Ajay Skaria
Biographic Data
| ID | 120035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ajay Skaria |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ajay |
| FAMILY NAME | Skaria |
| SIGNATURE | SKARIA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twin Cities Orthopedics |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gaza and the Unsettling Equality of Academic Freedom
In June 2024, the University of Minnesota withdrew its offer of appointment to Professor Raz Segal to head the university's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Drawing on the Segal case, this essay offers a conceptual and philosophical history of academic freedom especially in US universities. What makes the principle of academic freedom so charged is that it is not only the institutional manifestation of the very principle of the modern u…
The Subaltern and the Minor
In conversation with the work of Qadri Ismail, this essay explores the figure of the minor. It suggests that Ismail and others have given that figure a distinctive torsion by imbuing it with the moral aspiration for a freedom and equality no longer centered on sovereignty and autonomy. That aspiration is not new; in parallax ways, both Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi strive for such a freedom and equality. The aspiration is also an implicit…
Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South
The opening and obscuring of nonwilling freedom
A response from the author to the views expressed by Dwaipayan Banerjee, Prathama Banerjee, Aishwary Kumar, and Uday Singh Mehta in their reviews of Unconditional Equality
Ambedkar, Marx and the Buddhist Question
This essay tries to frame one question, which at its most abbreviated can be posed thus: why does Ambedkar convert to Buddhism? Given Ambedkar's militant secularism, to ask this question is also to ask: what assumption of responsibility does that conversion enable which exceeds secular responsibility? This essay tracks how Ambedkar's religion questions both the liberal concept of minority, and the dissolution of the minor that is staged in Marx's…
Can the Dalit articulate a universal position?’
The term intellectual, whether understood as a certain kind of human or as a social activity, is marked by a striking tension between a claim to universality and searching questions about what that
Relinquishing republican democracy
Gandhi is famously hostile to republican democracy (schematically, majority rule that systematically provides for division of powers and rule of law in order to protect minorities, and the abstract equality of citizens). For him, in such an order of general responsibility, or responsibility organized in accordance with the measure of the judge as the 'third party', the practice of responsibility becomes inseparable from domination. For him, every…
Only one word, properly altered
In a foreword in 1919 to the first Indian edition in English of Indian Home Rule (as many early English translations of Hind Swaraj were titled), Gandhi wrote: if I had to revise it, there is only
Another World
24Historically Speaking · November/December 2004 Another World Ajay Skaria In his characteristically thought-provoking and wide-ranging essay,Joseph Miller has attempted nothingless than a reformulation ofthe terms on which world history is to be thought. He asks (ifI may restate his argument ): What is this "world" that world history is concerned with? Can another world be thought? AsMiller's essaysuggests, this "world" is conventionally underst…
The Local Life of Nationhood
What characterises many studies that invoke the local can be described as a logic of transcendence. This logic of transcendence does not reject nor disregard the local. Rather, it affirms the centrality of the local. At the same time, the focus is on how the local is historically transcended into higher levels of generality and abstraction; the argument is that only through attention to these higher levels that the meanings of the local become cl…
Viewed from the Locality
Gandhi's Politics
Research Article| October 01 2002 Gandhi's Politics: Liberalism and the Question of the Ashram Ajay Skaria Ajay Skaria Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2002) 101 (4): 955–986. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-101-4-955 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…
Homeless in Gujarat and India
Cathecting the Natural
Cathecting the Natural
Being jangli
The Witch Hunt, or, the Triumph of of Morality
The Witch Hunt, or, the Triumph of Morality. F. G. Bailey. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994. ix. 221 pp., photographs, Index
Women, Witchcraft and Gratuitous Violence in Colonial Western India
WOMEN, WITCHCRAFT AND GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE IN COLONIAL WESTERN INDIA Get access Ajay Skaria Ajay Skaria University of VirginiaCharlottesville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 155, Issue 1, May 1997, Pages 109–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/155.1.109 Published: 01 May 1997
Shades of Wildness Tribe, Caste, and Gender in Western India
A partir de divers exemples juridiques relatifs a la mise a mort de femmes accusees de sorcellerie au cours de la periode coloniale dans l'Ouest de l'Inde, l'A. montre que les meurtriers ne relevaient pas de la justice locale mais d'autorites hierarchiquement superieures et dependantes du pouvoir colonial. Les administrateurs britanniques consideraient que ces crimes, parmi les tribus Dangis, n'etaient pas des fautes graves et etaient dus a la co…
Shades of Wildness Tribe, Caste, and Gender in Western India
A partir de divers exemples juridiques relatifs a la mise a mort de femmes accusees de sorcellerie au cours de la periode coloniale dans l'Ouest de l'Inde, l'A. montre que les meurtriers ne relevaient pas de la justice locale mais d'autorites hierarchiquement superieures et dependantes du pouvoir colonial. Les administrateurs britanniques consideraient que ces crimes, parmi les tribus Dangis, n'etaient pas des fautes graves et etaient dus a la co…
Gandhi's Politics
Research Article| October 01 2002 Gandhi's Politics: Liberalism and the Question of the Ashram Ajay Skaria Ajay Skaria Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2002) 101 (4): 955–986. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-101-4-955 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…
The Local Life of Nationhood
What characterises many studies that invoke the local can be described as a logic of transcendence. This logic of transcendence does not reject nor disregard the local. Rather, it affirms the centrality of the local. At the same time, the focus is on how the local is historically transcended into higher levels of generality and abstraction; the argument is that only through attention to these higher levels that the meanings of the local become cl…
Being jangli
Women, Witchcraft and Gratuitous Violence in Colonial Western India
