Tanika Sarkar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 212104 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tanika Sarkar |
| NOMBRES | Tanika |
| APELLIDO | Sarkar |
| FIRMA | SARKAR T |
| AFILIACIONES | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Archiving Femicide
The article argues that the immolation of hundreds of widows in colonial Bengal (eastern India) every year on the funeral pyres of their husbands constituted a distinct form of femicide: one valorized by faith even though the early colonial state was complicit with the practice for more than half a century. It tracks the formation of a colonial archive on the ritual of sati or immolation—this being one of the earliest instances of colonial record…
Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism
This book reflects the changing modalities of Hindu nationalist organizing among women and youth. It provides unique insights into how this immensely powerful political formation has been able to preside over a massive network of grassroots organisations among most segments of Indian society and capture national power. Chapters explore the techniques the RSS, VHP and BJP employ and the messages they convey about masculinity, femininity, and LGBTQ…
Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism
Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism
History as Patriotism
The Delhi state government in India has recently introduced a curriculum on patriotism for all Delhi government school students between classes 6 and 8: mandating a daily dose of patriotic sentimen
Hindutva
This chapter shows how Hindu nationalist ideology blurs the distinction between religion and state politics. Religious sentiments are subsumed into the national and cultural discourse to the extent that for many contemporary Hindus, nationalism has overtaken the function of faith as a perspective through which to understand the world. The chapter traces the current hospitable space in India for religious nationalism to the cultural nationalism in…
Intimate Violence in Colonial Bengal
Much excellent work has been done on the colonial Act X of 1891. Yet, three important contexts have largely gone missing. One is the framework of colonial Personal Laws where the practice of infantile marital cohabitation was embedded till it migrated to criminal laws. Unless we comprehend how the framework constrained judicial decisions and legal interventions, no single law can possibly make full sense. There were highly acrimonious public deba…
Special Guest Contribution
This article focuses on 'Love Jihad,' the neologism that Hindutva, or Hindu Extremism, has invented to incite suspicion and violence against Indian Muslims. I begin with a brief discussion of several characteristics of the Hindutva organisational and ideological apparatus. Then I discuss anti-Love Jihad campaigns as a strategy to assert Hindu extremism in interpersonal relations. I go on to highlight specific episodes of 'Love Jihad' attacks by t…
View from outside the field
Women and the Vote
Since feminist theorists began to look suspiciously at women's rights in the public arena which, they said, reinforce and mask their subordination in the private realm, histories of political women
A Just Measure of Death
Sarkar’s article looks at the Hindu ritual of widow immolation, which colonial law abolished in 1830. It explores the administration of the ritual before abolition and how, in the process of governance, the widow’s consent emerged as a prominent keyword in colonial bureaucratic discourses. It shows the ramifications of the concept of consent, the problem of establishing it, and the consequences of applying it
Something like rights? Faith, law and widow immolation debates in colonial Bengal
The article straddles two separate but intertwined registers. One is the interface between faith and law under early colonial rule. I explore this through the lens of colonial governance of immolations of Hindu widows. The other is the gradual transmutation of an idea or a word: consent, the widow’s consent to burning alive. The early colonial state formally institutionalised the widow’s consent as the basis for all lawful immolations. That, I ar…
Holy infancy
This article examines a late-eighteenth-century ‘subaltern’ sect within Bengal's Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition. The sect drew its following from East Bengal's upwardly mobile communities of petty traders. They found in Balakdas, a low-caste shudra guru and savant, but one who worked ultimately within the framework of caste hierarchy, a mode of expression for their emerging social and ritual aspirations. Balakdas's miraculous deeds in childhood led …
The meaning of Nandigram
This article discusses the events at Nandigram in West Bengal where in 2006-7, a Left Front government collaborated with an Indonesian corporate group to forcibly acquire land from local peasants and construct a Special Economic Zone. The events are placed against the broad processes of accumulation by dispossession through which peasants are losing their land and corporate profits are given priority over food production. The article looks at the…
Wicked Widows
Alaw was enacted in 1856 abrogating an earlier legal and prescriptive prohibition against the remarriage of Hindu widows. This law also underwrote the inheritance rights of sons born of remarriage.1 Even though a colonial legislature had enacted the law—a legislature where Indians were not represented—the idea of remarriage had originated among a small group of Bengali reformers who had approached and persuaded some members of the Legislative Cou…
Women and Social Reform in Modern India
How reforms affecting women shaped Indian history
Missionaries, Converts and the State in Colonial India
Enfranchised Selves
