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World Humanities Report, 2023
This article traces the history of the women's movement and feminism in India along with its inte... more This article traces the history of the women's movement and feminism in India along with its intersection and engagement with other axes of oppression such as caste, religion and sexuality. It traces the movement of humanities categories between the effervescent sites of activism and academic endeavour. Broadly, the article traces the development of feminism around sexual violence, other axes of oppression and finally 'intersectionality'.
This article is part of The World Humanities Report. All publications under the WHR are free to access here under Creative Commons Licensing: https://worldhumanitiesreport.org/research/
The World Humanities Report is a project of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), in collaboration with the International Council for Philosophy.
Women's Link, 2018
Laws so enacted, are often interpreted in a variety of ways that are not evident until courts are... more Laws so enacted, are often interpreted in a variety of ways that are not evident until courts are faced with cases which push them to confront situations in real life, and which sometimes exceed the legislative imagination. However, the laws themselves still form the basis, or at least an important element that structures how this interpretation can take place.
Routledge India eBooks, Nov 2, 2023
Artwork responding to the pandemic
Explorations, 2021
This paper examines two judgements which involve inter-religious marriages and conversion. Togeth... more This paper examines two judgements which involve inter-religious marriages and conversion. Together they throw light on the ways in which religious personal law deals with the messiness of overlapping and intersecting identities. These cases have been chosen as 'trouble cases' in an attempt to study discretely imagined religious communities and the slippages between them when they are encountered by law. The cases demonstrate the way complex marital dispute is mapped on to categories such as 'conversion' within the judicial register. These categories are often used to enforce discrete notions of community and to subvert the individual's access to marital choice when it transcends the bounds of community. They also demonstrate the way 'monogamy' as a category becomes intertwined with 'conversion' and invoked in ways that further the othering of Muslims, marking them out as traditional as against the assumed secularity of Hindu subjects.
Economic and Political Weekly, 2015
This paper explores the voice of the urban middle-class youth in the current struggle against pat... more This paper explores the voice of the urban middle-class youth in the current struggle against patriarchy, focusing on Hyderabad. Within this broad topic, it focuses on the group ‘Hyderabad for Feminism’, and the kinds of questions, reactions and discussions that occur on its Facebook page.
The authors would like to thank Sundar Sarukkai and N Purendra Prasad for their comments on an ea... more The authors would like to thank Sundar Sarukkai and N Purendra Prasad for their comments on an earlier draft, which helped the authors refi ne their ideas, and for their continuous encouragement. The authors also thank the anonymous reviewer for their insightful suggestions, which helped them streamline the arguments. The position of the authors' names is in alphabetical order and does not represent any difference in their contribution to the study.
Economic and Political Weekly, 2019
What is the position of research scholars in the knowledge food chain? Are they merely consumers ... more What is the position of research scholars in the knowledge food chain? Are they merely consumers of knowledge or can they also produce them? This paper takes as springboard the UGC Regulations 2009 and 2016, which enforced two important recommendations. First, mandatory coursework on research methods and theory for MPhil and PhD programmes, and second, publication of at least one research paper in a peer-reviewed journal, to be eligible to submit a doctoral thesis. By analysing these regulations through the lens of peer research scholars, this study attempts to explain the complexity of the existing relation within academic institutions vis-a-vis professional journals in the ongoing knowledge production.
This paper explores the voice of the urban middle-class youth in the current struggle against pat... more This paper explores the voice of the urban middle-class
youth in the current struggle against patriarchy, focusing
on Hyderabad. Within this broad topic, it focuses on
the group ‘Hyderabad for Feminism’, and the kinds of
questions, reactions and discussions that occur on its
Facebook page.
World Humanities Report, 2023
This article traces the history of the women's movement and feminism in India along with its inte... more This article traces the history of the women's movement and feminism in India along with its intersection and engagement with other axes of oppression such as caste, religion and sexuality. It traces the movement of humanities categories between the effervescent sites of activism and academic endeavour. Broadly, the article traces the development of feminism around sexual violence, other axes of oppression and finally 'intersectionality'.
This article is part of The World Humanities Report. All publications under the WHR are free to access here under Creative Commons Licensing: https://worldhumanitiesreport.org/research/
The World Humanities Report is a project of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), in collaboration with the International Council for Philosophy.
Women's Link, 2018
Laws so enacted, are often interpreted in a variety of ways that are not evident until courts are... more Laws so enacted, are often interpreted in a variety of ways that are not evident until courts are faced with cases which push them to confront situations in real life, and which sometimes exceed the legislative imagination. However, the laws themselves still form the basis, or at least an important element that structures how this interpretation can take place.
Routledge India eBooks, Nov 2, 2023
Artwork responding to the pandemic
Explorations, 2021
This paper examines two judgements which involve inter-religious marriages and conversion. Togeth... more This paper examines two judgements which involve inter-religious marriages and conversion. Together they throw light on the ways in which religious personal law deals with the messiness of overlapping and intersecting identities. These cases have been chosen as 'trouble cases' in an attempt to study discretely imagined religious communities and the slippages between them when they are encountered by law. The cases demonstrate the way complex marital dispute is mapped on to categories such as 'conversion' within the judicial register. These categories are often used to enforce discrete notions of community and to subvert the individual's access to marital choice when it transcends the bounds of community. They also demonstrate the way 'monogamy' as a category becomes intertwined with 'conversion' and invoked in ways that further the othering of Muslims, marking them out as traditional as against the assumed secularity of Hindu subjects.
Economic and Political Weekly, 2015
This paper explores the voice of the urban middle-class youth in the current struggle against pat... more This paper explores the voice of the urban middle-class youth in the current struggle against patriarchy, focusing on Hyderabad. Within this broad topic, it focuses on the group ‘Hyderabad for Feminism’, and the kinds of questions, reactions and discussions that occur on its Facebook page.
The authors would like to thank Sundar Sarukkai and N Purendra Prasad for their comments on an ea... more The authors would like to thank Sundar Sarukkai and N Purendra Prasad for their comments on an earlier draft, which helped the authors refi ne their ideas, and for their continuous encouragement. The authors also thank the anonymous reviewer for their insightful suggestions, which helped them streamline the arguments. The position of the authors' names is in alphabetical order and does not represent any difference in their contribution to the study.
Economic and Political Weekly, 2019
What is the position of research scholars in the knowledge food chain? Are they merely consumers ... more What is the position of research scholars in the knowledge food chain? Are they merely consumers of knowledge or can they also produce them? This paper takes as springboard the UGC Regulations 2009 and 2016, which enforced two important recommendations. First, mandatory coursework on research methods and theory for MPhil and PhD programmes, and second, publication of at least one research paper in a peer-reviewed journal, to be eligible to submit a doctoral thesis. By analysing these regulations through the lens of peer research scholars, this study attempts to explain the complexity of the existing relation within academic institutions vis-a-vis professional journals in the ongoing knowledge production.
This paper explores the voice of the urban middle-class youth in the current struggle against pat... more This paper explores the voice of the urban middle-class
youth in the current struggle against patriarchy, focusing
on Hyderabad. Within this broad topic, it focuses on
the group ‘Hyderabad for Feminism’, and the kinds of
questions, reactions and discussions that occur on its
Facebook page.