Z
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A Turn to Governance: Feminist Conundrums and Pakistan’s Neoliberal Future Past
Hamzić, Vanja
Feminist theories and epistemologies from the global south comprise a vast array of critical praxis, which has maintained a complex and often ambiguous web of relations with transnational feminist movements. On the one hand, in their attempts to decentre and disrupt the entrenched global northern knowledge-production mechanisms, southern feminisms have ventured to articulate the difference with which feminist knowledge is sought, fought for and attained in non-northern political and social contexts. On the other hand, global southern accounts of feminist resistance have shed new light on the complicities and entanglements southern women’s and feminist movements have struggled with in their slow accession to the global corridors of power, governed as they were by decidedly global northern types of feminist and non-feminist knowledge and power-relations.
This brief intervention should ideally cover both of these crucial aspects, i.e. the successes of certain strands of feminist politics and epistemologies in Pakistan that were at their most powerful and path-breaking when relying on local knowledge as well as a not-so-hopeful trajectory of governance feminism in Pakistan, which took a decidedly neoliberal turn.
2019-08-01
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Hamzić, Vanja (2019) A Turn to Governance: Feminist Conundrums and Pakistan’s Neoliberal Future Past. In: Panel on Feminist Theories and Epistemologies from the Global South, Symposium on Critical Approaches to International Law, August 2019, Griffith College Dublin, Ireland. (Unpublished)
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:32949
2024-02-09T15:13:08Z
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Disputing ‘market value’: the Bombay Improvement Trust and the reshaping of a speculative land market in early twentieth-century Bombay
Tejani, Shabnum
Urban expansion in the early twentieth century had a profound impact on India's urban land economies. Historians argue that in this period, urban India went through an increasing marketization of land and that improvement trusts had a significant hand in accelerating land speculation. In the case of Bombay, we still understand little of the relationship between the activities of the Bombay Improvement Trust and rising land values. The article examines key legal disputes around compensation for land acquired by the Trust for public purpose before and after World War I. Such cases show how the Trust and the judiciary shaped changing expectations around what comprised ‘market value’ and consequently became deeply involved in Bombay's land economy. Where officials had earlier resisted valuations that they believed encouraged speculation, after the 1920s the resolution of disputes incorporated future value as a legitimate and necessary part of the economy.
Cambridge University Press
2021-08
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Tejani, Shabnum (2021) 'Disputing ‘market value’: the Bombay Improvement Trust and the reshaping of a speculative land market in early twentieth-century Bombay.' Urban History, 48 (3). pp. 572-589.
10.1017/S0963926820000565
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Before the Dust Settled: Is Nepal’s 2015 Settlement a Seismic Constitution?
Hutt, Michael
JQ Political institutions (Asia, Africa, Australia)
PI Oriental languages and literatures
Two significant institutional developments occurred in the aftermath of the major earthquakes that struck Nepal in 2015: a new national constitution was drafted and promulgated and a National Reconstruction Authority was established. The constitution had been promised for over seven years, and was now completed within just over three months, while it took seven months for a Bill establishing the NRA to be passed in parliament. Many commentators have posited a direct causal relationship between the earthquake and the ‘fast-tracking’ of what was in certain respects a contentious constitution. Drawing upon conversations and interviews conducted in Nepal over the winter of 2017–18 and a close reading of media discourse and political analysis from 2015, this article will examine and assess the extent of this supposed causality. Given that the most radical and contentious change ushered in by the new constitution was the introduction of a federal structure for the state, particular attention will be paid to the evolution of the debate on this issue.
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2020-07-03
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Hutt, Michael (2020) 'Before the Dust Settled: Is Nepal’s 2015 Settlement a Seismic Constitution?' Conflict Security and Development, 20 (3). pp. 379-400.
10.1080/14678802.2020.1771848
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Doing Ethnographic Research during Covid-19 at Myanmar’s Main Public Hospital
Wuttke, Nora
2020-07-01
Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs
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Wuttke, Nora (2020) Doing Ethnographic Research during Covid-19 at Myanmar’s Main Public Hospital. SOAS University of London South Asia Notes [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]
https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/ssai-notes/2020/06/12/doing-ethnographic-research-during-covid-19-at-myanmars-main-public-hospital-by-nora-wuttke/
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Between Hind and Hellas: the Bactrian Bridgehead (with an Appendix on Indo-Hellenic interactions)
Waghmar, Burzine
CB History of civilization
CC Archaeology
CJ Numismatics
CN Inscriptions. Epigraphy.
DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World
DS Asia
G Geography (General)
P Philology. Linguistics
PI Oriental languages and literatures
PK Indo-Iranian languages and literatures
K. R. Cama Oriental Institute
Seshan, Radhika
2020-11
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Waghmar, Burzine (2020) 'Between Hind and Hellas: the Bactrian Bridgehead (with an Appendix on Indo-Hellenic interactions).' In: Seshan, Radhika, (ed.), Indo-Hellenic Cultural Transactions: Proceedings of the Seminar on Indo-Hellenic Cultural Transactions, K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 19-20 January, 2013. Mumbai: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, pp. 187-228.
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Annemarie Schimmel iv: Works on Iqbal and Indo-Muslim Studies.
Waghmar, Burzine
AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities
BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
CT Biography
PI Oriental languages and literatures
PK Indo-Iranian languages and literatures
Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation
Yarshater, Ehsan
2018-04-16
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Waghmar, Burzine (2018) 'Annemarie Schimmel iv: Works on Iqbal and Indo-Muslim Studies.' In: Yarshater, Ehsan, (ed.), Encyclopædia Iranica. New York: Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation.
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/schimmel-annmarie-iqbal-indomuslim
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Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography
Waghmar, Burzine
AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities
PD Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages
PE English
PI Oriental languages and literatures
PK Indo-Iranian languages and literatures
Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography
ZA4050 Electronic information resources
ZA4450 Databases
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation
Yarshater, Ehsan
2018-05-04
Book Chapters
NonPeerReviewed
Waghmar, Burzine (2018) 'Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography.' In: Yarshater, Ehsan, (ed.), Encyclopædia Iranica. New York: Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation.
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/schimmel-annmarie-bibliography
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Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas
Waghmar, Burzine
CB History of civilization
DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
DS Asia
G Geography (General)
P Philology. Linguistics
PI Oriental languages and literatures
PK Indo-Iranian languages and literatures
At the easternmost edge of the Iranic world, settled rather than saddled Scythians ran the kingdom of Khotan as Iranian-speaking Buddhists who traded and tussled with their T’ang and Tibetan neighbours. Straddling the Sino-Tibetan and Irano-Indic oecumenes, these Saka dynasts of the southern ‘Silk Road’ were conquered and converted by the Turkification and Islamisation of the Tarim Basin. Their effect, both historical and artistic, merits consideration in Scythian studies for their own achievements. This survey is based on the existing corpora of administrative and religious texts in Khotanese, an amply documented Middle Iranian language, which enables the tracing of the trajectory of these Scythian legatees until the end of antiquity.
Archaeopress
Pankova, Svetlana
Simpson, St John
2020-12
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Waghmar, Burzine (2020) 'Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas.' In: Pankova, Svetlana and Simpson, St John, (eds.), Masters of the Steppe: the Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia. Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 639-649.
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Colonial Sinews of Postcolonial Espionage: India and the Making of Ghana’s External Intelligence Agency, 1958-61
Paliwal, Avinash
Based on untapped Indian archives, this article details how Delhi built Accra’s security service in 1958-61. Keen to reduce its dependency on the outgoing British colonial administration, Ghana sought India’s support when both the Cold War rivalry and the Afro-Asian Solidarity were at a peak. In doing so, Ghana inherited a similar set of problems affecting Indian intelligence, which in itself was supported by the British i.e. resorting to colonial policing methods, lack of legislative oversight, and a recruitment system based on partisan loyalties instead of professionalism. The Foreign Service Research Bureau (external intelligence) and the Special Branch (domestic intelligence) effectively secured Ghana’s first prime minister and then president Kwame Nkrumah from real and perceived adversaries. But their methods of functioning fed his authoritarian appetite –ultimately leading to an unceremonious ouster– during a highly turbulent phase in Ghanaian history. The first and only time India helped create, and unofficially lead, another country’s intelligence service, this history sheds light on India and Ghana’s approach towards intelligence in the aftermath of independence.
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2022-10
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Paliwal, Avinash (2022) 'Colonial Sinews of Postcolonial Espionage: India and the Making of Ghana’s External Intelligence Agency, 1958-61.' The International History Review, 44 (4). pp. 914-934.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07075332.2021.1888768
10.1080/07075332.2021.1888768
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Opening the Black Box - The Making of India's Foreign Policy
Most studies looking at India’s external policies continue to
“black-box” the actual process of how Indian foreign policy is
made. More specifically, most studies generally overlook how
India’s complex domestic polity and bureaucratic apparatus
shape India’s foreign policy outlook. Unlike works on India’s
security policy which have built from and contributed to
broader academic debates, studies on India’s foreign policy
have failed to directly engage with concepts and theories
developed by the sub-discipline of Foreign Policy Analysis
(FPA). Why have these concepts and approaches not been
consistently applied to the Indian context? There are various
reasons for this, ranging from these disciplines’ excessive reliance on Western case studies, or the lack of interest in mainstream International Relations scholarship by South Asianists
(in contrast to disciplines such as economics, political theory,
and developmental studies, all of which have benefited from
the Indian experience). This special issue is a step towards
bridging this gap and to encourage a greater dialogue
between FPA and the systematic study of Indian foreign policy.
