Robin Jeffrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3829596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Jeffrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Jeffrey |
| SIGNATURE | JEFFREY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Riaz Hassan, AM Fassa (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)
Riaz Hassan, AM FASSA (August 14, 1937–June 8, 2022)." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 45(5), pp. 951–952
Waste of a Nation
Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey argue that in India the removal and reuse of waste lays waste to human lives. People at the bottom are injured and stigmatized as they work with sewage, toxic chemicals, and rotting garbage. If India is to emerge as a model for the world, its policies will have to reach beyond the environment, to encompass empathy.
Making news in global India. Media, publics, politics, by Sahana Udupa
"Making news in global India. Media, publics, politics, by Sahana Udupa." Asian Studies Review, 42(4), pp. 725–726
Waste of a Nation
Wheatish
10.1080/00856401.2017.1297029
Research Fields and Scholarly Goats
Notes1. D.A. Low (ed.), Soundings in Modern South Asian History (Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968).2. D.A. Low, J.C. Iltis and M.D. Wainwright (eds), Government Archives in South Asia: A Guide to National and State Archives in Ceylon, India and Pakistan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969).3. A. Aiyappan, Iravas and Culture Change (Madras, 1943).4. See, for instance, articles by Kathleen Gough in David M. Schnei…
Soundings and Echoes
Clean India! Symbols, Policies and Tensions
This essay assesses the Swachh Bharat! or Clean India! campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. The essay identifies the immense scope of the task—to create a 'clean India' by 2019—the pressures that make improved public sanitation urgent and the prime minister's experience in the state of Gujarat that may encourage him to believe that achievements are possible. The essay gauges the political risks and benefits for a prime minister …
Peter Reeves (1935–2015)
Being Muslim in South Asia
The 500 million Muslims who live in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka constitute roughly one-third of the world’s Muslims. Their lives in the twenty-first century are challenging and diverse. Too often in recent years, they have been unfairly associated with terrorism, as anyone with a Muslim name who has passed through a Western airport will attest. But South Asian Muslims do what other people do: they educate their children, earn livin…
Being Muslim in South Asia
What experiences and practices characterize the lives of Muslims in South Asia today? This book examines the contests of ideas, begun 150 years ago, that have translated into political actions touching the lives of tens of millions. Equally, the book focuses on aspects of daily life to emphasize that there are diverse ways of being Muslim. The book is an essential tool for anyone interested in the lives and futures of South Asia's 500 million Mus…
The Great Indian Phone Book
Over just a decade in India, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare, unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized staple that even poor fisherman can afford. Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey investigate the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history and explore the whole ecosystem of cheap mobile phones.
Diminishing conflicts in Asia and the Pacific
Mobile-izing
We argue that the 2007 state elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India's largest state, were the first "mass mobile phone" elections in India. The paper charts the spectacular growth of the cheap cell phone in India and in Uttar Pradesh, documents the organizational strengths of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and explains how a party once based on Dalit (ex-Untouchable, or Scheduled Caste) support was able to cooperate with Brahmins. In these proces…
The Mobile Phone in India and Nepal
This article scans the effects of mobile-phone communication, particularly in South Asia. It focuses on three important areas: political economy, politics and social practices. By 2012 India had more than 900 million telephone subscribers, 96 percent of them on cell phones, and the majority of users were the poor. At the other end of the social scale, the mobile phone provoked bitter struggles among some of India's biggest business houses and bra…
Celling India
The mobile phone has been one of the most disruptive factors to come to India in modern times. This article aims to chalk out a framework for understanding the cell phone's all-encompassing social impact. The extent of the change is huge. In 1987, India had 2.3 million phone connections (0.3% of its population). By January 2010, that number had gone up to 688 million phone connections (about 60% of the population if phones had been evenly distrib…
Robert Knight
Robert Knight: Reforming Editor in Victorian India Edwin Hirschmann New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2008 xi+272 pp., ISBN: 0195696220 (INR 1,375.00 hardback) This beguiling labour of love is a
Testing Concepts about Print, Newspapers, and Politics
This essay attempts to bring greater subtlety to our understanding of the role that print and newspapers play in the shaping of modern society. The essay begins by focusing on the centrality that Jrgen Habermas and Benedict Anderson give to print and newspapers and examines the applicability of their ideas to Kerala, India's most newspaper-consuming state, over the past 200 years. The essay suggests that by conceptualizing print and newspaper dev…