WOMEN, WITCHCRAFT AND GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE IN COLONIAL WESTERN INDIA Get access Ajay Skaria Ajay Skaria University of VirginiaCharlottesville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 155, Issue 1, May 1997, Pages 109–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/155.1.109 Published: 01 May 1997
Ambedkar, Marx and the Buddhist Question
This essay tries to frame one question, which at its most abbreviated can be posed thus: why does Ambedkar convert to Buddhism? Given Ambedkar's militant secularism, to ask this question is also to ask: what assumption of responsibility does that conversion enable which exceeds secular responsibility? This essay tracks how Ambedkar's religion questions both the liberal concept of minority, and the dissolution of the minor that is staged in Marx's…
Relinquishing republican democracy
Gandhi is famously hostile to republican democracy (schematically, majority rule that systematically provides for division of powers and rule of law in order to protect minorities, and the abstract equality of citizens). For him, in such an order of general responsibility, or responsibility organized in accordance with the measure of the judge as the 'third party', the practice of responsibility becomes inseparable from domination. For him, every…
Another World
24Historically Speaking · November/December 2004 Another World Ajay Skaria In his characteristically thought-provoking and wide-ranging essay,Joseph Miller has attempted nothingless than a reformulation ofthe terms on which world history is to be thought. He asks (ifI may restate his argument ): What is this "world" that world history is concerned with? Can another world be thought? AsMiller's essaysuggests, this "world" is conventionally underst…
Homeless in Gujarat and India
Women, Witchcraft and Gratuitous Violence in Colonial Western India
WOMEN, WITCHCRAFT AND GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE IN COLONIAL WESTERN INDIA Get access Ajay Skaria Ajay Skaria University of VirginiaCharlottesville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 155, Issue 1, May 1997, Pages 109–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/155.1.109 Published: 01 May 1997
Shades of Wildness Tribe, Caste, and Gender in Western India
A partir de divers exemples juridiques relatifs a la mise a mort de femmes accusees de sorcellerie au cours de la periode coloniale dans l'Ouest de l'Inde, l'A. montre que les meurtriers ne relevaient pas de la justice locale mais d'autorites hierarchiquement superieures et dependantes du pouvoir colonial. Les administrateurs britanniques consideraient que ces crimes, parmi les tribus Dangis, n'etaient pas des fautes graves et etaient dus a la co…
Being jangli
The Witch Hunt, or, the Triumph of of Morality
The Witch Hunt, or, the Triumph of Morality. F. G. Bailey. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994. ix. 221 pp., photographs, Index
Cathecting the Natural
Cathecting the Natural
Homeless in Gujarat and India
The Local Life of Nationhood
What characterises many studies that invoke the local can be described as a logic of transcendence. This logic of transcendence does not reject nor disregard the local. Rather, it affirms the centrality of the local. At the same time, the focus is on how the local is historically transcended into higher levels of generality and abstraction; the argument is that only through attention to these higher levels that the meanings of the local become cl…
Viewed from the Locality
Gandhi's Politics
Research Article| October 01 2002 Gandhi's Politics: Liberalism and the Question of the Ashram Ajay Skaria Ajay Skaria Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2002) 101 (4): 955–986. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-101-4-955 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…
Another World
24Historically Speaking · November/December 2004 Another World Ajay Skaria In his characteristically thought-provoking and wide-ranging essay,Joseph Miller has attempted nothingless than a reformulation ofthe terms on which world history is to be thought. He asks (ifI may restate his argument ): What is this "world" that world history is concerned with? Can another world be thought? AsMiller's essaysuggests, this "world" is conventionally underst…
Only one word, properly altered
In a foreword in 1919 to the first Indian edition in English of Indian Home Rule (as many early English translations of Hind Swaraj were titled), Gandhi wrote: if I had to revise it, there is only
Relinquishing republican democracy
Gandhi is famously hostile to republican democracy (schematically, majority rule that systematically provides for division of powers and rule of law in order to protect minorities, and the abstract equality of citizens). For him, in such an order of general responsibility, or responsibility organized in accordance with the measure of the judge as the 'third party', the practice of responsibility becomes inseparable from domination. For him, every…
Can the Dalit articulate a universal position?’
The term intellectual, whether understood as a certain kind of human or as a social activity, is marked by a striking tension between a claim to universality and searching questions about what that
Ambedkar, Marx and the Buddhist Question
This essay tries to frame one question, which at its most abbreviated can be posed thus: why does Ambedkar convert to Buddhism? Given Ambedkar's militant secularism, to ask this question is also to ask: what assumption of responsibility does that conversion enable which exceeds secular responsibility? This essay tracks how Ambedkar's religion questions both the liberal concept of minority, and the dissolution of the minor that is staged in Marx's…
The opening and obscuring of nonwilling freedom
A response from the author to the views expressed by Dwaipayan Banerjee, Prathama Banerjee, Aishwary Kumar, and Uday Singh Mehta in their reviews of Unconditional Equality
Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South
The Subaltern and the Minor
In conversation with the work of Qadri Ismail, this essay explores the figure of the minor. It suggests that Ismail and others have given that figure a distinctive torsion by imbuing it with the moral aspiration for a freedom and equality no longer centered on sovereignty and autonomy. That aspiration is not new; in parallax ways, both Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi strive for such a freedom and equality. The aspiration is also an implicit…
Gaza and the Unsettling Equality of Academic Freedom
In June 2024, the University of Minnesota withdrew its offer of appointment to Professor Raz Segal to head the university's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Drawing on the Segal case, this essay offers a conceptual and philosophical history of academic freedom especially in US universities. What makes the principle of academic freedom so charged is that it is not only the institutional manifestation of the very principle of the modern u…
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