P Gupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 19666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Gupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Gupta |
| SIGNATURE | GUPTA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1599-1137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Analysing perception of data security and privacy framework of patients’ data in Indian hospitals
Purpose This paper examines the perception of people involved in the management of patients’ data towards the security and privacy framework in Indian hospitals. The paper aims to identify the major weaknesses in the data management system and their implications for data administrators, government agencies and regulators. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a survey method to examine the perceived data security and privacy by assessing Vu…
A comparative study of automated undergraduate engineering admission prediction in an Indian university using machine learning
Response to Marzia Milazzo's review of Conspicuous Consumption in Africa
We are writing as contributors to, and editors of, the volume Conspicuous Consumption in Africa (WUP, 2019), to express our deep concern at a review of this book which was published in Ethnic and R
Ways of Seeing Wetness
This article takes John Berger's seminal book on art criticism, Ways of Seeing (1972), as a starting point for looking at the South Asian monsoons from the perspective of wetness. Revisiting Gupta's 2012 work ‘Monsoon Fever’ to think through its watery elements as more closely tied to the visual, sensorial, and affective, it focuses on three distinct representations of the monsoons: photographer Ritesh Uttamchandani's 2014 ‘Facing the Monsoon’ se…
Blowing up "the World" in World Anthropologies
Moving still
Stone Town’s busy streets in the 1950s became a set for photographer Ranchhod Oza, proprietor of Capital Art Studio (1930–83). I was aesthetically drawn to the numerous bicycles portrayed in these Zanzibari images, just as Oza had been at an earlier time and place. I am less interested in reading the subject of bicycles as simply a sign of Zanzibari modernity, an accoutrement that projects a fantasy of advancement via technological things. Instea…
Of Sky, Water and Skin
In this article, I propose to take up the concept and physical space of a photographic 'darkroom' located in Stone Town, Zanzibar, to explore a set of images from the Capital Art Studio (1930-present) collection produced by Ranchhod Oza (1907-93), and inherited by his son Rohit Oza (1950-). I employ a concept of darkness to read this visual archive differently and propose multiple 'other lives' for a set of images. First, by bringing this African…
Of Ports and Portugal
This article will track my own intellectual engagement with Michael Pearson’s wide-ranging scholarship (on topics that range from ports to Portugal) over a twenty-year span (1995-2015). Similar to Pearson, I began my academic career as a Goa (Indo-Portuguese) specialist and moved onto studying the Indian Ocean as a point of connection and comparison across aquatic terrains. I will take up certain “keywords” as a vocabulary of culture and society …
The substance of style
Yo-yo culture
The years following the Marikana massacre were tumultuous ones in South Africa, characterized by corruption scandals, economic downgrades, rising unemployment and increasing resistance to Jacob Zuma’s presidency from South Africans across race, class, regional and political lines. The country’s outlook was pessimistic with dystopian predictions circulating widely as the Zuma regime slowly attempted to erode hard-won democratic processes and pover…
(Vernacular) photography from Africa
(2018). (Vernacular) photography from Africa: collections, preservation, dialogue. Critical Arts: Vol. 32, Vernacular Photography, pp. 1-12
(Sensuous) Ways of Seeing in Stone Town, Zanzibar
In his influential BBC series and landmark book on art criticism, Ways of Seeing (1972), author John Berger suggests that how we see things is determined by what we know. This article takes up his point to explore creative ways of seeing (and thus reading, viewing, interpreting, writing about, displaying, curating) the Ranchhod and Rohit Oza (father and son) vernacular photography collection from Stone Town, Zanzibar that spans 1930 to the presen…
The corporeal and the carnivalesque
To enter Old Goa during the 2004 Exposition of St. Francis Xavier’s “Sacred Relics” is to experience a world where the corporeal and the carnivalesque coalesce. It is a ritual and religious space wherein the corpse of a 16th century Jesuit missionary-turned-saint takes center stage: pilgrims and tourists stand in the same line to “see” Xavier’s corpse and “touch” his glass casing, Goa’s (Portuguese) colonial legacy is exhibited for public consump…
Opening-up Mozambique
International audience
The relic state
This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place in Goa throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in India (1510-1961), and for which the centrepiece was the "incorrupt" corpse of São Francisco Xavier, a (Spanish Basque) Jesuit missionary (1506–1552)-turned-saint (1622). Us…
