Volume 28, Issue 5, October-December 2023
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Caste and Untouchability in Jawaharlal Nehru’s Literary Masterpieces
Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Ahead of Print.
As one of the major pillars of Indian social structure, the caste system distinguishes Indian culture from all other cultures of the world. Though the Constitution of India assures equality of status and opportunity for all citizens and various academic and political discourses also appealed for the complete eradication of the caste system, it has not been eradicated even after five decades of democracy. In this context, it becomes really interesting to re-examine the views on caste as reflected in Jawaharlal Nehru’s prose writings. Nehru’s major prose works unquestionably delineate his concern for caste. Focusing mainly on An Autobiography and the Discovery of India, this article seeks to examine the different representations of caste in his prose works and will also try to locate the gaps and the shifts underlying his views on caste.
As one of the major pillars of Indian social structure, the caste system distinguishes Indian culture from all other cultures of the world. Though the Constitution of India assures equality of status and opportunity for all citizens and various academic and political discourses also appealed for the complete eradication of the caste system, it has not been eradicated even after five decades of democracy. In this context, it becomes really interesting to re-examine the views on caste as reflected in Jawaharlal Nehru’s prose writings. Nehru’s major prose works unquestionably delineate his concern for caste. Focusing mainly on An Autobiography and the Discovery of India, this article seeks to examine the different representations of caste in his prose works and will also try to locate the gaps and the shifts underlying his views on caste.
Accidental Border: Kinma Islands and the Making of Taiwan
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Decolonization as a desiring machine: reinventing postcolonial appropriation
Auratic Geographies: Buffers, Backyards, Entanglements
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Post/Colonial Geography, Post/Cold War Complication: Okinawa, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as a Liminal Island Chain
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Book review: Govardhan Wankhede, My Life: The Journey of a Dalit Sociologist
Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Ahead of Print.
Govardhan Wankhede, My Life: The Journey of a Dalit Sociologist. Aakar Books India Publication, 2020, 191 pp., ₹595 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-9350026854.
Govardhan Wankhede, My Life: The Journey of a Dalit Sociologist. Aakar Books India Publication, 2020, 191 pp., ₹595 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-9350026854.
Book review: Into an Unborn Age: A Review of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik, The Untouchable & Other Poems
Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Ahead of Print.
Into an Unborn Age: A Review of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik, The Untouchable & Other Poems. Trans. by Jaydeep Sarangi and Anurima Chanda. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2020, pp. 91, ₹295 (paperback). ISBN: 978-93-90155-96-5.
Into an Unborn Age: A Review of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik, The Untouchable & Other Poems. Trans. by Jaydeep Sarangi and Anurima Chanda. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2020, pp. 91, ₹295 (paperback). ISBN: 978-93-90155-96-5.
A Buffer against Whom? Rethinking the Qing-Chosŏn Border Region
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Buffering State-making: Geopolitics in the Sudd Marshlands of South Sudan
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