The Mahatma didn’t like the movies and why it matters
This article examines the ideological and structural foundations of Indian broadcasting policy as it developed from the 1920s to the 1990s. The article argues that the failure of Indian governments to make the most of radio and television for economic and social development stemmed from three sources: (i) the restrictive policies inherited from a colonial state; (ii) the puritanism of the Gandhian national movement; and (iii) the fear, made vivid…
Legacies of Matriliny
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Grand Canyon, Shaky bridge
[NOT] being there
Defining India/NS
Subliminal Charge
The expansion of newspapers in Indian languages over the past 20 years is unique in history. This paper seeks to examine the potential social and political consequences of that growth by focusing on two Hindi-language newspapers and their treatment of a few items of news and comment. Through such close analysis, the essay aims to show how McLuhan's 'subliminal charge' - the unconscious but overpowering effect of daily newspaper consumption - migh…
Clean India! Symbols, Policies and Tensions
This essay assesses the Swachh Bharat! or Clean India! campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. The essay identifies the immense scope of the task—to create a 'clean India' by 2019—the pressures that make improved public sanitation urgent and the prime minister's experience in the state of Gujarat that may encourage him to believe that achievements are possible. The essay gauges the political risks and benefits for a prime minister …
Temple-Entry Movement in Travancore, 1860-1940
Governments and Culture
A SINGLE IMAGE dramatized Kerala's literacy for me. I was on a bus lurching northwards out of Ernakulam early on a monsoon morning in July 1968. Heavy rain bubbled into the red laterite soil and surged down the sides of the road like strong tea. The canvas window-curtains were let down to keep out the rain, and the inside of the bus steamed. At the first stop, I lifted the curtain to let in some air. A few metres away, an old woman dressed in whi…
What the Statues Tell
C1A THERE IN THE WORLD, asked Malayala Manorama on 4 June V V 1948, statues guarded by the police? It answered its own question: in Trivandrum, the capital of the princely state of Travancore on India's southwestern coast. Since March 1948 Travancore had rejoiced in its own popular government, elected by universal adult franchise. Yet statues of the hated Dewan (minister) of the ancien regime still remained, protected by a police guard from possi…
The social origins of a caste association, 1875–1905
(1974). The social origins of a caste association, 1875–1905: The founding of the S.N.D.P. Yogam. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 39-59
The Decline of Nayar Dominance
The Punjab Boundary Force and the Problem of Order, August 1947
The Punjab Boundary Force, which represented the last incarnation of the old British Indian Army, had an operational existence of thirty-two days, from 1 August to 1 September 1947, inclusive. That it failed in its assignment 'to safeguard the peace in the Punjab' during the partition of India is evident from the transfer of populations and tens of thousands of deaths. However, the actions of the Force and the circumstances of its failure are of …
The Mahatma didn’t like the movies and why it matters
This article examines the ideological and structural foundations of Indian broadcasting policy as it developed from the 1920s to the 1990s. The article argues that the failure of Indian governments to make the most of radio and television for economic and social development stemmed from three sources: (i) the restrictive policies inherited from a colonial state; (ii) the puritanism of the Gandhian national movement; and (iii) the fear, made vivid…
Jawaharlal Nehru and the smoking gun
(1991). Jawaharlal Nehru and the smoking gun: Who pulled the trigger on Kerala's communist government in 1959? The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 72-85
The politics of ‘indirect rule’
Celling India
The mobile phone has been one of the most disruptive factors to come to India in modern times. This article aims to chalk out a framework for understanding the cell phone's all-encompassing social impact. The extent of the change is huge. In 1987, India had 2.3 million phone connections (0.3% of its population). By January 2010, that number had gone up to 688 million phone connections (about 60% of the population if phones had been evenly distrib…
Testing Concepts about Print, Newspapers, and Politics
This essay attempts to bring greater subtlety to our understanding of the role that print and newspapers play in the shaping of modern society. The essay begins by focusing on the centrality that Jrgen Habermas and Benedict Anderson give to print and newspapers and examines the applicability of their ideas to Kerala, India's most newspaper-consuming state, over the past 200 years. The essay suggests that by conceptualizing print and newspaper dev…
Monitoring Newspapers and Understanding the Indian State
Research Article| August 01 1994 Monitoring Newspapers and Understanding the Indian State Robin Jeffrey Robin Jeffrey Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1994) 34 (8): 748–763. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645262 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site C…
Matriliny, Marxism, and the Birth of the Communist Party in Kerala, 1930-1940