Conclusion
The last chapter explores some of the contours of Goa’s postcolonial imaginary, including the author’s ethnographic encounters with Xavier both in the archive and the field, the extraordinary and the everyday. Some of the conceptual investments of this historical anthropology project are then underscored: to "translate" saint veneration to a colonial context; explore the spiritual and the material aspects of colonialization and missionization; lo…
Visuality and Diasporic Dynamism
This article engages Goan diasporic dynamism in littoral East Africa – Mozambique and Zanzibar, respectively. It begins by considering a series of images taken by Mozambican photographer Ricardo Rangel, that of a rural Goan fishing community living across the bay from Lourenço Marques (present day Maputo), in the small village of Catembe in the early 1970s on the eve of Portuguese decolonisation. It then places this photo archive in dialogue with…
Futures, fakes and discourses of the gigantic and miniature in ‘The World’ islands, Dubai
This article takes the “island” as a key trope in tourism studies, exploring how ideas of culture and nature, as well as those of paradise (lost) are central to its interpretation for tourists and tourist industries alike. Increasingly, however, island tourism is blurring the line between geographies of land and water, continent and archipelago, and private and public property. The case of ‘The World’ islands mega project off the coast of Dubai (…
Community, Memory, and Migration in a Globalizing World
Autoethnographic interventions and ‘intimate exposures’ in Ricardo Rangel's Portuguese Mozambique
Trained as a photojournalist, Ricardo Rangel (1924–2009) has contributed some of Mozambique's most iconic images, even as many of his colonial-era photographs were banned or destroyed by Portuguese censors. In this article, using the concept of the archive as less a repository than a process, I delve into his photographic collection that, for me, speaks so cogently about Mozambican society during the last years of Portuguese colonialism (1961–197…
Consuming the Coast
Throughout the early to mid-20th century, tourist passenger cruise liners moving along the Southern African coast were a popular leisure activity, undertaken by largely elite (white) Europeans (predominately British), Americans, and South Africans, with stopping off points including multiple Indian Ocean port cities such as Cape Town and Durban in South Africa and Lourenço Marques and Beira in Portuguese Mozambique. By considering the above twine…
The relic state
This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place in Goa throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in India (1510-1961), and for which the centrepiece was the “incorrupt” corpse of São Francisco Xavier, a (Spanish Basque) Jesuit missionary (1506–1552)-turned-saint (1622). Us…
Frozen Vodka and White Skin in Tourist Goa
Some (Not So) Lost Aquatic Traditions
Every year on 29 June members of an immigrant Goan fishing community living in the port of Catembe (Mozambique) gather for a religious ceremony at a designated spot on the shore overlooking the Indian Ocean with Maputo's skyline as a backdrop. They pray to São Pedro (Catholic St Peter) to bless their boats for the coming fishing season. Afterwards, they take out their highly decorated vessels, very often dedicated to Catholic patron saints, into …
Monsoon fever
The monsoon provides a useful spatial template for thinking more generally about the future direction(s) of Indian Ocean studies. Precisely because of its defining character – it connects water and sky, and links geography (specifically climate and climate change) with politics and development – it allows us to engage with the "oceanic" more seriously. In addition, the monsoon offers a point for reflection on connectivity – that is, on how people…
The Life of the Corpse
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
The Disquieting of History
This article presents a case study of Goan Mozambicans - a diasporic group created out of the itinerant quality that characterized Portuguese (de)colonization in the Indian Ocean. Many chose to emigrate from Portuguese India to Portuguese Africa between the 1920s and 1950s. That some Goans chose to stay while others left in the aftermath of Mozambican independence (1975) is also tied to this migratory history. An ethnographic life history approac…
Blowing up "the World" in World Anthropologies
Mapping Portuguese Decolonisation in the Indian Ocean
(2007). Mapping Portuguese Decolonisation in the Indian Ocean: A Research Agenda. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 93-112
Futures, fakes and discourses of the gigantic and miniature in ‘The World’ islands, Dubai
This article takes the “island” as a key trope in tourism studies, exploring how ideas of culture and nature, as well as those of paradise (lost) are central to its interpretation for tourists and tourist industries alike. Increasingly, however, island tourism is blurring the line between geographies of land and water, continent and archipelago, and private and public property. The case of ‘The World’ islands mega project off the coast of Dubai (…