The essay identifies previously unnoticed signposts charting the construction of women in nineteenth-century Bengal as autonomous, self-possessed persons, with entitlements to an intellectual life and immunities against physical and sexual death. Out of these claims, the notion of the female citizen would emerge as a coherent and convincing possibility in the next century. This essay focuses on three pieces of colonial legislation, on specific co…
A Shudra Father for Our Lord
The Women's Movement in India Today-New Agendas and Old Problems
A Prehistory of Rights
Talking about Scandals
Educating the Children of the Hindu Rashtra
Bankimchandra and the Impossibility of a Political Agenda
A Book of Her Own. A Life of Her Own
Journal Article A Book of Her Own. A Life of Her Own: Autobiography of a Nineteenth-Cenury Woman Get access Tanika Sarkar Tanika Sarkar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 36, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1993, Pages 35–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/36.1.35 Published: 01 October 1993
A Prehistory of Rights
Special Guest Contribution
This article focuses on 'Love Jihad,' the neologism that Hindutva, or Hindu Extremism, has invented to incite suspicion and violence against Indian Muslims. I begin with a brief discussion of several characteristics of the Hindutva organisational and ideological apparatus. Then I discuss anti-Love Jihad campaigns as a strategy to assert Hindu extremism in interpersonal relations. I go on to highlight specific episodes of 'Love Jihad' attacks by t…
The Hindu wife and the Hindu nation
Politics and women in Bengal- the conditions and meaning of participation
A Book of Her Own. A Life of Her Own
Journal Article A Book of Her Own. A Life of Her Own: Autobiography of a Nineteenth-Cenury Woman Get access Tanika Sarkar Tanika Sarkar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 36, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1993, Pages 35–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/36.1.35 Published: 01 October 1993
The meaning of Nandigram
This article discusses the events at Nandigram in West Bengal where in 2006-7, a Left Front government collaborated with an Indonesian corporate group to forcibly acquire land from local peasants and construct a Special Economic Zone. The events are placed against the broad processes of accumulation by dispossession through which peasants are losing their land and corporate profits are given priority over food production. The article looks at the…
Enfranchised Selves
The essay identifies previously unnoticed signposts charting the construction of women in nineteenth-century Bengal as autonomous, self-possessed persons, with entitlements to an intellectual life and immunities against physical and sexual death. Out of these claims, the notion of the female citizen would emerge as a coherent and convincing possibility in the next century. This essay focuses on three pieces of colonial legislation, on specific co…
Talking about Scandals
The Women of the Hindutva brigade
The demolition of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya on 6 December 1992 and the subsequent explosion of anti-Muslim pogroms all over India have highlighted the very real possibility of a right-wing takeover of the Indian state in the name of the Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) movement. Any such transition would involve the redefinition of the state as Hindu rather than as secular or multicultural. It would also initiate a shift of state policies in a cons…
Something like rights? Faith, law and widow immolation debates in colonial Bengal
The article straddles two separate but intertwined registers. One is the interface between faith and law under early colonial rule. I explore this through the lens of colonial governance of immolations of Hindu widows. The other is the gradual transmutation of an idea or a word: consent, the widow’s consent to burning alive. The early colonial state formally institutionalised the widow’s consent as the basis for all lawful immolations. That, I ar…
The Women's Movement in India Today-New Agendas and Old Problems
A Just Measure of Death
Sarkar’s article looks at the Hindu ritual of widow immolation, which colonial law abolished in 1830. It explores the administration of the ritual before abolition and how, in the process of governance, the widow’s consent emerged as a prominent keyword in colonial bureaucratic discourses. It shows the ramifications of the concept of consent, the problem of establishing it, and the consequences of applying it
Educating the Children of the Hindu Rashtra
History as Patriotism
The Delhi state government in India has recently introduced a curriculum on patriotism for all Delhi government school students between classes 6 and 8: mandating a daily dose of patriotic sentimen
Intimate Violence in Colonial Bengal
Much excellent work has been done on the colonial Act X of 1891. Yet, three important contexts have largely gone missing. One is the framework of colonial Personal Laws where the practice of infantile marital cohabitation was embedded till it migrated to criminal laws. Unless we comprehend how the framework constrained judicial decisions and legal interventions, no single law can possibly make full sense. There were highly acrimonious public deba…
View from outside the field
Missionaries, Converts and the State in Colonial India
Bankimchandra and the Impossibility of a Political Agenda
Politics and women in Bengal- the conditions and meaning of participation
The Hindu wife and the Hindu nation
A Book of Her Own. A Life of Her Own
Journal Article A Book of Her Own. A Life of Her Own: Autobiography of a Nineteenth-Cenury Woman Get access Tanika Sarkar Tanika Sarkar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 36, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1993, Pages 35–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/36.1.35 Published: 01 October 1993
The Women of the Hindutva brigade
