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Papers by Asha sarangi
The Forum of Federations, the global network on federalism and multilevel governance, supports be... more The Forum of Federations, the global network on federalism and multilevel governance, supports better governance through learning among practitioners and experts. Active on six continents, it runs programs in over 20 countries including established federations, as well as countries transitioning to devolved and decentralized governance options. The Forum publishes a range of information and educational materials. It is supported by the following partner countries: Australia,
The linguistic pluralism with its democratic enunciation has remained internal to the political p... more The linguistic pluralism with its democratic enunciation has remained internal to the political processes of state formation in independent India. Konkani language acquires a distinctive status in debates on language-based political autonomy movements in twentieth-century India. As an inter-state, interregional language with scriptal plurality, it has a wider expanse with multilingual and multicultural historical ancestry and lineage. The Konkani controversy shows the magnitude of an interface between languages, scripts, regions and states having axial effects on the social, cultural and political survival and sustainability of languages in a multilingual country. The case of Konkani shows that language is not simply a means of communication but a marker of ethnic-regional identities and boundaries drawn around their linguistic differentiations. The question of Konkani language and script controversy is as much about the processes of linguistic democratization and mobilization. Konkani question is also one related to the linguistic-cultural right, linguistic equality, identity and democratic equity amidst linguistic plurality and its complex registers of identity formation and resistance. The conflict and consensus over Konkani language reveal dense and complex set of interlinkages between caste, class, community, religion, language and state and their uneasy alliances at various points of time in the making of the nation-state project of post-independence India.
Language alone can no longer be the basis for division of states. Issues such as size, governance... more Language alone can no longer be the basis for division of states. Issues such as size, governance, economic viability and recognition of new identities are equally important to consider the demands for reorganisation of states. Moreover, the social, economic and ...
Religion, Language, Politics, 2015
Studies in History, 2009
... 206 / ASHA SARANGI ... According to Colon, '(T)he Saraswat Brahmans of Bombay and Ma... more ... 206 / ASHA SARANGI ... According to Colon, '(T)he Saraswat Brahmans of Bombay and Madras Presidency were included in the category of “Others” since their mother tongue “Konkani” was not yet recognized in the census reports'.22 Thus the category of language at times ...
Economic and Political Weekly, 2006
Ambedkar consistently argued that the proposed linguistic states would become socially more homog... more Ambedkar consistently argued that the proposed linguistic states would become socially more homogeneous and politically democratic in due course of time. His proposals about the formation of linguistic states emanated from his democratic impulse to accord political ...
Recherche, 2010
List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, Publisher's Acknowledgements, Introductio... more List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, Publisher's Acknowledgements, Introduction: Language and Politics in India (Asha Sarangi),. Part I: Language, History, and Nation . 1.. . Language and the Constitution: The Half-Hearted Compromise (Granville Austin),. ...
Economic and Political Weekly, 2004
Pradesh Congress chief minister Digvijay Singh campaigned against cow-slaughter; Kerala' sch... more Pradesh Congress chief minister Digvijay Singh campaigned against cow-slaughter; Kerala' schief minister Antony made state-ments attacking minorities; the Maharashtra chief minister Shindejoined the Shiv Sena-BJP camp in launching an offensive against the historian ...
Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph were world renowned political scientists and iconic academic couple who... more Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph were world renowned political scientists and iconic academic couple who devoted six decades of their lives to teaching and researching India and South Asia. The liberal-centrist Rudolphian framework is clearly evident in their numerous works. Their writings show the innovativeness and interpretative richness of methodological pluralism questioning the hegemony of western theories and categories. The Geertzian notion of "culture bound" contextualism was central to their ideas on concept formation and "situated knowledge" paradigm. The phrases like "situated knowledge," "self as other," "imperialism of categories," "modernity of tradition", "living with difference," and "post-modern Gandhi" provided newer conceptual tools and vocabularies in their writings. Writing within the broader framework of liberal-centrism, they continued to counter generalizations and deepen our understanding about the puzzle of Indian democracy and nature of the Indian state.
Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph were globally acclaimed scholars of India at the University of Chicago ... more Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph were globally acclaimed scholars of India at the University of Chicago where they spent nearly four decades of their lives teaching and researching on India and South Asia. Their numerous works done in this intellectual partnership of more than six decades produced paradigmatic shift both methodologically and thematically in the study of Indian society and politics, more specifically about the nature of Indian state and its democratic institutionalism. Their critical concern for India about its experiments with democratic institutions and modernity of tradition was in consonance with their convictions about the durability of Indian social ethos and structures of social and political life. They belonged to the first generation of 'area specialists' who returned to their subjects of inquiry regularly with a critical gaze and newer perspectives over the years. For them, the field of study became an intellectual habitus that they nurtured with great discipline, care, conscience and craft. Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph can ideally be described as a contrapuntal scholarly couple, not just in life that they lived together but also in the manner they departed from this world in their last journey together. In just about 3 weeks after Susanne passed away on 23 December 2015, Lloyd too decided to join her on 16 January 2016. The intense partnership that they had, it seemed somehow appropriate and natural that Lloyd should not have been left behind for long. This kind of companionship is indeed rare! They lived a gloriously happy life full of excitement and joy while working, raising their children, writing, teaching, travelling, hiking, reading and lecturing together. The complementarity and understanding that they shared with each other characterized their unique lifelong partnership symbolized in popularly addressing them as the Rudolphs. As self-reflexive social scientists, and in particular political scientists, at the University of Chicago where they taught for 34 years, they were erudite scholars, prolific writers and extraordinary intellectuals in the US academia where they shaped and built institutions focusing on the study of India and South Asia. Their numerous works done in this intellectual partnership of more than six decades produced paradigmatic shift both methodologically and thematically in the study of Indian society and politics, more specifically about the nature of Indian state and its democratic
The Forum of Federations, the global network on federalism and multilevel governance, supports be... more The Forum of Federations, the global network on federalism and multilevel governance, supports better governance through learning among practitioners and experts. Active on six continents, it runs programs in over 20 countries including established federations, as well as countries transitioning to devolved and decentralized governance options. The Forum publishes a range of information and educational materials. It is supported by the following partner countries: Australia,
The linguistic pluralism with its democratic enunciation has remained internal to the political p... more The linguistic pluralism with its democratic enunciation has remained internal to the political processes of state formation in independent India. Konkani language acquires a distinctive status in debates on language-based political autonomy movements in twentieth-century India. As an inter-state, interregional language with scriptal plurality, it has a wider expanse with multilingual and multicultural historical ancestry and lineage. The Konkani controversy shows the magnitude of an interface between languages, scripts, regions and states having axial effects on the social, cultural and political survival and sustainability of languages in a multilingual country. The case of Konkani shows that language is not simply a means of communication but a marker of ethnic-regional identities and boundaries drawn around their linguistic differentiations. The question of Konkani language and script controversy is as much about the processes of linguistic democratization and mobilization. Konkani question is also one related to the linguistic-cultural right, linguistic equality, identity and democratic equity amidst linguistic plurality and its complex registers of identity formation and resistance. The conflict and consensus over Konkani language reveal dense and complex set of interlinkages between caste, class, community, religion, language and state and their uneasy alliances at various points of time in the making of the nation-state project of post-independence India.
Language alone can no longer be the basis for division of states. Issues such as size, governance... more Language alone can no longer be the basis for division of states. Issues such as size, governance, economic viability and recognition of new identities are equally important to consider the demands for reorganisation of states. Moreover, the social, economic and ...