Monsoon fever
The monsoon provides a useful spatial template for thinking more generally about the future direction(s) of Indian Ocean studies. Precisely because of its defining character – it connects water and sky, and links geography (specifically climate and climate change) with politics and development – it allows us to engage with the "oceanic" more seriously. In addition, the monsoon offers a point for reflection on connectivity – that is, on how people…
Gandhi and the Goa Question
Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is analyzed as a statement of transnational politics and circulation, its ideas enabled by the Indian Ocean and applicable to Goa's independence from Portuguese colonial rule
Visuality and Diasporic Dynamism
This article engages Goan diasporic dynamism in littoral East Africa – Mozambique and Zanzibar, respectively. It begins by considering a series of images taken by Mozambican photographer Ricardo Rangel, that of a rural Goan fishing community living across the bay from Lourenço Marques (present day Maputo), in the small village of Catembe in the early 1970s on the eve of Portuguese decolonisation. It then places this photo archive in dialogue with…
Moving still
Stone Town’s busy streets in the 1950s became a set for photographer Ranchhod Oza, proprietor of Capital Art Studio (1930–83). I was aesthetically drawn to the numerous bicycles portrayed in these Zanzibari images, just as Oza had been at an earlier time and place. I am less interested in reading the subject of bicycles as simply a sign of Zanzibari modernity, an accoutrement that projects a fantasy of advancement via technological things. Instea…
Yo-yo culture
The years following the Marikana massacre were tumultuous ones in South Africa, characterized by corruption scandals, economic downgrades, rising unemployment and increasing resistance to Jacob Zuma’s presidency from South Africans across race, class, regional and political lines. The country’s outlook was pessimistic with dystopian predictions circulating widely as the Zuma regime slowly attempted to erode hard-won democratic processes and pover…
(Vernacular) photography from Africa
(2018). (Vernacular) photography from Africa: collections, preservation, dialogue. Critical Arts: Vol. 32, Vernacular Photography, pp. 1-12
A comparative study of automated undergraduate engineering admission prediction in an Indian university using machine learning
Response to Marzia Milazzo's review of Conspicuous Consumption in Africa
We are writing as contributors to, and editors of, the volume Conspicuous Consumption in Africa (WUP, 2019), to express our deep concern at a review of this book which was published in Ethnic and R
(Sensuous) Ways of Seeing in Stone Town, Zanzibar
In his influential BBC series and landmark book on art criticism, Ways of Seeing (1972), author John Berger suggests that how we see things is determined by what we know. This article takes up his point to explore creative ways of seeing (and thus reading, viewing, interpreting, writing about, displaying, curating) the Ranchhod and Rohit Oza (father and son) vernacular photography collection from Stone Town, Zanzibar that spans 1930 to the presen…
Opening-up Mozambique
International audience
Introduction
ABO Blod Groups in Tripura (North-East India)
Quantity vs Quality in Science Studies Literature
The Origin of Brāhmī Script
Development Planning in Asia
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Mapping Portuguese Decolonisation in the Indian Ocean
(2007). Mapping Portuguese Decolonisation in the Indian Ocean: A Research Agenda. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 93-112
Ângela Barreto Xavier, A Invenção de Goa
The idea of «invention» invokes a double dislocation, one of space and time. This is the premise upon which Ângela Barreto Xavier sets out to explain how Goa – what we understand it to be, that is – was invented in the context of the experience of imperial Portuguese expansion overseas during the span of the 16th and 17th centuries and in a particular region of South India. Certain viable political and economic conditions allowed for this inventi…
Introduction
A Voyage of Convalescence
This article takes as its analytical focus a little-known travelogue written by the well-known British traveller, translator, and proto-ethnographer, (Sir) Richard Burton. Entitled Goa and the Blue Mountains, Or Six Months of Sick Leave, it was not well received at the time of its publication, despite the apparent British ‘thirst’ for this literary genre. Central is the theme of ‘imperial ills’ as seen from the point of view of a recuperating Eng…
The Disquieting of History
This article presents a case study of Goan Mozambicans - a diasporic group created out of the itinerant quality that characterized Portuguese (de)colonization in the Indian Ocean. Many chose to emigrate from Portuguese India to Portuguese Africa between the 1920s and 1950s. That some Goans chose to stay while others left in the aftermath of Mozambican independence (1975) is also tied to this migratory history. An ethnographic life history approac…
