Ufaque Paiker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5724331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ufaque Paiker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ufaque |
| FAMILY NAME | Paiker |
| SIGNATURE | PAIKER U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana, India |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-3804-4515 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Shadings of Languages
The article will study the processes through which Maithili was identified primarily with the Maithil Brahmin/Hindu community. It argues that ascribing religious identities to language was a product of the British colonial method of organizing and classifying languages. Rather than perceiving colonial knowledge of language in its finality and fixity, it focuses on the stages through which religious identification of languages was concretized. Dra…
Careful obstruction
Recent scholarship in critical urban studies has engaged with the idea of obstructions, blockades, and occupations as generative sites for political action and counter-hegemonic knowledge production. In this paper, we extend this analytical framing to understand women-led, sit-in-style protests in India against potential disenfranchisement through discriminatory legal amendments. Drawing from an extended oral history interview conducted with a gr…
Memorialising and Forgetting in the City
This article interrogates the conventional idea of urban by historicising Patna, a provincial town neglected in urban studies. We argue that behind this neglect is the perception of urbanity as a project of modernity, development and infrastructure. The article foregrounds the role of culture in terms of literary productions and activities as significant yet ignored markers to define and reconceptualise urbanity. By studying the cultural activiti…
Remembering Malan
This paper will discuss the construction of the ashraf identity through the representation of servants by a nineteenth-century Urdu poet of Bihar, Shad Azimabadi (1846–1927). Shad considered exclusivity of language and the distinctiveness of the master–servant relationship as a part of the adab culture (code of conduct) and the exclusivity of the ashraf. This exclusivity, however, underwent significant change amidst the economic decline that set …
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Remembering Malan
This paper will discuss the construction of the ashraf identity through the representation of servants by a nineteenth-century Urdu poet of Bihar, Shad Azimabadi (1846–1927). Shad considered exclusivity of language and the distinctiveness of the master–servant relationship as a part of the adab culture (code of conduct) and the exclusivity of the ashraf. This exclusivity, however, underwent significant change amidst the economic decline that set …
Memorialising and Forgetting in the City
This article interrogates the conventional idea of urban by historicising Patna, a provincial town neglected in urban studies. We argue that behind this neglect is the perception of urbanity as a project of modernity, development and infrastructure. The article foregrounds the role of culture in terms of literary productions and activities as significant yet ignored markers to define and reconceptualise urbanity. By studying the cultural activiti…
Careful obstruction
Recent scholarship in critical urban studies has engaged with the idea of obstructions, blockades, and occupations as generative sites for political action and counter-hegemonic knowledge production. In this paper, we extend this analytical framing to understand women-led, sit-in-style protests in India against potential disenfranchisement through discriminatory legal amendments. Drawing from an extended oral history interview conducted with a gr…
Shadings of Languages
The article will study the processes through which Maithili was identified primarily with the Maithil Brahmin/Hindu community. It argues that ascribing religious identities to language was a product of the British colonial method of organizing and classifying languages. Rather than perceiving colonial knowledge of language in its finality and fixity, it focuses on the stages through which religious identification of languages was concretized. Dra…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Caste (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Identity (music (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)