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Of Captivity and Resistance
Of Captivity and Resistance offers a historical and political study of women's experiences of dissent and detention in postcolonial India. Primarily focusing on the Naxalite movement (1967–75) and on the pan-Indian period of Emergency (1975–77), the study traces women's political participation in revolutionary movements and in dissident politics, and attends to their experiences of torture and incarceration. Simultaneously, by drawing on the varied histories of women's incarceration before and after the 'long seventies', the book provides an expanded terrain for evaluating the gendered dimensions of radical politics and of testimonial literature on carcerality, state violence and impunity. The analysis focuses on women's transformation from marginal political participants to resistant detainees. By studying the linkages between radical politics, captivity and resistance, the book offers a widened account of women's political participation, contributes to contemporary debates on political incarceration and strengthens the resistant history of rights and of dissenting literature in India and in the Global South.
Populism and Its Limits
Populism and Its Limits is a response to the evaluative and celebratory approaches to populism in social sciences and humanities. It seeks to study the phenomenon of populism, thoroughly consider its limits and, if possible, proposes ways out to other kinds of commitment in life, living and politics. It aims to formulate responses that take on the spurious and non-dialectical dissociation between thought and action, intellect and emotion, the people and the elite.
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Tapestry of Memory
In this volume, contributors present narratives and explore the way they influence the perception of the past. While acknowledging the debate about the validity of qualitative research based on narratives, this volume aims to illuminate how truth and evidence form part of a much wider debate on the representation of history.The volume includes the work of historians but the interdisciplinary nature of the contributions shows that the validity debate also applies to the broader fields of cultural studies, sociology, and other social sciences. The distinction between memory and testimony is a crucial theme. Memory, though selective, is the basis of testimony. Testimony provides an audience wit...
Feminist Frames
This book revisits approaches to South Asian feminist politics through the lens of shared historical memories and their social spatialisation. The author looks at borderlands, socialist visions of internationalism, cultures of travel, theatre history, artist-activist performances, and connected histories of discrete geo-political formations. Locating the book’s spatial context in Bengal—for its long tradition of militant movements and its historical cross-border connections—Sinha Roy attempts to release the spatial into South Asian feminism and historicise the space and place of Bengal in a dynamic relationship with time. She argues that in addition to plotting a temporally progressive chronological story of gender, violence and love in the inert space of Bengal (bracketed by national and international borders), the practices of spatialisation play an active role as temporal emplotment, in organising and prioritising the major place-based arguments.