Through the careful analysis of specific case studies, the different papers offer a conceptually grounded and empirically
innovative reading of India’s foreign policy across time, space,
and themes.
Taylor and Francis
Blarel, Nicolas
Paliwal, Avinash
2020-01-27
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Blarel, Nicolas and Paliwal, Avinash, eds. (2020) Opening the Black Box - The Making of India's Foreign Policy. London: Taylor and Francis. (India Review. Vol. 18, no. 5)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14736489.2019.1703359
10.1080/14736489.2019.1703359
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Dadaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai: Rewriting Consent and Conjugal Relations in Colonial India
Sharma, Kanika
Lammasniemi, Laura
Sarkar, Tanika
Through an examination of the late nineteenth century case of Dadaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai this article traces the history of the doctrine of restitution of conjugal rights (“RCR”) in Hindu law in colonial India. It highlights the importance of caste in situating the life and trials of Rukhmabai in their wider social, colonial, and legal contexts. Following the methodology of the global feminist judgements projects, the paper also offers a re-written judgement for Rukhmabai’s case located in 1886. This new judgement, while bound by the legal rules of the time, puts forward an alternative application of the doctrine of RCR, one that treats the issue of consent as central to such suits. It argues that the legal transplant of RCR ought not to have been applied to Hindu marriages which are often entered into in childhood and makes a case for taking into account female consent to both marriage and to conjugal relations.
Taylor and Francis
2021-08-12
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Sharma, Kanika, Lammasniemi, Laura and Sarkar, Tanika (2021) 'Dadaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai: Rewriting Consent and Conjugal Relations in Colonial India.' Indian Law Review, 5 (3). pp. 265-287.
10.1080/24730580.2021.1962083
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The Criminal Law Reforms Committee and The Imagination of Law Reform
Suresh, Mayur
Live Law
2020-10-01
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Suresh, Mayur (2020) The Criminal Law Reforms Committee and The Imagination of Law Reform. Live Law. Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyK89KSWa-Y <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyK89KSWa-Y>.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyK89KSWa-Y
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Making Sense with Mayur Suresh: An ethnographic immersion in a courtroom in New Delhi
Suresh, Mayur
Batabyal, Somnath
SOAS University of London
2022-03-08
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Suresh, Mayur and Batabyal, Somnath (2022) Making Sense with Mayur Suresh: An ethnographic immersion in a courtroom in New Delhi. SOAS University of London. [Audio]
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/soas-podcasts/
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Incorporating People's Will in Structures of Political Governance
Venkat, Vidya
2022-04-05
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Venkat, Vidya (2022) Incorporating People's Will in Structures of Political Governance. In: 'India at 75': Unpacking the idea of the people, April 5-6, 2022, Online - Zoom. (Unpublished)
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Colonial courts, judicial iconography and the Indian semiotic register
Sharma, Kanika
In From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, Iconography, Memories, and Performances of Law in India's High Courts, Rahela Khorakiwala brings together germinal works on the uses of architecture and iconology in and by law with thick descriptions and a close study of the semiotics and symbolisms of the three colonial High Courts (HCs) in Bombay (now Mumbai), Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Madras (now Chennai). This visual analysis of the court site is integral to understanding how the law operates and how the state wishes the public to perceive the law. Khorakiwala weaves through her engaging examination of the legal aesthetics of the courts an examination of them as sites of memory and memorialization and the role that they play in preserving colonial history in a post-colonial state. She helps us understand how these colonial HCs act as sites of contestation upon which newer anti-colonial and postcolonial memories and ideals can be layered to reflect the complex history of the site. However, the book is most interesting when Khorakiwala attempts to scrutinise the ways in which legal symbolism drawn from the local semiotic register is overlaid over Western and colonial legal iconology that dominate the Indian courts. While doing so she gently leads us to the question that pervades the book but remains ultimately unanswered – Is there a unique Indian judicial iconography that can be recognized and deciphered?