Why has communism flourished in some parts of Asia and not in others? Examining the case of Kerala, this paper argues that, in India at least, social dislocation is the crucial ingredient when added to poverty, landlessness, and literacy. In Kerala, the matrilineal family system of caste-Hindus and the attendant system of extreme disabilities enforced against the low castes collapsed in the early twentieth century. The social upheaval was greater…
Caste Associations in South India
Mobile-izing
We argue that the 2007 state elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India's largest state, were the first "mass mobile phone" elections in India. The paper charts the spectacular growth of the cheap cell phone in India and in Uttar Pradesh, documents the organizational strengths of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and explains how a party once based on Dalit (ex-Untouchable, or Scheduled Caste) support was able to cooperate with Brahmins. In these proces…
[NOT] being there
Advertising and Indian-Language Newspapers
India's Working Class Revolt
Religious Symbolisation of the Transition from Caste to Class
Dans une première partie de l'article, l'Auteur explique com ment le capitalisme colonial introduit par les Anglais a bouleversé les structures traditionnelles de la société du Travancore (Sud du Kerala). Il analyse la naissance d'une nouvelle classe élitique et sa liaison avec les anciennes castes. Dans la deuxième partie, l'Auteur étudie un fait religieux, le mouvement pour l'ouverture à toutes les castes des temples jusqu'alors réservés aux ca…
Grand Canyon, Shaky bridge
Subliminal Charge
The expansion of newspapers in Indian languages over the past 20 years is unique in history. This paper seeks to examine the potential social and political consequences of that growth by focusing on two Hindi-language newspapers and their treatment of a few items of news and comment. Through such close analysis, the essay aims to show how McLuhan's 'subliminal charge' - the unconscious but overpowering effect of daily newspaper consumption - migh…
The right stuff
(1995). The right stuff: Leadership, representation and India's parliamentary system. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 257-275
Women and the ‘Kerala model’
India Since Independence
The social origins of a caste association, 1875–1905
(1974). The social origins of a caste association, 1875–1905: The founding of the S.N.D.P. Yogam. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 39-59
The Punjab Boundary Force and the Problem of Order, August 1947
The Punjab Boundary Force, which represented the last incarnation of the old British Indian Army, had an operational existence of thirty-two days, from 1 August to 1 September 1947, inclusive. That it failed in its assignment 'to safeguard the peace in the Punjab' during the partition of India is evident from the transfer of populations and tens of thousands of deaths. However, the actions of the Force and the circumstances of its failure are of …
The politics of ‘indirect rule’
Caste Associations in South India
Temple-Entry Movement in Travancore, 1860-1940
Letters
Area notes
Area notes
Bureaucratic politics in an imperial system
A Note on the Malayali Origins of Anti-Brahminism in South India
The Decline of Nayar Dominance
The Decline of Nayar Dominance. Society and Politics in Travancore, 1847-1908
Matriliny, Marxism, and the Birth of the Communist Party in Kerala, 1930-1940
Why has communism flourished in some parts of Asia and not in others? Examining the case of Kerala, this paper argues that, in India at least, social dislocation is the crucial ingredient when added to poverty, landlessness, and literacy. In Kerala, the matrilineal family system of caste-Hindus and the attendant system of extreme disabilities enforced against the low castes collapsed in the early twentieth century. The social upheaval was greater…
Dimensions of Social Change in India
A Caste in a Changing World. The Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmans, 1700-1935
JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES the Indian economy as it existed until independ- ence. Barun De's The Colonial Content of the Bengal Renaissance is an abstract of what could have been a major revisionist Marxist essay on Indian history. Alas, it seems that this very im- portant short piece was written during the long journey from Calcutta to London in between sips of gin-and-tonic. Many provocative ques- tions are ask~d and not answered. D . H . Kill- i…
Cohesion and Conflict in Modern India
What the Statues Tell
C1A THERE IN THE WORLD, asked Malayala Manorama on 4 June V V 1948, statues guarded by the police? It answered its own question: in Trivandrum, the capital of the princely state of Travancore on India's southwestern coast. Since March 1948 Travancore had rejoiced in its own popular government, elected by universal adult franchise. Yet statues of the hated Dewan (minister) of the ancien regime still remained, protected by a police guard from possi…
Asia—The Winning of Independence
India's Working Class Revolt
People, Princes and Parmount Power. Society and Politics in the Indian Princely States
Agrarian Class Conflict
Religious Symbolisation of the Transition from Caste to Class
Dans une première partie de l'article, l'Auteur explique com ment le capitalisme colonial introduit par les Anglais a bouleversé les structures traditionnelles de la société du Travancore (Sud du Kerala). Il analyse la naissance d'une nouvelle classe élitique et sa liaison avec les anciennes castes. Dans la deuxième partie, l'Auteur étudie un fait religieux, le mouvement pour l'ouverture à toutes les castes des temples jusqu'alors réservés aux ca…
The First Communist Ministry in Kerala, 1957-1959
Asia
Asia
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