The demolition of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya on 6 December 1992 and the subsequent explosion of anti-Muslim pogroms all over India have highlighted the very real possibility of a right-wing takeover of the Indian state in the name of the Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) movement. Any such transition would involve the redefinition of the state as Hindu rather than as secular or multicultural. It would also initiate a shift of state policies in a cons…
Educating the Children of the Hindu Rashtra
Bankimchandra and the Impossibility of a Political Agenda
Talking about Scandals
A Shudra Father for Our Lord
The Women's Movement in India Today-New Agendas and Old Problems
A Prehistory of Rights
Enfranchised Selves
The essay identifies previously unnoticed signposts charting the construction of women in nineteenth-century Bengal as autonomous, self-possessed persons, with entitlements to an intellectual life and immunities against physical and sexual death. Out of these claims, the notion of the female citizen would emerge as a coherent and convincing possibility in the next century. This essay focuses on three pieces of colonial legislation, on specific co…
Missionaries, Converts and the State in Colonial India
Wicked Widows
Alaw was enacted in 1856 abrogating an earlier legal and prescriptive prohibition against the remarriage of Hindu widows. This law also underwrote the inheritance rights of sons born of remarriage.1 Even though a colonial legislature had enacted the law—a legislature where Indians were not represented—the idea of remarriage had originated among a small group of Bengali reformers who had approached and persuaded some members of the Legislative Cou…
Women and Social Reform in Modern India
How reforms affecting women shaped Indian history
The meaning of Nandigram
This article discusses the events at Nandigram in West Bengal where in 2006-7, a Left Front government collaborated with an Indonesian corporate group to forcibly acquire land from local peasants and construct a Special Economic Zone. The events are placed against the broad processes of accumulation by dispossession through which peasants are losing their land and corporate profits are given priority over food production. The article looks at the…
Holy infancy
This article examines a late-eighteenth-century ‘subaltern’ sect within Bengal's Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition. The sect drew its following from East Bengal's upwardly mobile communities of petty traders. They found in Balakdas, a low-caste shudra guru and savant, but one who worked ultimately within the framework of caste hierarchy, a mode of expression for their emerging social and ritual aspirations. Balakdas's miraculous deeds in childhood led …
Something like rights? Faith, law and widow immolation debates in colonial Bengal
The article straddles two separate but intertwined registers. One is the interface between faith and law under early colonial rule. I explore this through the lens of colonial governance of immolations of Hindu widows. The other is the gradual transmutation of an idea or a word: consent, the widow’s consent to burning alive. The early colonial state formally institutionalised the widow’s consent as the basis for all lawful immolations. That, I ar…
A Just Measure of Death
Sarkar’s article looks at the Hindu ritual of widow immolation, which colonial law abolished in 1830. It explores the administration of the ritual before abolition and how, in the process of governance, the widow’s consent emerged as a prominent keyword in colonial bureaucratic discourses. It shows the ramifications of the concept of consent, the problem of establishing it, and the consequences of applying it
Women and the Vote
Since feminist theorists began to look suspiciously at women's rights in the public arena which, they said, reinforce and mask their subordination in the private realm, histories of political women
View from outside the field
Special Guest Contribution
This article focuses on 'Love Jihad,' the neologism that Hindutva, or Hindu Extremism, has invented to incite suspicion and violence against Indian Muslims. I begin with a brief discussion of several characteristics of the Hindutva organisational and ideological apparatus. Then I discuss anti-Love Jihad campaigns as a strategy to assert Hindu extremism in interpersonal relations. I go on to highlight specific episodes of 'Love Jihad' attacks by t…
Intimate Violence in Colonial Bengal
Much excellent work has been done on the colonial Act X of 1891. Yet, three important contexts have largely gone missing. One is the framework of colonial Personal Laws where the practice of infantile marital cohabitation was embedded till it migrated to criminal laws. Unless we comprehend how the framework constrained judicial decisions and legal interventions, no single law can possibly make full sense. There were highly acrimonious public deba…
Hindutva
This chapter shows how Hindu nationalist ideology blurs the distinction between religion and state politics. Religious sentiments are subsumed into the national and cultural discourse to the extent that for many contemporary Hindus, nationalism has overtaken the function of faith as a perspective through which to understand the world. The chapter traces the current hospitable space in India for religious nationalism to the cultural nationalism in…
Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism
This book reflects the changing modalities of Hindu nationalist organizing among women and youth. It provides unique insights into how this immensely powerful political formation has been able to preside over a massive network of grassroots organisations among most segments of Indian society and capture national power. Chapters explore the techniques the RSS, VHP and BJP employ and the messages they convey about masculinity, femininity, and LGBTQ…
Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism
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