Awadhendra Sharan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1022658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Awadhendra Sharan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Awadhendra |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharan |
| SIGNATURE | SHARAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for the Study of Developing Societies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Clean Kitchens and Ventilated Homes: Towards a History of Breathing in Modern India
David Livingstone’s The Empire of Climate: A History of An Idea
Pollution Is Colonialism
Domestic environments, urban air and climate change
Climate change and the pandemic, each in its own way, has powerfully drawn our attention to the imbrication of human lives with non-humans. In this article, I attempt to address these linkages through a focus on energy use and environment in Indian cities, especially in domestic settings. The introduction section of the article presents its background. The second section discusses weather and the colonial science of climatology in thinking about …
A river and the riverfront: Delhi’s Yamuna as an in-between space
From source to sink: ‘Official’ and ‘improved’ water in Delhi, 1868–1956
This article examines the making of a modern colonial city through the rhetoric of ‘improvement’ and ‘progress’ in relation to water. The reference is to the history of water in the city of Delhi and what may be called ‘the first science of environment’ in a colonial urban context, with a focus not so much on the ‘extent’ of water supply and drainage, and its (in)adequacy in the colonial city, as on concerns around the ‘(im)purity’ of water, narr…
From caste to category: Colonial knowledge practices and the Depressed/Scheduled Castes of Bihar
This article seeks to unpack the administrative and knowledge practices through which the community of Depressed Classes/Scheduled Castes was delineated in colonial Bihar. It does so by examining both the distinctions that were posed between Untouchables and the upper castes, and between them and the Criminal Tribes. Four fields are examined with respect to the marking of these boundaries-social/religious, law and order, education, and political …
From source to sink: ‘Official’ and ‘improved’ water in Delhi, 1868–1956
This article examines the making of a modern colonial city through the rhetoric of ‘improvement’ and ‘progress’ in relation to water. The reference is to the history of water in the city of Delhi and what may be called ‘the first science of environment’ in a colonial urban context, with a focus not so much on the ‘extent’ of water supply and drainage, and its (in)adequacy in the colonial city, as on concerns around the ‘(im)purity’ of water, narr…
From caste to category: Colonial knowledge practices and the Depressed/Scheduled Castes of Bihar
This article seeks to unpack the administrative and knowledge practices through which the community of Depressed Classes/Scheduled Castes was delineated in colonial Bihar. It does so by examining both the distinctions that were posed between Untouchables and the upper castes, and between them and the Criminal Tribes. Four fields are examined with respect to the marking of these boundaries-social/religious, law and order, education, and political …
Domestic environments, urban air and climate change
Climate change and the pandemic, each in its own way, has powerfully drawn our attention to the imbrication of human lives with non-humans. In this article, I attempt to address these linkages through a focus on energy use and environment in Indian cities, especially in domestic settings. The introduction section of the article presents its background. The second section discusses weather and the colonial science of climatology in thinking about …
From caste to category: Colonial knowledge practices and the Depressed/Scheduled Castes of Bihar
This article seeks to unpack the administrative and knowledge practices through which the community of Depressed Classes/Scheduled Castes was delineated in colonial Bihar. It does so by examining both the distinctions that were posed between Untouchables and the upper castes, and between them and the Criminal Tribes. Four fields are examined with respect to the marking of these boundaries-social/religious, law and order, education, and political …
From source to sink: ‘Official’ and ‘improved’ water in Delhi, 1868–1956
This article examines the making of a modern colonial city through the rhetoric of ‘improvement’ and ‘progress’ in relation to water. The reference is to the history of water in the city of Delhi and what may be called ‘the first science of environment’ in a colonial urban context, with a focus not so much on the ‘extent’ of water supply and drainage, and its (in)adequacy in the colonial city, as on concerns around the ‘(im)purity’ of water, narr…
A river and the riverfront: Delhi’s Yamuna as an in-between space
Domestic environments, urban air and climate change
Climate change and the pandemic, each in its own way, has powerfully drawn our attention to the imbrication of human lives with non-humans. In this article, I attempt to address these linkages through a focus on energy use and environment in Indian cities, especially in domestic settings. The introduction section of the article presents its background. The second section discusses weather and the colonial science of climatology in thinking about …
Pollution Is Colonialism
David Livingstone’s The Empire of Climate: A History of An Idea
Clean Kitchens and Ventilated Homes: Towards a History of Breathing in Modern India
Water Governance and Infrastructure (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)