Taylor and Francis
2022-06-24
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Sharma, Kanika (2022) 'Colonial courts, judicial iconography and the Indian semiotic register.' Law and Humanities, 16 (2). pp. 331-336.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17521483.2022.2080943
10.1080/17521483.2022.2080943
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Autocratic legalism in India: A roundtable
Acevedo, Deepa Das
Bhat, Mohsin Alam
de Sa e Silva, Fabio Costa Morais
John, Rebecca
Narrain, Arvind
Scheppele, Kim
Singh, Bachittar
Suresh, Mayur
At a moment when democracy seems to be experiencing an unprecedented level of crisis worldwide, this roundtable focuses on one country, India, to ask what we can learn from its ongoing challenges. The participants take as their starting point Scheppele’s idea of ‘autocratic legalism’, in which constitutional democracies are ‘hijacked by … legally clever autocrats’ who turn democratic institutions and values against themselves. Does autocratic legalism capture developments in India, particularly since 2014? Does the concept help identify weaknesses or untapped potential in Indian democracy? Or does the crisis of India’s democracy reflect different patterns from the autocratic legalism emerging in other parts of the world? Participants consider these and other questions during a conversation that bridges disciplines, geography, and the academy–legal profession divide.
Springer Nature
2022-07-02
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Acevedo, Deepa Das, Bhat, Mohsin Alam, de Sa e Silva, Fabio Costa Morais, John, Rebecca, Narrain, Arvind, Scheppele, Kim, Singh, Bachittar and Suresh, Mayur (2022) 'Autocratic legalism in India: A roundtable.' Jindal Global Law Review, 13 (1). pp. 117-140.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41020-022-00171-y
10.1007/s41020-022-00171-y
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A pair of earrings and the gift of intergenerational feminism
Kashyap, Megha
H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences
2022-06-10
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Kashyap, Megha (2022) A pair of earrings and the gift of intergenerational feminism. Convivial Thinking [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]
https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2022/07/09/the-gift-of-intergenerational-feminism/
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Incorporating people's will in governance
Venkat, Vidya
In this essay, I use archival research to demonstrate how the framing of the Right To Information Act, 2005 was an expression of "people's will". The essay traces the formative phase of the right to information movement in Rajasthan and New Delhi.
Malvika Singh
2022-08
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Venkat, Vidya (2022) 'Incorporating people's will in governance.' Seminar: The Monthly Symposium, 756. pp. 29-34.
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Elective Affinities: Iran, India and China’s Responses to the Ukraine War
Waghmar, Burzine
2022-07-05
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Waghmar, Burzine (2022) Elective Affinities: Iran, India and China’s Responses to the Ukraine War. RUSI Commentary [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/elective-affinities-iran-india-and-chinas-responses-ukraine-war
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Re: Staging the Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar (1858)
Sharma, Kanika
Chaudhari, Zuleikha
D History General and Old World
K Law
2022-12
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Sharma, Kanika and Chaudhari, Zuleikha (2022) Re: Staging the Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar (1858). Take on Art [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]
https://takeonartmagazine.com/magazine/memory/
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Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts
Suresh, Mayur
An ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, India, this book explores what modes of life are made possible in the everyday experience of the courtroom. Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes through which courtrooms are made habitable. Where India’s terror trials have come to be understood by way of the expansion of the security state and displays of Hindu nationalism, Suresh elaborates how they are experienced by defendants in a quite different way, through a minute engagement with legal technicalities. Amidst the grinding terror trials—which are replete with stories of torture, illegal detention and fabricated charges—defendants school themselves in legal procedures, became adept petition writers, build friendships with police officials, cultivate cautious faith in the courts and express a deep sense of betrayal when this trust is belied. Though seemingly mundane, legal technicalities are fraught and highly contested, and acquire urgent ethical qualities in the life of a trial: the file becomes a space in which the world can be made or unmade, the petition a way of imagining a future, and investigative and courtroom procedures enable the unexpected formation of close relationships between police and terror-accused. In attending to the ways in which legal technicalities are made to work in everyday interactions among lawyers, judges, accused terrorists, and police, Suresh shows how human expressiveness, creativity and vulnerability emerge through the law.