Religion, Language, Politics, 2015
Studies in History, 2009
... 206 / ASHA SARANGI ... According to Colon, '(T)he Saraswat Brahmans of Bombay and Ma... more ... 206 / ASHA SARANGI ... According to Colon, '(T)he Saraswat Brahmans of Bombay and Madras Presidency were included in the category of “Others” since their mother tongue “Konkani” was not yet recognized in the census reports'.22 Thus the category of language at times ...
Economic and Political Weekly, 2006
Ambedkar consistently argued that the proposed linguistic states would become socially more homog... more Ambedkar consistently argued that the proposed linguistic states would become socially more homogeneous and politically democratic in due course of time. His proposals about the formation of linguistic states emanated from his democratic impulse to accord political ...
Recherche, 2010
List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, Publisher's Acknowledgements, Introductio... more List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, Publisher's Acknowledgements, Introduction: Language and Politics in India (Asha Sarangi),. Part I: Language, History, and Nation . 1.. . Language and the Constitution: The Half-Hearted Compromise (Granville Austin),. ...
Economic and Political Weekly, 2004
Pradesh Congress chief minister Digvijay Singh campaigned against cow-slaughter; Kerala' sch... more Pradesh Congress chief minister Digvijay Singh campaigned against cow-slaughter; Kerala' schief minister Antony made state-ments attacking minorities; the Maharashtra chief minister Shindejoined the Shiv Sena-BJP camp in launching an offensive against the historian ...
Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph were world renowned political scientists and iconic academic couple who... more Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph were world renowned political scientists and iconic academic couple who devoted six decades of their lives to teaching and researching India and South Asia. The liberal-centrist Rudolphian framework is clearly evident in their numerous works. Their writings show the innovativeness and interpretative richness of methodological pluralism questioning the hegemony of western theories and categories. The Geertzian notion of "culture bound" contextualism was central to their ideas on concept formation and "situated knowledge" paradigm. The phrases like "situated knowledge," "self as other," "imperialism of categories," "modernity of tradition", "living with difference," and "post-modern Gandhi" provided newer conceptual tools and vocabularies in their writings. Writing within the broader framework of liberal-centrism, they continued to counter generalizations and deepen our understanding about the puzzle of Indian democracy and nature of the Indian state.
Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph were globally acclaimed scholars of India at the University of Chicago ... more Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph were globally acclaimed scholars of India at the University of Chicago where they spent nearly four decades of their lives teaching and researching on India and South Asia. Their numerous works done in this intellectual partnership of more than six decades produced paradigmatic shift both methodologically and thematically in the study of Indian society and politics, more specifically about the nature of Indian state and its democratic institutionalism. Their critical concern for India about its experiments with democratic institutions and modernity of tradition was in consonance with their convictions about the durability of Indian social ethos and structures of social and political life. They belonged to the first generation of 'area specialists' who returned to their subjects of inquiry regularly with a critical gaze and newer perspectives over the years. For them, the field of study became an intellectual habitus that they nurtured with great discipline, care, conscience and craft. Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph can ideally be described as a contrapuntal scholarly couple, not just in life that they lived together but also in the manner they departed from this world in their last journey together. In just about 3 weeks after Susanne passed away on 23 December 2015, Lloyd too decided to join her on 16 January 2016. The intense partnership that they had, it seemed somehow appropriate and natural that Lloyd should not have been left behind for long. This kind of companionship is indeed rare! They lived a gloriously happy life full of excitement and joy while working, raising their children, writing, teaching, travelling, hiking, reading and lecturing together. The complementarity and understanding that they shared with each other characterized their unique lifelong partnership symbolized in popularly addressing them as the Rudolphs. As self-reflexive social scientists, and in particular political scientists, at the University of Chicago where they taught for 34 years, they were erudite scholars, prolific writers and extraordinary intellectuals in the US academia where they shaped and built institutions focusing on the study of India and South Asia. Their numerous works done in this intellectual partnership of more than six decades produced paradigmatic shift both methodologically and thematically in the study of Indian society and politics, more specifically about the nature of Indian state and its democratic