WHAT IS ETHNOGRAPHY Ethnography is an extremely popular method of research used in sociological analysis. In this series, we intend to familiarize our audience with the nitty-gritty of conducting...

The Muslim elite disown him for talking caste and the Hindu right-wing abuses him for his uncompromising stance on secularism, writes Abhay Kumar

As my sister has entered her PhD 3rd year, she is often asked, ‘how many research papers have you published till now?’ This question comes from people associated in different capacities within the...

A space Sociologists share, with a series of posts aimed at providing our readers with the opportunity to learn the possibilities of Doing Sociology.

‘Research is probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world’ (p.1). Linda Tuhiwai Smith, a leading decolonization theorist, centre-stages the power relations within which research on...

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Sanjeev Routray’s book The Right To Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi published by Stanford University Press in 2022 documents the citizenship projects of the poor...

Introduction Since its inception in 2002, Delhi Metro has rapidly expanded and developed throughout the national capital region and its peripheries. Today, more than two decades after its beginning,...

After Rohith Vemula’s suicide, Indian academia received enormous attention from scholars and policymakers, as a space not secluded but implicated in the social inequalities that define India. N...

‘Space’ is a term that has been variously understood throughout history by physicists, mathematicians, and social scientists. It has been seen as a given, an objective and concrete entity. It has...

Ethnographers before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen (published by Berghahn Books in 2022) presents both, an...

A stalwart instrumental in establishing the discipline of Sociology in India, Uberoi was born in Lahore in 1934 and studied at the University College, London, and University of Manchester, returning...

One of the ways in which some scholars have attempted to map the evolution of feminist literature within sociology is the ‘stages approach’ which was thought to be useful for organizing the various...

A SessionOnHow to Avoid Rejection: Advice on Submitting Articles to Academic JournalsSrila Roy is a Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwaters...

To appreciate why JPS and his brand of indigenous knowledge will be missed we only have to look at what passes in the name of indigeneity today

“Apes, too, have organs that can grasp, but they do not have hands.” Martin Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? “The Hindu would prefer to be inhuman rather than touch an untouchable.” Bhimrao...

Sujata Patel has been the 2021 Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor, at Umea University, Sweden; Distinguished Professor, at Savitribai Phule Pune Universit...

Ravi Nandan’s Dead in Benaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling, published by Oxford University Press in 2022, is a compelling ethnographical treatise, comprising five pit stops as chapters of...

Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006) is a remarkable book that delves into the mechanics of the world that we inhabit and also gives us room to reflect on dealing...

Twentieth-century India, and in this specific context Calcutta, experienced and participated in some of the most crucial political and economic transformations that academia and even those outside...

“Kisi gurr banane wali se shadi karlo, mazdoori bhi nahi dena padega aur karz bhi nahi lena padega”, says Banerjee babu when Moti, the acclaimed “rasiya” of Sultanganj asks him for some debt. The...

There are some books we read for pleasure. Some, we read to advance our knowledge of the world, others to feel seen and heard, and a few, to motivate us, to make us want to do things- like changing...

The very nature of sociological imagination is that it unsettles our everyday beliefs and practices. Sociological imagination questions our common sense (Madan, 2019), and its unexamined and uncons...

Rahul Ranjan’s book The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India (Cambridge University Press, 2023) examines the representation of Birsa Munda’s political life through the role of...

Footloose and Bondage Labour and Agrarian Issues: An Interview with Jan Breman(Hosted by Deepali Aparajita Dungdung)Jan Breman is a Professor Emeritus at the...

Mobilities, Climates and Infrastructures: An Interview with Malini Sur(Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri)Malini Sur is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at We...

The sociology curriculum of most universities legitimizes, institutionalizes, and reproduces not just the fact that the origin of sociology as a discipline is rooted in Europe at the time of Enligh...

George Simmel is widely regarded as a pioneer of Urban Sociology. The Metropolis & Mental Life (1903), despite being published at a period when cities were quite different from today’s megacities...

Intimacy and Injury: In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy and published by Manchester University Press in 2022 is a fine collection of...

Rahul Ranjan holds the Research Council of Norway funded appointment as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He works for the "Rive...

‘Care’ being historically relegated to the sphere of the domestic and performed by women and other marginalised subjects without remuneration, itself assumed a marginalised position in the academic...

The act of mocking someone or something is to laugh at someone in an unkind way. It is an act of making fun of someone or something to hurt the individual or group in an indirect aesthetic way. The...

Shekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury’s Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961 (published by Oxford University Press in 2022) offers an in-depth discuss...

Introduction: P Sainath is a veteran journalist with more than forty years of experience. A Ramon Magsaysay Award winner, he has written extensively on agrarian distress and failure of the state in...

Shah Rukh Khan’s yet another blockbuster (Jawaan) on ‘mass hero image’ runs in theatres as I write. Much has been written on Shah Rukh Khan. This piece is however not based on its visual imagery or...

Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India by Roluahpuia (published by Cambridge University Press) in 2023, offers a significant contribution to...

A Discussion on The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change With Raewyn Connell and Maitrayee Chaudhuri (Hosted ...

Introduction The tea industry is the largest organized sector which employs millions of labourers – both permanent and temporary, most of them women. Hereby, the questions on “gender” result in...

Histories have not only been simply histories but gendered histories, where women, as both subject-object of studies and writer-reader of such works, have been systematically pushed to the margins...