Fordham University Press
2023-01-17
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Suresh, Mayur (2023) Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts. New York: Fordham University Press. (Thinking from Elsewhere)
10.1515/9781531501792
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Authoritarianism in Indian state, law and society
Suresh, Mayur
Deepa, Das Acevedo
Mohsin, Alam Bhat
While India possesses features conventionally associated with liberal democracies, it has lately been understood to suffer from “democratic backsliding”. Commentators have used descriptions like “authoritarianism”, “electoral autocracy”, “ethnic democracy” and “totalitarianism” to understand the current moment in Indian history. The framework of “autocratic legalism” illuminates the dynamics of centralization of power but there are also elements in the Indian experience that complicate this framework and reflect potentially unique features of the country’s democratic decline. These features can be attributed to the political rise and entrenchment of the Hindu nationalist ideology, profoundly facilitated by the electoral dominance of the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi since 2014. This article argues that India’s spiral towards authoritarianism is also characterized by a range of disturbing and insidious developments beyond the centralization of state power, which are more concerned with majoritarian power seeping into everyday legality. The article considers three examples of such majoritarianism in everyday legality: the use of “anti-terror” laws against minorities and political opponents, policies driving towards the dispossession of minority citizenship, and the mobilization of the mob in ways that blur the lines separating the state from Hindu nationalist actors. These examples demonstrate how in India, autocratic forces are not merely interested in undermining (meaningful) democracy—all in the name of democracy. Instead, autocracy flourishes as a diverse and relatively disaggregated set of actors undermine democracy in the name of an ostensibly truer, Hindu, Indian nationhood.
Nomos
2022-12
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Suresh, Mayur, Deepa, Das Acevedo and Mohsin, Alam Bhat (2022) 'Authoritarianism in Indian state, law and society.' Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, 55 (4). pp. 459-477.
10.5771/0506-7286-2022-4-459
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NL Interview: Author Mayur Suresh on UAPA trials and their link with Hindutva
Suresh, Mayur
Newslaundry
2023-04-03
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/39272/1/nl-interview-author-mayur-suresh-on-uapa-trials-and-their-link-with-hindutva
Suresh, Mayur (2023) NL Interview: Author Mayur Suresh on UAPA trials and their link with Hindutva. Newslaundry. Available from https://www.newslaundry.com/2023/04/03/nl-intervie... <https://www.newslaundry.com/2023/04/03/nl-interview-author-mayur-suresh-on-uapa-trials-and-their-link-with-hindutva>.
https://www.newslaundry.com/2023/04/03/nl-interview-author-mayur-suresh-on-uapa-trials-and-their-link-with-hindutva
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2023-07-25T16:23:13Z
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Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts. Dr. Mayur Suresh in conversation with Neetika Vishwanath
Suresh, Mayur
In this podcast, Project 39A's Director (Sentencing) Neetika Vishwanath speaks to Dr. Mayur Suresh (Senior Lecturer, SOAS University of London) on his recently published book 'Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts'. The book is an ethnographic study of Delhi's Tis Hazari court over 14 months during which Dr. Suresh followed 18 terrorism trials. In this conversation, Dr. Suresh reflects on the relevance of ethnography as a method of legal research and the value of studying everyday life in trial courts. Looking beyond the exceptionalism framework in academia that is often used to describe terrorism laws and trials, ethnography allowed Dr. Suresh to capture ways in which terror accused use legal procedures and technicalities to engage with the law.
Project 39A
2023-05-12
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Suresh, Mayur (2023) Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts. Dr. Mayur Suresh in conversation with Neetika Vishwanath. Project 39A. [Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_32-m32xRA
oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:39975
2024-02-09T15:36:43Z
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How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba
Axelby, Richard
This article uses decisions about voting, including the decision not to vote, as a prism to consider what it means to be Gaddi in 21st-century Himachal Pradesh (H.P.). While the results of polls can tell us how people voted, they say little about the background to electoral decision-making—the reasoning by which interests, identities, and ideologies are compressed into the simple choice between candidates. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in rural Chamba district, the article tracks participation in elections for the H.P. State Legislative Assembly and a local Panchayat from 2000 to 2022. The paper concludes by presenting electoral contests as arenas in which the performance of citizenship is entangled with shifting forms of identity combining the social, administrative, and political.
Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, USA
2023-08-23
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Axelby, Richard (2023) 'How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba.' Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 42 (2). pp. 21-35.
http://journals.ed.ac.uk/himalaya/article/view/7819
10.2218/himalaya.2023.7819
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2023-10-26T09:44:41Z
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New Books Network in South Asian Studies: Mayur Suresh, "Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts."
Suresh, Mayur
Singh, Shatakshi
New Books Network
2023-07-30
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Suresh, Mayur and Singh, Shatakshi (2023) New Books Network in South Asian Studies: Mayur Suresh, "Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts.". New Books Network. [Audio]
https://newbooksnetwork.com/terror-trials