The Life of the Corpse
Discourses of Incorruptibility
Em 1553, o corpo do missionário jesuíta Francisco Xavier foi declarado miraculosamente preservado e enviado para Goa. Como surgiu e se manteve ao longo do tempo a ideia da sua incorruptibilidade material no Estado da Índia? Este estudo analisa um conjunto de exames médicos realizados para sancionar as aparições públicas deste santo ou Exposições como os funcionários coloniais lhes chamavam. O discurso destes relatórios de autópsia encontra-se ent…
Disquietude And The Writing Of Ethnographic Histories
This chapter attracts readers' attention to the myriad ways that authors specializing on migrations in a particular time but a wide variety of interconnected locations have approached the integration of migration into world history. Connecting Seas makes it possible to specify more precisely how migrations contributed to making the nineteenth century an era of globalization that was in some ways distinctive from the early modern globalization and…
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
Gandhi and the Goa Question
Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is analyzed as a statement of transnational politics and circulation, its ideas enabled by the Indian Ocean and applicable to Goa's independence from Portuguese colonial rule
Monsoon fever
The monsoon provides a useful spatial template for thinking more generally about the future direction(s) of Indian Ocean studies. Precisely because of its defining character – it connects water and sky, and links geography (specifically climate and climate change) with politics and development – it allows us to engage with the "oceanic" more seriously. In addition, the monsoon offers a point for reflection on connectivity – that is, on how people…
The relic state
This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place in Goa throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in India (1510-1961), and for which the centrepiece was the “incorrupt” corpse of São Francisco Xavier, a (Spanish Basque) Jesuit missionary (1506–1552)-turned-saint (1622). Us…
Frozen Vodka and White Skin in Tourist Goa
Some (Not So) Lost Aquatic Traditions
Every year on 29 June members of an immigrant Goan fishing community living in the port of Catembe (Mozambique) gather for a religious ceremony at a designated spot on the shore overlooking the Indian Ocean with Maputo's skyline as a backdrop. They pray to São Pedro (Catholic St Peter) to bless their boats for the coming fishing season. Afterwards, they take out their highly decorated vessels, very often dedicated to Catholic patron saints, into …
Futures, fakes and discourses of the gigantic and miniature in ‘The World’ islands, Dubai
This article takes the “island” as a key trope in tourism studies, exploring how ideas of culture and nature, as well as those of paradise (lost) are central to its interpretation for tourists and tourist industries alike. Increasingly, however, island tourism is blurring the line between geographies of land and water, continent and archipelago, and private and public property. The case of ‘The World’ islands mega project off the coast of Dubai (…
Community, Memory, and Migration in a Globalizing World
Autoethnographic interventions and ‘intimate exposures’ in Ricardo Rangel's Portuguese Mozambique
Trained as a photojournalist, Ricardo Rangel (1924–2009) has contributed some of Mozambique's most iconic images, even as many of his colonial-era photographs were banned or destroyed by Portuguese censors. In this article, using the concept of the archive as less a repository than a process, I delve into his photographic collection that, for me, speaks so cogently about Mozambican society during the last years of Portuguese colonialism (1961–197…
Consuming the Coast
Throughout the early to mid-20th century, tourist passenger cruise liners moving along the Southern African coast were a popular leisure activity, undertaken by largely elite (white) Europeans (predominately British), Americans, and South Africans, with stopping off points including multiple Indian Ocean port cities such as Cape Town and Durban in South Africa and Lourenço Marques and Beira in Portuguese Mozambique. By considering the above twine…
The relic state
This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place in Goa throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in India (1510-1961), and for which the centrepiece was the "incorrupt" corpse of São Francisco Xavier, a (Spanish Basque) Jesuit missionary (1506–1552)-turned-saint (1622). Us…
Conclusion
The last chapter explores some of the contours of Goa’s postcolonial imaginary, including the author’s ethnographic encounters with Xavier both in the archive and the field, the extraordinary and the everyday. Some of the conceptual investments of this historical anthropology project are then underscored: to "translate" saint veneration to a colonial context; explore the spiritual and the material aspects of colonialization and missionization; lo…
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